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I'm with the OP. I sometimes like AI capabilities, but I don't like my phone making AI decisions or predictions on my behalf. E.g., if I open the share menu, w

I'm with the OP. I sometimes like AI capabilities, but I don't like my phone making AI decisions or predictions on my behalf. E.g., if I open the share menu, whatever contacts and apps Google guesses are always wrong, and a simple list of whoever I've last shared with would be better. I also don't want any "smart" contextual behavior (widgets changing out throughout the day, etc.). The phone simply doesn't have enough context to know what I want from it at any given moment. I'd rather just tell it how to behave using my own judgement.

waisbrot 4y ago
> a simple list of whoever I've last shared with would be better A decent AI system would include a heavy bias toward recent. Good "AI" should mostly feel like dumb heuristics. I think a good example is directions on my iPhone: when it's plugged into a car it always suggests driving directions. When there's something in my calendar soon it suggests going there. If there's not and I'm not at home it often suggests going home (it's right more than half the time). After that, it just offers a list of buttons for places I've told it about: home, work, school. I'd be annoyed if it tried to do something more clever (like suggesting the post office because I went there on this day last year). I think a key element is that I have an immediate and intuitive idea of why its suggestion is a reasonable one.