Apple Intelligence is essentially a snazzy brand name for Apple's new-found focus on AI, triggered by the huge success of the ChatGPT. Here's a look at some of the best features of Apple Intelligence, which comes to the UK via the new iOS 18.2 operating system. Surely the biggest part of Apple Intelligence is the integration of OpenAI's hugely popular chatbot ChatGPT with Siri, Apple's in-built virtual assistant. With better'language-understanding capabilities' enabled by ChatGPT, Siri will help you across multiple apps and'accelerate everyday tasks', Apple said. You'll be able to press and hold the side button to activate Siri as normal, but with ChatGPT behind it Siri will be able to'answer thousands of questions about how to do something' that it couldn't before.

Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate drudgery at the workplace. At its "Future of Work" event, the company has revealed an AI-powered Microsoft 365 Copilot that, as suggested by leaks, can create content in Office apps using text requests. You can ask PowerPoint to create a presentation based on a Word document, for example, and even get it to apply animations or styles across all your slides. Other apps have similar functionality. Word can create a proposal based on spreadsheet data, or change a report's entire tone.

Like lots of people who've cut cable TV, I couldn't have done it without Netflix. For a fraction of a typical cable bill, Netflix provides more TV shows, movies, and comedy specials than I have time to watch. And while I sometimes turn to other streaming services (and my over-the-air antenna) for specific content, most evenings I'll just thumb through the Netflix app until I find something that grabs my attention. Apart from not supporting 4K resolution or a voice-control remote control, Roku's latest streaming stick delivers the best price/performance ratio of any media-streaming device on the market. This is precisely how Netflix wants people to behave.

Apple's Siri has a fantastic yet little-understood feature that brings a little artificial intelligence into every iOS user's life. Here is how to use it. Apple calls this feature Proactive and makes it mainly available through Siri. Proactive is context-based artificial intelligence solution the company intends will become more powerful than Google Now and more private than any other solution out there – even Royalty should be able to use it without being spied upon (and, by extension, anyone should enjoy equal levels of privacy). You access it using Siri and it can do things like show you photos you took last month to reminding you to do things when you get into or out of your car.