Idea for Apple Intelligence memory consolidation on iOS

First read the Unsolicited Idea Submission policy by Apple, which is similar to those of other companies. Yes, there are people who attempt to sue companies for implementation of a feature that they claim was their idea, so the policies are pretty common and necessary.

Legal - Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy - Apple

If you are still compelled to send Feedback on any feature in iOS, you would do that here:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

The typical approach would be through Acquisition of a company that has developed a technology that Apple is interested in. That requires much more than an idea, it would actually be a proof of concept with the technology currently in use where Apple can see and verify the benefits.

That’s more commonly called data deduplication, and it’s a very common technique.

There are tradeoffs arising with deduplication, including performance and privacy.

Techniques of data deduplication were taught some forty years ago, and probably further back. This was with systems featuring 32 KW or 16 KB or less memory, meaning de-duplication, hash tables, so-called “bumming code”, and other techniques for reducing usage were all common.

I expect a forest of patents exist here, too.

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Thanks for the feedback. I wasn’t familiar with data deduplication or the earlier techniques you mentioned, so that’s actually useful information for me. The Apple policy point is useful too. What I’m really interested in is how those existing concepts could potentially be applied to Apple Intelligence’s memory system—essentially giving Siri a way to organize and consolidate the memories it already has permission to retain so it can reference them more efficiently. The underlying mechanism could be whatever Apple determines works best; the idea is the improved memory organization itself.

wjones30309 wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. I wasn’t familiar with data deduplication or the earlier techniques you mentioned, so that’s actually useful information for me. The Apple policy point is useful too. What I’m really interested in is how those existing concepts could potentially be applied to Apple Intelligence’s memory system—essentially giving Siri a way to organize and consolidate the memories it already has permission to retain so it can reference them more efficiently. The underlying mechanism could be whatever Apple determines works best; the idea is the improved memory organization itself.

There’s a Harvard online course on computing and related topics, including data structures. Maybe that helps?

Harvard CS50x:

https://www.edx.org/cs50

Here’s an intro to data structures:

https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/weeks/5/

There’s a Harvard CS50 AI course available, as well:

https://www.edx.org/learn/artificial-intelligence/harvard-university-cs50-s-introduction-to-artificial-intelligence-with-python

As for topics and implementations of information storage and retrieval, that might involve a key-value store, a hash table of some sort, a linked list, or any of an assortment of other data structures, with some implementation choices dependent on other factors including scale and scope and frequency.

And the whether and the how of data de-dup is implemented can vary, as can oft-related overhead from garbage collection.

Hardware details matter, too. De-dup isn’t as helpful if the only copy of the data is not local, for instance. Do a remote access or cache miss or storage access or memory compression too often, and the expected savings can evaporate. (I don’t think any current Apple silicon Mac is NUMA, so there's that.)

Trade-offs are everywhere.

abdelrahim96 wrote:

I can not found Apple Intelligence in m’y phone iPhone 17 pro Max modèle CH/A

You don't have it on that model. No iPhones intended for China distribution are allowed to have that capability.

In the future, instead of hijacking a post from another user about something that is completely unrelated to the question they asked, you should create your own question using the link on the top of the page that says Ask the Community. That way you give the original poster the respect they deserve to have their issue addressed.

I can not found Apple Intelligence in m’y phone iPhone 17 pro Max modèle CH/A

😂😂😂No offense taken on my part; I understand how they could have made that mistake because I had difficulty figuring out the posting/reply mechanics myself.