Pocket Robots

Apple just upped its IQ.

The iCompany debuted its long-awaited Apple Intelligence update Monday––its first venture into AI tools for newer iPhones, iPads, and Macs. After updating their software, users can join a quick waitlist in Settings… and just minutes later, they’ll have their own friendly pocket robot.

The initial A(pple)I features include Writing Tools (make your text sound friendlier!! or more professional); summaries of the 87 group text notifications you missed; a tool to remove unwanted photobombs; and a glowed-up, more conversational Siri that can do things like “find that picture I took with a giraffe last year.”

Apple plans to release Genmoji (custom emojis) and Image Playground (a place to create AI-generated cartoon images) in December, likely in the iOS 18.2 update.

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CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Whether you’re thrilled by innovation or intimidated by new threats, live with joy and pursue holiness because believers already know how this story ends. Technology will never outsmart God or thwart his plan to renew and glorify all who are in Christ. 

“But based on his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found without spot or blemish in his sight, at peace.” 
2 Peter 3:13-14 (CSB) (read full passage)