Using Generative AI Has Given Me A New Appreciation For Siri and Excited For The Future of Apple Intelligence

I used generative AI this week to find the dimensions of a refrigerator based on the model number. I googled first because of muscle memory but when I could not find what I was looking for immediately  and was given the dimensions of another refrigerator with a similar model number after going through a couple of the first links from Google results..After checking with ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, I quickly found the correct size with AI chats while the search result was wrong. 

I always have my AI chat app or tab in the browser at the ready. I can see myself going to AI for answers more and more as the first option. 

The point is that I have become accustomed to using AI to quickly look for answers and when needed, confirm the results with another AI or search on the Internet. It is a process. And every day, more and more people are actively engaging with AI in their personal and professional lives. In the last two months, I can safely say that I have used AI at least once a day - including Siri. Recently, I have ran out of my free allotments so frequently that I consider paying for one of the services. I'm pretty close to that decision and deciding which AI service I want to pay for. Until I do, I am alternating between ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. 

Again, it is a process. And with Apple Intelligence, I think it will also be a process that will take users many weeks if not months of active use to personalize Apple's AI. 

Here are some of what you can do to get started:

• Just keep using Siri. I'm serious. Use it on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Use it on the Mac. I do not use it as much on the Mac only because a lot of what I use Siri for involves mobile computing, scheduling, and quick queries that are necessarily work related like scores and weather. 
• Open your Photos app and look at the memories it automatically created for you. That is AI generated. 
• Search Spotlight. I am sure it is one of the most widely used features on Apple's platforms. I'll be honest. It is hit and miss even with some improvements on iOS 18 and before the release of Apple Intelligence. When it work, it works well. When it does not or provides inconsistent results, it can be frustration. But it is one of the better features from Apple using ML. 
• Use the camera app - AI is highly integrated into the native camera app on the iPhone. Use it to help you capture your life, for journals, and work. 

Getting used to AI prompts and Siri will help you become more comfortable and even creative in getting the results you want. I think we are only scratching the surface of what we can do with AI now. With better and faster models, including ones from Apple that the future improved Siri will run on, we will one day realized how we live without our AI assistants.