Apple Goes Intelligent
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, Tim Cook announced Apple was getting into artificial intelligence. Is Apple about to do for A.I. what it did for personal computers and smartphones?
Guest: Gerrit De Vynck, tech reporter for the Washington Post.
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| 0:35.0 | Who's fired up? |
| 0:40.0 | On Monday, as it does every year, Apple rolled out a series of slickly produced videos for its worldwide developers conference. |
| 0:50.0 | Apple likes to go big with its intros and this one showed a bunch of Apple execs |
| 0:55.8 | skydiving over the company's circular California headquarters. |
| 0:59.8 | But the real drama, the thing the audience was waiting for was Tim Cook's announcement |
| 1:05.6 | that Apple was embracing AI. Introducing Apple Intelligence, the new personal |
| 1:12.3 | intelligence system that makes your most personal products even more useful and delightful. |
| 1:18.0 | I think it was a pretty big deal and a pretty big moment for big tech and for the AI boom and the AI |
| 1:26.0 | industry in general. That's Garrett Davenk who covers tech for the Washington Post. |
| 1:31.8 | Apple has always sort of prided itself on doing its own thing. |
| 1:36.0 | They don't like to be lumped in with the likes of Google or Facebook or Amazon. |
| 1:41.4 | They see themselves, you know, making devices and being much more about privacy and |
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