AI Phones or AI laptops are IMO a pure marketing invention.

Nope. It’s getting to the point I don’t even want a smartphone anymore. In fact, I just bought a “dumb” phone and am going to try using that as my daily driver for a month and see how it goes. Should be delivered this afternoon, and I’ll be starting the experiment tomorrow, hopefully.

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

On-device stuff? Sure I’ll take it. But not ones that connect online.

I would if I’d be able to run my own models, it’d be better than having to connect to my server.
But AFAIK these features won’t be available to all developers, so I’m guessing only Google apps will be able to properly use the potential of the phone.

Not if I have to give up my privacy to use the AI features, which is currently the case for all or these devices.

Investors/Shareholders. They cum each time they hear the word AI

Not now. Maybe it’ll be useful once the bubble bursts and a few actually decent uses for something that could actually run on a phone emerge from the rubble and actually work.

At the moment I’m not seeing a whole lot overall that actually works unless you’re an expert using it for science or something like that.

Was curious so searched it, looks like the two big AI features are AI image editing and Google Gemini, both of which are apps look available on other devices. They can always be disabled, but Pixels are great for GeapheneOS anyways.

An AI asics chip for more efficient local software might have been cool but doesn’t looks like it comes with one.

It depends on who you’re asking. The AI branding appeals to a lot of the more casual users I know, but it ultimately comes down to the actual functionality being added. It’s the first time in a long time that I’ve been interested in following smartphone developments. What our devices can actually do has been rather stagnant IMO.

No, i use a custom rom for most of my phones, so the ai bs is worthless to me. I’d rather just but a 6 or 7 for a cheaper price than an 8 or 9 for a higher price without any significant hardware upgrades.

Not rlly but it might be useful I have this samsung a55 and they didn’t put any galaxy ai stuff on it

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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.