Apple has been granted a patent for a “Digital Assistant For Providing Real-time Social Intelligence” that likely involves features in the upcoming Siri AI (which is now in beta testing).
About Siri AI
At this month’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple debuted Siri AI, an entirely new version of Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence.
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, said it was a “profoundly more capable and conversational assistant with personal context understanding, broad world knowledge, and onscreen awareness” that can help users find what they need in the moment, from answering questions from the web on virtually any topic, to surfacing relevant information from a user’s personal messages, emails, photos, and more.
Siri AI also includes a dedicated app for users to revisit conversations across their products, an expanded Visual Intelligence experience, and integrated tools for writing. With a new architecture designed to protect users’ privacy, Siri AI leverages the next generation of Apple Intelligence to bring state-of-the-art understanding and reasoning, along with powerful systemwide capabilities, to Apple’s operating systems, according to Federighi. These features are available for developer testing starting today, and will be available as a beta to users later this year.
About the patent
The patent relates generally to intelligent digital assistants and, more specifically, for providing real-time social intelligence for accommodating social engagements. In it Apple notes that intelligent automated assistants (or digital assistants) can provide a beneficial interface between human users and electronic devices.
Such assistants can allow users to interact with devices or systems via natural language input in spoken, textual, visual interactions or other forms. For instance, a user can issue a request to a digital assistant operating on an electronic device (e.g., portable multifunctional devices such as a mobile phones, laptop computers, tablet computers, gaming devices, streaming media devices, digital video recorders, etc.).
In response to the request, the digital assistant can respond based on available information to the digital assistant. Apple’s idea is that, while interacting with the user, the digital assistant may further monitor and accommodate real-time social engagements of the user with other human(s).
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “This relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to provide real-time social intelligence. An example method includes while providing one or more outputs to a user of the electronic device, determining whether the user is in an engaged state based on: detecting a human in a near-field scene of the user, determining that the user is gazing at the human, and detecting a speech input from at least one of the user or the human while the user is gazing at the human. In response to determining that the user is in the engaged state, foregoing providing the one or more outputs to the user while the user is in the engaged state.”
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