A survey of more than 2,000 smartphone users by second-hand smartphone marketplace SellCell found that 73% of iPhone users and a whopping 87% of Samsung Galaxy users felt that AI adds little to no value to their smartphone experience.
SellCell only surveyed users with an AI-enabled phone – thats an iPhone 15 Pro or newer or a Galaxy S22 or newer. The survey doesn’t give an exact sample size, but more than 1,000 iPhone users and more than 1,000 Galaxy users were involved.
Further findings show that most users of either platform would not pay for an AI subscription: 86.5% of iPhone users and 94.5% of Galaxy users would refuse to pay for continued access to AI features.
From the data listed so far, it seems that people just aren’t using AI. In the case of both iPhone and Galaxy users about two-fifths of those surveyed have tried AI features – 41.6% for iPhone and 46.9% for Galaxy.
So, that’s a majority of users not even bothering with AI in the first place and a general disinterest in AI features from the user base overall, despite both Apple and Samsung making such a big deal out of AI.
I want a voice assistant that can set timers for me and search the internet maybe play music from an app I select. I only ever use it when I am cooking something and don’t have my hands free to do those things.
A damning result for AI pump and dump scammers.
every NVDA earnings call lol. Old man Jenson had a (chip) farm, AI AI OH! guy literally said AI almost 100 times in a call.
Sounds like corporate right now. Had a meeting earlier and it wasn’t even focused on AI, but I heard it enough times to make my ears bleed.
AI is useless and I block it anyway I can.
hurry up and get Siri integrated with chatGPT and it’ll be a lot more useful.
It’s all just to get more data from you so it can monetized.
The only thing I want AI (on my phone) to do is limit my notifications and make calendar events for me. I don’t want to ask questions. I don’t want to start conversations.
I want to open my phone and have 1 summary notification of things I received and things to do. I want the spammy ones to just be auto filtered because I never click on them.
I’d also love if I could choose when to manage all of these notifications with my AI assistant. The only back and forth I’d like is around scheduling if I need to make changes.
Everybody hates AI, and these companies keep trying to push it because they’re so desperate for investors. Oh, I want to be a fly on the wall of a meeting room when the bubble finally pops.
Not only that, but Google assistant is getting consistently less reliable. Like half the time now I ask it a question and it just does an image search or something or completely misunderstands me in some other manner. They deserted working, decent tech for unreliable, unwanted tech because ???
Profit potential. Think of AI as one big data collector to sell you shit. It is significantly better at learning things about you than any metadata or cookies ever could.
If you think of this AI push as “trying to make a better product” it will not make much sense. If you think of the AI push as “how do I collect more data on all my users and better directly influence their choices” it makes a lot more sense.
Well, that’s depressing. Where’s my Star Trek future?
Tbf most people have no clue how to use it.
I just tought my mom how to use circle to search and it’s a real game changer for her. She can quickly lookup onscreen items (like plants shes reading about) from an image and the on screen translation is incredible.
Also circle to search gets around link and text copy blocking giving you back the same freedoms you had on a PC.
Google Lens already did that though, all you need is decent OCR and an image classification model (which is a precursor to the current “AI” hype, but actually useful).
That is still AI though…
I have never used this bixbi AI
“PLEASE use our hilariously power inefficient wrongness machine.”
Not just useless but actively unwelcome.
I use chatgpt for things like debugging error codes but I have to be explicit with as much detail as possible or it will give me all sorts of inapplicable crap
Do I use Gen AI extensively?…
No but, do I find it useful?..…
Also no.
I only really use AI shit on my work computer (because hooray I have a Copilot license), and its only marginally better than doing searches myself. Its nice when it works because it lets me save time researching things, but I CONSTANTLY have to ask “are you sure that’s real?” because it just fucking makes up random command flags based on the prompt.
And its only marginally better because fucking search engines have their head so far up their ass they can see their tonsils. Godsdammit I want working search engines back.
