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I took Apple Visual Intelligence to an art gallery to be my tour guide — here’s how it turned out

I took Apple Visual Intelligence to an art gallery to be my tour guide — here’s how it turned out

Apple Visual intelligence provides iPhone 16 owners with a convenient and universal tool for studying the surrounding world. Demonstrations from Apple at the iPhone 16 launch in September demonstrated this with examples of identifying a dog’s breed or learning about a concert from a poster—experiences similar to my initial tests using iOS 18.2 beta. But I decided to look elsewhere for a more rigorous test of visual intelligence.

If Visual Intelligence is meant to tell you about unfamiliar things in front of you by providing context you wouldn’t necessarily get otherwise, then trying it out on some paintings seems like the perfect application. Paintings are a visual medium with all kinds of angles from which to look at them, but if you don’t have a degree in fine arts, it can be difficult to approach. After recently visiting London’s Tate Britain gallery, I tried to change that.