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Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals
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Like....what?
Exactly, we don't need it for anything. I have zero tasks that I need automation for on my phone. In fact, I have typically zero tasks that I need to do on my phone at all.
You know what tasks I actually NEED to do? I need to mow my back yard, and I need to install gutters on my house. AI is not going to help any of that, so it's useless for my needs. Meanwhile, it is wasting a fortune in energy and an environmental crisis worth of water.
AI could be useful if it could orchestrate more complex tasks that the relevant apps don't natively support. But of course that's not what we're getting.
I use lots and lots of timers every day to structure my chores and work. For example, I'd sometimes love to be able to start one timer, and have another one set to automatically start as soon as I stop the ringing from the first (which might take a few minutes).
Very simple requirements, but specialized enough that I'd have to write it myself. But I can't see phone AIs supporting something like this in this decade.
But AI could totally tell you the top rated lawn mowers in stock in your area based on fake bought and paid for reviews to optimize your efficiency at mowing your lawn and increasing the capitalist profit margins of local stores that pay Google for increased foot traffic to their stores.
Back when I used an iPhone, I had a few automations through Shortcuts, but nothing critical. Then I got a Pixel, put Graphene on it, and started learning how Android works. At the same time I went all in on Home Assistant over Alexa.
It's been over a year now, so I figured I'd see what I can automate between my phone and my house.
The short answer is: nothing.
There is absolutely nothing that I need my phone to do automatically. Not a single task I need it to accomplish on my behalf.
I saw a post on Reddit a few weeks ago in the Tasker sub. A guy was talking about how one of his automations was to send a randomly selected affirmation or quote from some website to each of his loved ones at 7am. I'm still not quite over that level of psychopathy. The notion that the correct way to show affection is to have an automation randomly select a message to send them every morning.
"Need" really imposes some incredibly urgent something.
I actually do love automation, but why use ai for that? Macrodroid, tasker, automate.... But hey, they NEED us to need it.
The only 2 tasks that have been worth automating for me on my phone is time-based volume/vibration switching and VPN turn-on and off when I am on home internet or away.
No need to steal people's water to do it.
Paying for parking in my city requires a phone.
You either have to use the QR code, a text message, or call a line with an auto-attendant. There is no physical kiosk on the street to use.
Set a 5 minute timer
That’s really it.
Wow. Is this possible nowadays? What a time to be alive. But can it be also a 10m timer? What about 1m? I'm skeptical...
It depends. 10 is okay. 15 is usually fine.
14 minutes has a 50/50 chance of being 40 minutes.
See? I knew it was half-assed. But maybe i can download an extra 14-min-timer-app?
Like stuff. Don't worry about it. AI will take care of everything. Now shut up and let us announce 20 more datacenters in peace.
Stop thinking. AI will do it for you. Just offload all thought and skill to our machines and believe whatever they say.
Stuff you say? That's the thing I like most! I'm so exited. We need more data centers!
I used it on long drive this week to find local NPR stations. It was actually pretty good at that.
Then I asked it to reroute me using a different road and it said it couldn't do that lmao. Also couldn't understand that I wanted to find the next Wendy's on my route despite clearly stating that multiple times. Just kept telling me to backtrack to go to random Wendy's in the area.
So basically worthless except for finding npr stations. And even then it would vomit out a bunch of irrelevant info like the station ID and what kind of content they have. Like dude I don't care, I just asked for the fucking frequency ffs.
can it block ads in the iphone
can't block anything essential. "iphones" are the ad in itself :)
Commercial for AI: Now you can order a cake while planning your child's birthday and sending an email to your boss while printing the tickets for your trip to Italy!
My unemployed ass, sitting around in boxers eating cereal at 10PM watching cartoons from the 90's: Sweet, this is gonna change my life!
Lol. It sure will change all our lifes. Maybe just not the way we expect it....
Browsing Lemmy 😁
So it could do that for me? That'd be awesome, wouldn't even need my phone for that anymore!
"Gemini, do everything I would've done on this phone today, so I can do something else, like plowing your mom or do my taxes".
I love the future!
What a typical phone user does on their phone?
Influencers may be using their phone more for editing and filming, but that is it.
Nothing I can think of would benefit from AI. Maybe trading, but that AFAIK is a terrible idea.
Edit: Forgot messaging. AI doesn't help with this one much either.
One of my broker gives me AI-advice on trading. And yeah, that is reaaaaaaly a bad idea 😂
Chat, you forgot chat. But yes, that's about. Nothing AI could do for me, even if I really really really wanted it to.
I guess they don't even know themselves but are forced to market the shit. And usually people will just gulp down what gets pushed into their throat, digitally.
AI trading assistant for everyone is an absolutely excellent concept!
It allows you to directly control the market by having the "AI" tell masses what you want them to push for. Best part - doesn't even need to be AI, you can just claim it's the AI that generates your "advices" and take no responsibility for your own orchestrations.
Absolutely amazing, you no longer have to fool people into performing certain actions like Trump is doing. You just tell them directly.
Hehe, yeah maybe even like that. I would not even lift an eyebrow if that came out. I'd guess a lot of people actually follow those advices...look at eToro (if they're still alive).
The use case for AI assistants seems to be reserving tables at a restaurant.
If that would spare me a human interaction then that'd be considered a plus! At least.