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Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

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Post by soco » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 9:50 AM UTC

effingwewt wrote: post #304

KeytarHero wrote: post #265

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Exactly. Ask customers "do you want AI in your phone?" and their response will probably be "meh", as shown in the article. But ask "do you want notification summaries, a better camera in low light, Siri to be able to look up more things, searchable photos, etc?" - and they absolutely will.

Lol no one i know wants any of the things you mentioned. Normies hate the AI hypetrain bullshit.

Actually I like all those, but I don't care whether they are with AI or not. So slapping AI on them is a definite "meh" for me, show me results not trendy labels.

Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

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Post by consteval » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 2:19 PM UTC

itsoktocry wrote: post #146

dylan604 wrote: post #135

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Yeah, it seems based on the advertising from the various AI vendors, they are showing its use by summarizing emails/phone call/etc. Things like being able to search text messages for info blah blah. The only one I've seen pushing online searches is Google, but that seems like duh! for them to be pushing. Circle something in an image and take me to a listing of that something for sale. Of course that's Google's direct…

> But that whole find me something on my mutliple gigabytes of storage on my device account definitely seems like the mass appeal This is such a mundane use of AI, but unsurprising Apple would sell it as revolutionary.

It's not very mundane, it's quite difficult to search for things when you don't know exactly what the thing is. Computers are laughably bad at this. I can tell a friend to find something in my room and give a vague description of the object. But with a file on my computer, I need to know actual content in the file. And images or video? Forget about it, if you don't remember part of the filename or what subdirectory it's in then it's gone.

Re: Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

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Post by alt227 » Sun, Nov 03, 2024, 6:31 PM UTC

immibis wrote: post #333

alt227 wrote: post #256

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When something is called CarPlay and actively marketed as a way to use your phone services whilst driving, you would expect it to have a good enough UX that doesnt detract from safe driving to use it.

The law doesn't care what marketing you received and neither does physics. Don't crash your car over a radio.

I didnt, I wont, and nor did the parent post. You seem to have conjured up a scenario just to be condescending. Dont do that. CarPlay or anything else designed to use while driving should never fail to the point of distracting the driver. If it does, its broken and not fit for market.

IMO in this instance, Sirri should have recognised that CarPlay was activated, that it had not got an answer it recognised multiple times in a row, and failed safe saying 'Pull over to continue' or something like that. Hiding the current navigation map and asking the same question over and over again to the point of distraction shows the system is not fit for pupose and shouldnt be used whilst driving.