Asking as it seems nobody wants one based on the reception of the Pixel 9
I do use text generation whenever I’m doing a simple small bit of coding on hobby projects and want to write a function without navigating pages of stackoverflow for the right syntax. Although even then, I rarely actually am able to use the function without some form of slight adjustments
Selecting text from images has nothing to do with AI and predates the AI hype craze.
Err… That’s definitively AI.
AI is just any computer algorithm that does a task that would be aimed to require human intelligence.
Identifying text in an image is a non-trivial task, so OCR is a type of AI algorithm.
That said, I assume “AI phones” are probably not using the term AI in the general sense; presumably they just mean that it uses MM-LLMs somehow.
Part of the problem is the Pixel phone, I mean that’s been a problem ever since it came out. Sometimes it’s alright but there’s a lot of people that have bought a Pixel & regretted it. My brother in law being one of many. I can say with relative confidence, Google Pixel phones have had so many problems & lack of support, I’m sure everybody reading this knows somebody with Google Pixel buyer’s remorse. Or maybe they are that person.
This is a well-earned reputation. So yeah I can believe people aren’t jumping at the P9.
The AI part is just another reason to not buy a Google Pixel phone.
I for one would like a local AI assistant of some sort, but I’d also want to be in full control of which of my files, correspondences, locations, contacts, purchases and sex-toys the assistant is aware of on an item to item basis.
Of course that’s not going to happen because fuck my privacy.
Instead we’re going to be forcefed something extremely privacy-invasive, which will really just be a new vehicle for selling stuff to us that we don’t need and eventually it will leak all of the data.
you can.make a local ai homeserver and access it remotely from your phone.mahbe even tie it to some automation features idk
Your average smartphone user definitely can’t. I mght, but I strongly doubt it is worth the effort for now.
I might have before, but I’m across the country from Silicon Valley now and they are probably cooking in three-figure heat while their ZYBERTRUKKKS are falling apart from just existing. They still love the truck though!
Yes and no.
I could see a free public AI tool for medical or legal use being potentially extremely valuable. But it’ll never happen for the same reason self-driving cars will never happen: humans are allowed to be fallible but computers are not.
I could see an actually-functional AI assistant being potentially extremely valuable.
I am sure there are other potential use-cases but as of yet none of these things have materialized.
Their greatest value will be to pump-and-dump investors. And AI hardware producers. This craze has launched Nvidia into the stratosphere.
