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>Already I've heard from Android friends who are intrigued by the recent AI announcements that they think it would be really cool to have that in their phones.
by itsoktocry 2y ago
>Already I've heard from Android friends who are intrigued by the recent AI announcements that they think it would be really cool to have that in their phones.
Fancy marketing tends to do that. Have they tried it?
- jb1991 2y agoYou know the answer to your question, so the question itself does not add to the discussion. If it turns out the iPhone AI assistant lives up to the expectations, I think you will see people moving platforms.
- talldayo 2y agoIf Apple AI succeeds, then Android AI will just look like an upgrade by comparison. Best-case-scenario, Apple creates a super-helpful model that exclusively uses local compute; then Android releases the same feature with the ability to choose uncensored models. Especially considering how Apple's Neural Engine is borderline-pointless for LLMs, neither Android or iOS feel particularly well-poised to deal with this trend. If anything I lean more towards Android, since Android manufacturers have been shipping 8GB of RAM in phones for years, and support the Vulkan accelerators that a lot of inference apps feature.
- itsoktocry 2y ago>If it turns out the iPhone AI assistant lives up to the expectations... That's a big "if". Right now it's marketing. >...I think you will see people moving platforms. This presumes Google can't do something similar, and over-estimates how much normies care about these things. I'm a "techie" and personally couldn't care less about having AI get me to the airport on time.
- jb1991 2y agoWhile I can appreciate your skepticism on marketing, it is not irrelevant that historically Apple usually delivers what it has marketed.