Writing tools are good enough for me to drop Grammarly. I have difficulties with punctuation in first draft and Grammarly is extremely insistent on itself.
I do hope we get other LLM bots beyond ChatGPT. I am partial to Copilot myself. I know the underlying tech is ChatGPT but I find Sam Altman to be a sociopath and the alternatives are google and meta.
I suspect we will see Apple working with other companies over the next few years. My needs are simple so I had not tried ChatGPT, etc. until Google added Gemini 1.5 as a standard feature to Google Workspace a couple of weeks ago.
It’s still early days for consumer AI. While I’m not in interested in the phones, I’ll be watching the reviews of the new Samsung Galaxy models see what people think of the technology available today.
I think one of the more interesting features is the ability to create custom emojis. Really neat feature which is totally integrated with the rest of the ecosystem including photos:
Thanks for the reminder about the ability to record and transcribe calls. I just used it for a call about an insurance error, and it worked a treat.
The transcription isn’t perfect, but it’s more than good enough to have a good understanding and record of what was said (especially since I also have the audio). The summary attached to the audio is spot on.
Revisiting this after the news broke that Apple was further delaying Siri improvements. I was a surprised/disappointed by this episode. To be blunt, I feel like David/Stephen were delicately dancing around the elephant in the room: Apple Intelligence just isn’t good right now. They seemed to come to that same conclusion exploring each individual facet, but didn’t want to actually say it.
So far it’s been underwhelming/half-baked implementations that are fairly far behind the competition or promises that still don’t exist and don’t appear to be coming soon.
As I recall they prefaced their review with statements about it being ‘early days’ then pointed out changes, etc. they hoped to see later in the program.
They are Apple enthusiasts and so are many/most of their listeners. And I’m sure some of them think Apple can do no wrong. So I think they can be forgiven for not calling BS on some things.
OTOH, I’m a cranky old man who has been suspicious of some of Apple’s claims like being able to keep our email secure and private when they summarize them on their Private Cloud Compute. So my BS detector has been active since WWDC, but I’ve not said a lot because I enjoy being part of this forum. 
I’m confident that as long as one sticks to Apple-related topics—no matter how loosely—and remains respectful toward individuals, they can critique Apple freely. After all, it’s just a tech company made up of fallible human beings. Its employees, like anyone else, are capable of both mistakes and bad faith. Being a fan and a realist aren’t mutually exclusive—so go for it. 
When it comes to Apple Intelligence, I suspect Apple has made mistakes (Apple Playground is terrible!) and, at times, operated in bad faith.