Apple Wants to Turn its Watches Into Wearable AI

Despite the general failure of wearable AI devices to win over consumers, and Apple’s own inability to convince people to use its AI tools, the company is apparently going to try to kill two birds with one stone by turning the Apple Watch into an AI-infused wearable. According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on a version of its smartwatch that will be equipped with cameras that will facilitate the expansion of the company’s “visual intelligence” features that are currently only available on the latest model of iPhone. Per Bloomberg, the company is working to shoehorn the lenses into both its Series and Ultra models of the Apple Watch, with the Series expected to have a camera inside its display while the Ultra would have its camera on the side of the watch. Through the extra eye, the watch would be able to tap into the company’s visual intelligence tools, which can do things like identify objects or translate text in a picture. As far as AI functionality goes, real-time translation ha ... Read full article.