Apple is allegedly planning to take its Artificial Intelligence game to an all-new level an AI-powered iPhone chip.
In a race to catch up with the competition at Amazon and Google, Apple has a team of engineers working on a new piece of silicon that’s dedicated to processing artificial intelligence commands which could lead to improved battery life.
“Apple is working on a processor devoted specifically to AI-related tasks,” reports Bloomberg. “The chip, known internally as the Apple Neural Engine, would improve the way the company’s devices handle tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence.”
Facial and speech recognition will be the main tasks the chip is devoted to, according to the site’s sources. Future iPhone prototypes with the Apple Neural Engine are already in testing.
It’s unclear if the chip will make it onto the iPhone 8. Considering super-powered Siri is supposed to be one of the devices main features, it seems like though.
Bt offloading tasks like facial recognition in photos, speech recognition with Siri, and predictive keyboard function to the Apple Neural Engine, iPhones and iPads integrated with the chip should see a big boost in battery life. Apple plans to give developers access to the chip too so that third-party apps can offload AI tasks onto it.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
4 responses to “Apple is developing a special AI chip for iPhone”
Hopefully you can still use Siri in cellular deadlines or when the airwaves are flooded.
You almost got a point there. I would of probably said something a tiny bit similar, before Apples lattice Dark data purchase. The fact is that, after that purchase, Apple will have the most usable data out there. All that data that Googles been collecting, and Amazon, and Microsoft are also collecting, only account for 20-30% of the structured data out there. Lattice is able to convert all the rest of the other 70-80% of unstructured data into usable structured data, and it’s said that there the only company known to do so. Even Google was eyeing them for a purchase, but was beat to it by Apple. Google even hired one of the lower level guys that worked for the company. Apple may end up being able to collect the majority of data that exists, and just say that there collecting Dark Data. This purchase may have been one of Apple’s most important, in a long time.
Isn’t this how SkyNet started? Haven’t we learned anything from Jon Connor’s warnings? Our phones are going to gain consciousness, become self aware, see us as a threat to their existence and will create a network that will use our own weapons against us to wipe-our mankind.
Or they’ll just make some kick-ass phones, either/or…