With QuickType, Apple wants to do more than guess your next text. It wants to give you an AI.

Your next iPhone will be even better at guessing what you want to type before you type it. Or so say the technologists at Apple. Let's say you use the word "play" in a text message. In the latest version of the iOS mobile operating system, "we can tell the difference between the Orioles who are playing in the playoffs and the children who are playing in the park, automatically," Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi said Monday morning during his keynote at the company's annual Worldwide Developer Conference. Like a lot of big tech companies, Apple is deploying deep neural networks, networks of hardware and software that can learn by analyzing vast amounts of data.