Apple Readies AI Tool To Rival Microsoft's GitHub Copilot (businessinsider.com) 18
According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple plans to release a generative AI tool for iOS app developers as early as this year. Insider reports: The tech giant is working on a tool that will use artificial intelligence to write code as part of its plans to expand the capabilities of Xcode, the company's main programming software. The revamped system will compete withÂMicrosoft's GitHub Copilot, which sources say operates similarly. Apple is also working on an AI tool that will generate code to test apps, which could provide potential time savings for a process that's known to be tedious. Currently, Apple is urging some engineers to test these new AI features to ensure they work before releasing them externally to developers. [...]
The tech giant, Bloomberg has learned, has plans to integrate AI features into its next software updates for its iPhone and iPad known internally as Crystal. Glow, another internal AI project, is slated to be added to MacOS. The company is also building features that will generate Apple Music playlists and slideshows, according to the outlet. An AI-powered search feature titled Spotlight, currently limited to answering questions around launching apps, is in the works as well, Bloomberg reported.
The tech giant, Bloomberg has learned, has plans to integrate AI features into its next software updates for its iPhone and iPad known internally as Crystal. Glow, another internal AI project, is slated to be added to MacOS. The company is also building features that will generate Apple Music playlists and slideshows, according to the outlet. An AI-powered search feature titled Spotlight, currently limited to answering questions around launching apps, is in the works as well, Bloomberg reported.
You can just smell the mediocre on this (Score:2)
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Forget Copilot, Git support is still iffy in Xcode. So I'd expect this to work about as well as their AI autocorrect that would insert unprintable characters [daringfireball.net] into your text.
Google hasn't had much luck here either (Score:3)
Bard is nowhere close to being able to match suggestions provided by Copilot, and Google has spent a lot more time and money on their AI than Apple has. It's going to be a while, I think.
Re: Google hasn't had much luck here either (Score:2)
Apple's problem space is actually a bit more constrained, I think. They already have millions of lines of code to train against internally and if theyâ(TM)re trying to make the lives of iOS/macOS developers easier, their models will be very good at that specific thing. I suspect the suggestions for general purpose code will merely be average.
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Apple's problem space is actually a bit more constrained, I think. They already have millions of lines of code to train against internally and if theyâ(TM)re trying to make the lives of iOS/macOS developers easier, their models will be very good at that specific thing. I suspect the suggestions for general purpose code will merely be average.
Mods: Insightful, please!
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They already have millions of lines of code to train against internally
And Microsoft already has...GitHub.
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My guess is that there isn't as much iOS-specific Objective-C and Swift code on GitHub. In the general case, Microsoft will be better, 100%. If you're writing an iOS app and need a suggestion, I would bet money that Apple's suggestions through Xcode will be better.
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You might be right, I would be interested to learn what the actual experience will be. Copilot, I have found, is really good even with relatively obscure languages like XSLT, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it's also good with iOS languages.
Good (Score:2)
Nice to hear that Apple's getting ready to do something. It's reassuring for the shareholders.
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What do you mean? Apple always succeeds.
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/s
Crazy idea (Score:2)
You already have a digital assistant brand, Siri. Just make it smarter.
It's what Microsoft should have done with Cortana and Amazon should do with Alexa. Neither of these two have the strong positive brand association that Siri does though.
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You already have a digital assistant brand, Siri. Just make it smarter.
It's what Microsoft should have done with Cortana and Amazon should do with Alexa. Neither of these two have the strong positive brand association that Siri does though.
It seems Apple is also doing just that:
https://www.techradar.com/phon... [techradar.com]
Part of the ground-up rewrite of Siri that Apple has been working on for about a year.
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