A survey of more than 2,000 smartphone users by second-hand smartphone marketplace SellCell found that 73% of iPhone users and a whopping 87% of Samsung Galaxy users felt that AI adds little to no value to their smartphone experience.
SellCell only surveyed users with an AI-enabled phone – thats an iPhone 15 Pro or newer or a Galaxy S22 or newer. The survey doesn’t give an exact sample size, but more than 1,000 iPhone users and more than 1,000 Galaxy users were involved.
Further findings show that most users of either platform would not pay for an AI subscription: 86.5% of iPhone users and 94.5% of Galaxy users would refuse to pay for continued access to AI features.
From the data listed so far, it seems that people just aren’t using AI. In the case of both iPhone and Galaxy users about two-fifths of those surveyed have tried AI features – 41.6% for iPhone and 46.9% for Galaxy.
So, that’s a majority of users not even bothering with AI in the first place and a general disinterest in AI features from the user base overall, despite both Apple and Samsung making such a big deal out of AI.
Tbf most people have no clue how to use it nor even understand what “AI” even is.
I just taught my mom how to use circle to search and it’s a real game changer for her. She can quickly lookup on-screen items (like plants shes reading about) from an image and the on-screen translation is incredible.
Also circle to search gets around link and text copy blocking giving you back the same freedoms you had on a PC.
Personally I’d never go back to a phone without circle to search - its so under-rated and a giant shift in smartphone capabilities.
Its very likely that we’ll have full live screen reading assistants in the near future which can perform circle to search like functions and even visual modifications live. It’s easy to dismiss this as a gimmick but there’s a lot of incredible potential here especially for casual and older users.
Google Lens already did that though, all you need is decent OCR and an image classification model (which is a precursor to the current “AI” hype, but actually useful).
That is still AI though…
Image classification model isn’t really “AI” the way it’s marketed right now. If Google used an image classification model to give you holiday recommendations or answer general questions, everyone would immediately recognize they use it wrong. But use a token prediction model for purposes totally unrelated to predicting the next token and people are like “ChatGPT is my friend who tells me what to put on pizza and there’s nothing strange about that”.
It is AI in every sense of the word tho. Maybe you’re confusing it with LLM?
Neither LLMs nor ICMs are AI in any sense of the word, is my point. LLMs happen to give the illusion of intelligence because of their language-based nature, but they’re not fundamentally different from ICMs.
Oof
It would have to have a ‘use’ to qualify as anything else. It takes longer to ask it to do anything than it does to just do it yourself. Plus they want you to call it up by their retard brand name, ‘hey, gemini’ or ‘okay, google’ is cringey AF.
I cant wait until you get dumb siri for free but it only tells time and the paid version cost 25 a month but it also sets alarms.
Downvoted for casual use of a slur.
If you’re talking about retard, what would you prefer i use and how long until that word becomes a slur? You know it wasn’t long ago retard was the polite term, and mongoloid before that. It doesn’t matter what word you use, if the meaning has negative connotations, some asshole like you decides to take their turn at policing speech to the benifit of nobody.
In any case, I think you’re you’re wasting your time.
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It became a slur back when I was a child in the 90s because people used it as a general perjorative. Doesn’t help that it once innocently described a vulnerable minority. When cunts like you decided to use it as a slur, they tied said vulnerable minority to the concept of “this thing is bad” and harmed that community.
I’m not policing your speech. I’m calling you a cunt for using a decidedly shitty term that’s been shitty for decades.
Great, well I dont buy any of your arguments as genuine as they might seem, i think you just like feeling superior. So enjoy knowing i dont care.
Never thought you would. The comment wasn’t really for you.
Cop out.
The consumer-side AI that a handful of multi-billion-dollar companies keep peddling to us is just a way for them to attempt to justify AI to us. Otherwise, it consumes MASSIVE amounts of our energy capacities and is primarily being used in ways that harm us.
And, of course, there’s nothing they direct at us that isn’t ultimately (and solely) for their benefit–our every use of their AI helps train their models, and eventually it will simply be groups of billionaires competing against one another to form the most powerful model that allows them to dominate us and their competitors.
As long as this technology remains determined by those whose entire existence is organized around domination, it will be a sum harm to all of us. We’d have to free it from their grips to make it meaningful in our daily lives.
Id take Bixby back over this forced AI crap.
I mean I wouldn’t but you know…
Bixby is the 8th or 9th best kitchen timer I’ve ever accidentally bought.
Everybody hates AI, and these companies keep trying to push it because they’re so desperate for investors. Oh, I want to be a fly on the wall of a meeting room when the bubble finally pops.
I was excited to see what it could do on my iPhones but so far I have not liked anything. The notification summaries are useless, for instance.
I do wonder if AI is being used in the background in ways I don’t see, but I doubt it.
If it is you probably wouldn’t be thrilled to find out how.
Anyone who has been paying attention has been waiting for this enormous bag of shit to explode already.
It actually gets in my way every time it does something so that I have stop what I’m doing to kill it. Would love to be able to uninstall it
I hate it 🤷 I keep it turned off anywhere that I can.
Can it generate weird porn locally?
You can do that all by yourself, no AI needed!
ive seen some weird ai shit floating around, so yea probably
I don’t see how AI can benefit my phone experience.
I use my phone to make phone calls and for text messaging. Where does AI fit in? It doesn’t.
But imagine!!! What if AI could write your text messages for you and convincingly hold phone calls??? Then you wouldn’t have to use your phone to interact with human beings at all!!!
~Why does anyone want this?~
The only Galaxy AI feature I find even a bit amusing is Portrait Studio, which can turn a photo of someone into an AI generated comic or 3D picture. But only as long as it remains free, it’s not something worth paying for.
Artificial Incompetence
Much like certain other trends like 3D TVs, this helps us see how often “visionaries” at the top of a company are charmed by ideas that no one on the ground is interested in. Same with blockchain, cryptocurrency, and so many other buzzwords.
So maybe I’ll mention it again: The Accountable Capitalism Act would require 40% of a company’s board be made up of democratically voted employees, who can provide more practical input about how top-level decisions would affect the people working there.
I can see why people thought 3d tvs were a great idea, until they actually experienced it for themselves. It also didn’t help that so much content wasn’t genuinely shot in 3d, either, but altered in post.
I could actually see 3D TVs taking off, even with the requirement for glasses. At the time, there was a fad for 3D movies in theaters. But, they needed to have gotten with content creators so that there was a reason to own one. There was no content, so no one invested, so probably in a year or two there’s going to be some Youtubers making videos of “I finally found Sony’s forgotten 3D TV.”
The only thing I want AI (on my phone) to do is limit my notifications and make calendar events for me. I don’t want to ask questions. I don’t want to start conversations.
I want to open my phone and have 1 summary notification of things I received and things to do. I want the spammy ones to just be auto filtered because I never click on them.
I’d also love if I could choose when to manage all of these notifications with my AI assistant. The only back and forth I’d like is around scheduling if I need to make changes.
