OpenAI shows us how Apple Intelligence works with ChatGPT, which then promptly crashes
- OpenAI demo ChatGPT integration into Apple Intelligence for day five of 12 Days of OpenAI
- The ChatGPT service will then be down, but is now active again
- ChatGPT is poised to play a central role in Apple’s technology
OpenAI‘S 12 days OpenAI day five involved a demo of ChatGPT in collaboration with Apple Intelligence. The demo evoked the holidays by sharing gifts with Apple and wearing Christmas sweaters during the livestream. The announcement tied in with Apple’s release of iOS 18.2 and reminded everyone of that ChatGPT and Apple Intelligence have several deep links. OpenAI’s models make Siri smarter while supporting several new features that Apple introduced on the same day.
Unfortunately, while OpenAI celebrated its Apple integration, the fifth day was a bit marred as the ChatGPT service suffered a significant outage. This meant that if you tried to use ChatGPT, Sora, APIs, or even Dall-E, right after the OpenAI announcement you were faced with a currently unavailable screen or encountered errors when trying to do something. The service is now active again.
Complex questions
Apple presents Apple Intelligence as a way to make its devices more creative and intuitive to use. That includes many apps and tools on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Most notably, the ChatGPT integration with Siri changes the voice assistant in remarkable ways.
The AI helps answer complex questions, allowing Siri to tailor more natural, flowing conversations. Instead of getting short, robotic answers, you can ask detailed questions and get thoughtful, context-aware answers.
The demonstration by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, product team member Miqdad Jaffer, and engineering manager Dave Cummings showed how Siri could use ChatGPT to view and answer questions about documents, with answers coming from Apple’s assistant.
They also showed how you can send information directly to ChatGPT to dive deeper and how Siri can now open various ChatGPT tools like Canvas and DALL-E. The presenters then had Siri review the latest ChatGPT model card, ask the voice assistant about the model’s coding capabilities, and then had Siri send the answer to the ChatGPT app to code a program that visualized these capabilities.
Open AI x Apple
For OpenAI, this partnership is a reminder that ChatGPT is poised to play a central role in mainstream technology. Apple Intelligence makes ChatGPT part of the everyday experience for Apple users. And in return, Apple also gets a better chance to keep up with competitors like Google Gemini and other rivals.
The festive sweaters that the presenters wore also served a demonstration purpose. Using Apple Visual Intelligence, they had Siri incorporate a photo of them into their jerseys and then had ChatGPT, via Apple Visual Intelligence, reward one of them with the best jersey. Altman won.
