Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
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Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#2Never mind AI, I just want Siri to have better text-to-speech quality than my freaking vacuum cleaner.
Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#3I have a hard time seeing how this isn't obvious. 95% of everyday AI needs (for the people that even bother to interact with it) are covered by ChatGPT, and most of that is the same stuff that Google was handling before.
From personal experience, the only thing that changed when replacing the "old" Google Assistant with the Gemini-powered one on my Pixel was that it's no longer able to create reminders.
Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#4For it to have value they need to effectively apply it for something useful and have it be reliable, not just go hey we have llms. like if i could say siri share my location with my wife and text her "im on my way" oh and send her a pic of what im looking at through my sunglasses. And it worked 99% of the time, and could figure out to do it through google maps because she has android, that would be great.
Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#5I'd rather have flagship specs in a smaller package. The smallest in the iPhone (SE) and Pixel ("A"?) lines are still too big and tend to have previous-gen specs
Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#6Alternate hed: 99% of smartphone buyers have no idea which features are supported by machine inference.
Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#7Alternate hed: 99% of smartphone buyers have no idea which features are supported by machine inference.
99% of smartphone buyers have no idea what machine inference is.
Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#8Never mind AI, I just want Siri to have better text-to-speech quality than my freaking vacuum cleaner.
That’s AI though…
Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#9I would pay extra to -not- have AI in my phone. AI belongs on mainframes, out of my way when I don't want it.
Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life
#10My opinion is that most of the real uses of AI (like ML has always been) will be largely hidden things that are LLM based but not screaming at your face "AI". Particularly once the bubble pops and money stops being shoved into things just sticking an LLM in a pretty package with little to no value.
Some of the things coming in iOS like notification summaries and similar features are big examples. It's clearly LLM based but it's not a lot of the shoving AI needlessly into things that we are seeing now and provides a true improvement given the notification overload that we have right now.