Simon Willison’s Weblog

Here Are All of the Apple Intelligence Features in the iOS 18.1 Developer Beta (via) Useful rundown from Juli Clover at MacRumors of the Apple Intelligence features that are available in the brand new iOS 18.1 beta, available to developer account holders with an iPhone 15 or ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ Max or Apple Silicon iPad.

I've been trying this out today. It's still clearly very early, and the on-device model that powers Siri is significantly weaker than more powerful models that I've become used to over the past two years. Similar to old Siri I find myself trying to figure out the sparse, undocumented incantations that reliably work for the things I might want my voice assistant to do for me.

Ethan Mollick:

My early Siri AI experience has just underlined the fact that, while there is a lot of practical, useful things that can be done with small models, they really lack the horsepower to do anything super interesting.