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Apple Announces iOS 18 Beta Update with Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT Integration

• Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
• Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

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• The new beta update including Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT integration is available for developers on iOS 18, macOS Sequoia (15.2), and iPadOS 18
• Developers can test new tools like Genmoji, Apple Intelligence writing tools, Image Playground, and Image Wand
• Next week, all users with compatible devices will be able to access the new features

Apple released updated beta versions of iOS 18, macOS Sequoia (15.2), and iPad 18 including Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT integration this Wednesday.

The tech giant announced the new Apple Intelligence back in June at the WWDC , and in July warned the public that the highly-anticipated technology was not going to be included in the iOS 18 release in September. But, as promised in July, the company is now releasing the beta version in October.

According to CNBC , Apple Intelligence has already been available for selected users in previews and will open to the public next week—developers are getting access to the new beta versions just a few days ahead.

The new update includes writing tools with Apple Intelligence, Apple’s emoji generator Genmoji, and image generator Image Playground, a feature to remove objects from images called Image Wand, and the ChatGPT integration. OpenAI chatbot will assist Siri with users’s requests, but Siri will ask for permission to access the external tool first.

One of the features promoted at the WWDC, Siri’s capability to control devices, is not included in this update but is expected to be released soon.

According to Engadget , developers with iPhone 16s will be able to test the Visual Intelligence which allows users to point cameras at objects and surroundings and get answers and information by interacting with the AI—from a restaurant’s menu to a math problem in a textbook. This feature is also powered by ChatGPT and Google.

Genmoji allows users to create personalized emojis from a prompt or based on a friend’s image. Apple also launched the Genmoji API yesterday, so that third-party messaging platforms can recognize and render users’s creations on other apps like WhatsApp or Telegram.

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Google DeepMind Launches Open-Source Watermark Tool to Help Detect AI-Generated Text

• Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
• Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

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• Google DeepMind launched SynthID-Text, a new free open-source tool
• SynthID technology can now detect AI-generated text, audio, video, and images
• The research was published in Nature with more technical details

Google DeepMind launched an open-source watermark tool called SynthID-Text this Wednesday to help detect AI-generated text. The tool is available to businesses and developers for free and works by embedding invisible watermarks—undetectable to the human eye—into the text during generation, by altering the probabilities of words.

“Here we describe SynthID-Text, a production-ready text watermarking scheme that preserves text quality and enables high detection accuracy, with minimal latency overhead,” states the abstract of the research published in Nature . “To enable watermarking at scale, we develop an algorithm integrating watermarking with speculative sampling, an efficiency technique frequently used in production systems.”

According to MIT Technology Review , the tech giant’s AI research laboratory developed the SynthID technology to create multiple AI watermark tools that can now recognize AI-generated text, music, video, and images. Google DeepMind shared a video explaining how the technology works across multiple types of media.

Here’s how SynthID watermarks AI-generated content across modalities. ↓ pic.twitter.com/CVxgP3bnt2 — Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) October 23, 2024

SynthID is available through the company’s Google Responsible Generative AI Toolkit, and researchers are working along with Hugging Face—a collaborative platform for developers that hosts other open-source projects like LeRobot’s tutorial for building AI-powered robots at home —to share it on their site as well.

“Now, other [generative] AI developers will be able to use this technology to help them detect whether text outputs have come from their own [large language models], making it easier for more developers to build AI responsibly,” said Pushmeet Kohli, the vice president of research at Google DeepMind, to MIT Technology Review.

SynthID has been tested in Google’s Gemini products, and millions of users weren’t able to differentiate between watermarked and non-watermarked content. However, researchers acknowledged that it has limitations when the text has been edited or translated, but they remain optimistic and believe the tool could help combat misinformation and improve AI safety.

Multiple tech companies have been announcing AI-labeling strategies for the past few months. Meta announced in February a system to identify AI content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, Google required users to label AI content in March, and Tiktok added labels to AI-generated content in May.