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How to use Apple's AI Writing Tools
Juice your emails and texts with Apple's impressive AI.
Leander Kahney
January 10, 2025
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I’ve been super-impressed by the ability of AIs like ChatGPT and Perplexity to instantly generate the kind of detailed, written reports that might take a knowledgeable journalist or researcher days to write.
Actually, as a writer, it’s a little scary engaging with the tools of your own professional demise.
However, I continue to hope that generative AI is a new tool for writers — like word processing in the previous era. I hope that generative AI will not replace writers, but make their work easier. For one thing, there’s still the enormous problem of hallucinations, which, for now, you need a knowledgeable human writer/editor to spot and weed out.
The good news for non-writers is that AI’s vastly powerful capabilities have been built right into your iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools are baked into the operating systems, putting impressive capabilities everywhere you use text, from work apps like Pages and Safari to messaging apps such as Messages and Mail. And because the Writing Tools work system-wide, they are also available in most third-party apps and websites.
Here’s how to get the best out of Apple’s free AI Writing Tools.
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(On archrival Bill Gates) I told him I believed every word of what I'd said but that I never should have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
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