You’re looking at the result of me goofing around with Apple’s new application, Playground. It is Apple Intelligence’s interpretation of a robot astronaut in a nighttime winter holiday with fireworks. The weird touch is the robot snowman on the right but far enough back to be bokeh blurred.

Here’s the view of the app on my iPhone 16 that generated the image. I didn’t have to type in anything. All I did was select five of the suggestion bubbles at the bottom, then touch the result bubble in the middle to have that bubble open up into the complete picture at the top of this post.

I’m not impressed with any of this. I recognize the techniques used by Playground in this image as being misappropriated from human artists whose work I’d seen in years past. This is not some creative masterpiece, nor is it creative in the human sense of the word. All I did was select five inputs embodying human artistic talents strip-mined from the wider internet by an LLM, probably the one hosted by OpenAI, and the software did the rest.

I will continue to explore what Apple Intelligence has to offer with the latest iOS and macOS updates. As for this moment, however, I’m done with Playground.