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I think this is the correct approach on a phone. I don't want AI front-and-center. I want it in the background quietly making everything better. To me, that's a
by taylodl 1y ago
I think this is the correct approach on a phone. I don't want AI front-and-center. I want it in the background quietly making everything better. To me, that's a much more useful form of AI.
- nathan_douglas 1y agoI have a similar philosophy about home automation. Every few years I geek out and set up a bunch of crap and spend a bunch of money and waste a lot of time, and then it tends to fall apart fairly quickly and I repent of everything... ...except for the motion-activated lighting in our foyer and laundry room. $15, 15 minutes to install, no additional charges, no external services, no security issues, and just works year after year with 100% reliability.
- goodells 1y ago"Any sufficiently advanced home automation is indistinguishable from a haunting."
- scyzoryk_xyz 1y agoAnd I want it turned the fuck off, quietly not doing anything with my personal shit. I want to reach for my tools when I want to use them.
- bayindirh 1y agoI'll argue that face recognition, event detection and share recommendations are nice features. They are all done locally on your device for the last decade, at least.
- mort96 1y ago[flagged]
- micromacrofoot 1y agothat stuff is also essentially machine learning, just more parameters and better marketing
- mort96 1y agoI don't think it's marketing's primary purpose to be off-putting? Anyway, it's not the same thing: I'm fine with machine learning to give me better image search results, I'm not fine with machine learning to generate "art" or machine learning to generate text. Everyone has collectively agreed to call the latter "AI" rather than machine learning, so the term is a useful distinction.
- micromacrofoot 1y agoit's a misleading distinction that's causing people to spiral out and think they're talking to an actual intelligence and is also being used to bamboozle lawmakers into allowing massive amounts of content theft
- derefr 1y agoYou're letting the hype men set the goalposts for you, then, as every ML thing has been retroactively rebranded as "AI." Remember the term "smart" as applied to any device or software mode that made ~any assumptions beyond "stay on while trigger is held"? "AI" is the new "smart." Even expert systems, decision trees, and fulltext search are "AI" now.
- mort96 1y ago> You're letting the hype men set the goalposts for you, then Not really, I'm taking the hint. If they call a feature "AI", there's a 99% chance it's empty hype. If they call a feature "machine learning", there may be something useful in there. Notice how Apple, in this event even, uses the term "machine learning" for some features (like some of their image processing stuff) and "AI" for other features. Their usage of the terms more or less matches my line of features I want and features I don't want.
- tartoran 1y agoYeah, the annonying movies IPhone does from my photo library is something I'd love to opt out of. I get that some people love this feature but I don't. And as you say, I could ask the phone to do that for me on request.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoDisable “show featured content” in Photos.
- foogazi 1y agoI love this feature on both Photos and Google Photos
- nerdjon 1y agoI think it is just generally the correct approach. It was not that long ago that ML (outside of research) was often talked about but it being ML was not the focus. The focus was on the actual benefits and what it did. Of course this is going to be spun and turned into a negative, but I basically want ML to be invisible again. The benefits being clear, but the underlying tech no longer mattering.
- Razengan 1y agoActually if Siri ever worked when I really need it, they could finally catch up with their promises made in 2011.
- akomtu 1y agoIndeed, a good AI Snitch runs in background on your phone. The era of intelligent spyware.