Asking as it seems nobody wants one based on the reception of the Pixel 9

  • ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Imo, the current meaning for AI is just another way for companies to take even more of your data and embed more invasive technologies.

    Edit: No thanks

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I use AI all the time. The ability to select text and images from a screenshot or the app switcher is pretty useful for when apps refuse to implement selection themselves. My keyboard also allows me to type much faster than when I try to be as precise as I need to be with unassisted keyboards. Plus, photos captured without image enhancement look terrible (and nothing like what you’re seeing in real life). Firefox translate has also finally hit Android and it’s been pretty good so far. Google Translate has worked offline for a while as well but it’s not as good as normal Google translate I believe.

    I don’t use text generation much (although I do use it accidentally now that it’s replaced Assistant) and the photo editing tools are mostly gimmicks to me, though I can see their actual use.

    If Google can give me all of this existing stuff while using less battery life because of the NPU, it’d be pretty happy.

    • zelnix@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Selecting text from images has nothing to do with AI and predates the AI hype craze.

      • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • zelnix@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Wrong. People like you are exactly what is wrong with the overhype in IT

          • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Just FYI, I’m pretty sure you’re confusing “AI” and “AGI”.

            Even enemy behavior is videogames is “AI”, but obviously is not “General Intelligence”.

            I think the problem is Hollywood confusing the two terms, so people think AI = Skynet, but that’s not the technical definition in Computer Science.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’d love to know what an “AI phone” actually means, given that AI is the hottest buzzword to slap on everything since “blockchain”.

    Does it mean it just connects to chat gpt? Does it run a chatbot locally? Does it do image generation and deep fakes? Does it monitor all my activity to recommend stuff google now style? Does it create a realistic personality I’ll fall in love with like in the movie “her”? What does it mean‽