Testing Apple Intelligence Writing Tools, and being impressed

Having yesterday tried out the Siri improvements brought to us in iOS 18.1, I next decided to test the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools: Proofreading, rewriting, and summarizing.Just for fun, I took a recursive approach to the task, and first asked AI to proofread yesterday’s piece …One quick note, I’m using AI in this piece as an acronym for Apple Intelligence rather than Artificial Intelligence (thanks, Apple, for that unending source of confusion …).ProofreadingAI suggested a total of six changes to my piece, of which three were duplicates – adding periods to bullet-point text. Here’s an example:Whether or not to use periods in bullet-points is a stylistic choice – there’s no right or wrong, provided the bullet is just a single sentence. Personally, I think bulleted text looks best without them, and in this particular case I would always want to omit it because a dot at the end of an URL can confuse browsers.However, this is a perfectly reasonable thing to flag, so good job there.Ne...