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People aren't excited because it's just been released stateside. Wait for the customer success stories to appear before determining desire.

by r00fus 2y ago

johnnyanmac 2y ago
Gemini's been a thing for android and Samsung has something too. I've heard nilch about "success stories". I've even heard it loses some accuracy on voice commands compared to Google Assist. These are features to excite shareholders, not users.
- kaba0 2y ago
  Apple’s intelligence has the benefit of a much deeper integration (if they can live up to their wwdc), which will pretty much bring the sci-fi assistent to life. Just say “when will my plane depart” and when siri replies ask it to “send that info to X” is absolutely possible with current LLM tech exposed to a standardized API against which it can execute commands. Give it some personalized context and that’s absolutely reachable tech. I don’t know, if apple can pull it off, that will bring a huge change to human-device interactions.
  - whalabi 2y ago
    Ah we were typing at the same time but strong agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974935
- whalabi 2y ago
  Personally I picked my next phone based on which had the most useful AI this year. I've been waiting my whole life for, basically, the computer from Star Trek, and I think it's on the way. Gemini was really disappointing. It could do some incredible things but it was more like the first hints of what will be possible. For example, I could ask it to show me the biggest files in my Google Drive. And as far as I could tell, it had access to Google Drive APIs, and _could decide how to use them_. That's extremely powerful, that means it could think of what to do to accomplish any goal you have and determine how to do it. If the API can do anything the UI can do, then the AI can do anything you can do, and you don't have to point and click and type like it's 2024, and we're suddenly in the 24th century. But, it was too early. Many of my requests were met with "I'm sorry I can't access x y z" when it could and did at other times. The unreliability is what got to me. So I went with an iPhone (my first ever, I'm not American) because I think in the short term, iOS is going to have the experience which is closer to this intelligence. Because it can drive behavior in other apps and will increasingly do so as features roll out. Don't be fooled though Apple Intelligence is currently very, very limited. Side note: I don't care about the text and image gen capabilities at all. Though the notification summaries are pretty handy and occasionally hilarious. .... I might write a piece for http://unlikekinds.com http://unlikekinds.com about this.
isodev 2y ago
People aren't excited because most of it already exists with native apps like chatGPT itself or even Copilot (Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard for example, can generate memes, images, guess emoji etc) Integrarion through Siri is not transformational because few actually use Siri - Siri in Europe is dumb as a bucket, even when it correctly understands what you're asking.

People aren't excited because it's just been released stateside. Wait for the customer success stories to appear before determining desire.

by r00fus 2y ago

People aren't excited because it's just been released stateside. Wait for the customer success stories to appear before determining desire.

johnnyanmac 2y ago

Gemini's been a thing for android and Samsung has something too. I've heard nilch about "success stories". I've even heard it loses some accuracy on voice commands compared to Google Assist. These are features to excite shareholders, not users.

kaba0 2y ago
Apple’s intelligence has the benefit of a much deeper integration (if they can live up to their wwdc), which will pretty much bring the sci-fi assistent to life. Just say “when will my plane depart” and when siri replies ask it to “send that info to X” is absolutely possible with current LLM tech exposed to a standardized API against which it can execute commands. Give it some personalized context and that’s absolutely reachable tech. I don’t know, if apple can pull it off, that will bring a huge change to human-device interactions.
- whalabi 2y ago
  Ah we were typing at the same time but strong agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974935
whalabi 2y ago
Personally I picked my next phone based on which had the most useful AI this year. I've been waiting my whole life for, basically, the computer from Star Trek, and I think it's on the way. Gemini was really disappointing. It could do some incredible things but it was more like the first hints of what will be possible. For example, I could ask it to show me the biggest files in my Google Drive. And as far as I could tell, it had access to Google Drive APIs, and _could decide how to use them_. That's extremely powerful, that means it could think of what to do to accomplish any goal you have and determine how to do it. If the API can do anything the UI can do, then the AI can do anything you can do, and you don't have to point and click and type like it's 2024, and we're suddenly in the 24th century. But, it was too early. Many of my requests were met with "I'm sorry I can't access x y z" when it could and did at other times. The unreliability is what got to me. So I went with an iPhone (my first ever, I'm not American) because I think in the short term, iOS is going to have the experience which is closer to this intelligence. Because it can drive behavior in other apps and will increasingly do so as features roll out. Don't be fooled though Apple Intelligence is currently very, very limited. Side note: I don't care about the text and image gen capabilities at all. Though the notification summaries are pretty handy and occasionally hilarious. .... I might write a piece for http://unlikekinds.com http://unlikekinds.com about this.

isodev 2y ago

People aren't excited because most of it already exists with native apps like chatGPT itself or even Copilot (Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard for example, can generate memes, images, guess emoji etc) Integrarion through Siri is not transformational because few actually use Siri - Siri in Europe is dumb as a bucket, even when it correctly understands what you're asking.