2GB's Charlie Brown discusses Apple's new AI feature coming later this year 04:06

Well, if you're like me and have an iPhone, listen up, because Apple has just got a new system update, which will have a whole bunch of new features that include...

You guessed it, artificial intelligence. Charlie Brown, host of 2GB's Life in Technology. He'll give us a lowdown on this. Charlie, g'day. Hey, Chris. It's for the Pro and the Pro Max iPhone 15. And this is the announcement that was made earlier in the year by Apple and will be released publicly in September-ish, maybe late September. Apple

Apple always releases this new operating system version. This one's called iOS 18.1. They always release it as a beta, so developers can go download it onto a clean iPhone because obviously you're installing a brand new operating system onto it, and then they can go play with it, try it out, use the features, see how it goes, report back to Apple. And Apple gets...

they get access to the data of what people are finding doing functions on this software as well. So what is being discovered and being talked about by some developers now, you're going to get in September timeframe if you've got the right hardware or if you get the next...

iPhone when that's announced about the same time. But really, if you've used... I think the best example is to look at something like ChatGPT, the service that rewrites...

articles or all sorts of things that you might be working on. That technology is essentially going to be built onto the actual handset itself. So for example, Chris, you might write somebody a text message or somebody might send a text message to you. You can just ask the phone to write a reply without actually writing it yourself and the phone will go write it for you based on what has been said in the message you've just received.

as an example. But it doesn't need to go onto the internet to do that. I've always wondered that, right? What's the difference between that and me just giving a voice command? Nothing. You know what I mean? All this stuff...

It's almost like we're doing it because we can do it, but it doesn't necessarily make it any more productive than the tools that we already have on our tech. Yeah. I think if you're... A couple of things. If you get a lot of email at work, right, and you want to have the most important emails put to the top of the list so that you reply to the most important first, and

An AI tool will do that for you based on who has sent you those emails. Now, that's probably going to be a good time-saving function because you may not get through your entire email list in a day. So something like that might work. Something like getting a message and having the tool write the reply for you may not work. So you, Chris, might find things in there that you value and other people might find others valuable.

going to be interesting to see once all this stuff sort of gets onto handsets and PCs and things like that, what people do actually use versus, oh yeah, that's nice. I mean, if you look at Microsoft Office, for example, the productivity tool most of us use, it's got about 80% more features on it than most people actually use on a day-to-day basis. So it's there, but if you don't really sort of need it, you don't go use it, but you still use the tool in some way. John,

Charlie, what's on the show tomorrow? We're talking about a decent router that you can get if you're on NBN and you don't really like your router. That's tomorrow on the show. Plus, heading overseas, the Ultra VPN that will keep you safe while you're travelling and connecting to the internet. We'll go through some of the features you'll get on a product like that. Love your work, Charlie. That's Charlie Brown. You can catch him on Life and Technology tomorrow morning, 8am, right here on 2GB.