Question Why are OS level AI tools not being adopted?

[iterating]

The advancement in LLMs over the last couple years has been incredible. With Android having Gemini and Apple Intelligence having ChatGPT, two formidable players in the AI space, why is it that the OS level AI tools aren't getting as much adoption or positive press as the others? They don't seem to be that far behind from a technical perspective. Would love to hear your thoughts!

 

[VidJunky]

I would imagine the answer is that incorporating AI tools into the OS is a bit more challenging than performing neat party tricks. You asked about, why is there so much push behind current AI, these party tricks are flashy making them easy to sell users on. I mean consider what AI is being used for, creating pictures, editing pictures and videos, and searching the internet. It may also be that they are trying to ease people into AI. Me personally, I am not looking forward to the day AI is incorporated into everything. I think this attitude or feeling may be why there is all this talk around some AIs, like Samsung's Galaxy AI, being free until a certain date. People are quick to try something free or they think is only here for a limited time. Seems like they are hoping enough people use it enough that it becomes ubiquitous, and we stop even thinking about it anymore. But the biggest reason I would guess would be they just don't have enough built for AI use in the OS. Remember Apple's commercial where the lady sees someone they had lunch with a month earlier and couldn't remember their name so they asked AI who they had lunch with that day and it goes through their calendar and pulls the name, yeah we're not there yet. Neither was Apple, which is why that was the first and last AI commercial they put out. It just isn't that easy.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I just don't see any reason to use AI. It doesn't offer anything to me that improves my life or my daily tasks.

 

[BerryBubbles]

I just don't see any reason to use AI. It doesn't offer anything to me that improves my life or my daily tasks.

I agree with you. I like your take on it.

When I received my s24U, I played with a few of the AI features, but that's as far as it went.

 

[notforhire]

I just don't see any reason to use AI. It doesn't offer anything to me that improves my life or my daily tasks.

I might use Gemini/Chat GPT three times a week. I've found it helpful when I'm searching for something specific online and don't have time to pour over message boards and search engines to find the answer. At a minimum, it at least puts me in the neighborhood of what I'm needing.

 

[spARTacus]

I've tried a few internet search engine AI things (lots of them seem to just be trying to massage search results into a more friendly format based on how one structures the question) a few times, normally when I have had difficulty finding things/answers myself, and in almost all cases I have been annoyed by the result, the answer/output not what I'm looking for. I've even had AI give me obvious completely wrong answers/output (but they do normally apologize when you point that out to them and why they are wrong, not sure if they do yet actually learn from such).

I think some of the current AI hype is focused on just more glorious internet search engines, and that's fine if such is useful to people. Not yet most greatly useful for me.

 

[iterating]

I would imagine the answer is that incorporating AI tools into the OS is a bit more challenging than performing neat party tricks. You asked about, why is there so much push behind current AI, these party tricks are flashy making them easy to sell users on. I mean consider what AI is being used for, creating pictures, editing pictures and videos, and searching the internet. It may also be that they are trying to ease people into AI. Me personally, I am not looking forward to the day AI is incorporated into everything. I think this attitude or feeling may be why there is all this talk around some AIs, like Samsung's Galaxy AI, being free until a certain date. People are quick to try something free or they think is only here for a limited time. Seems like they are hoping enough people use it enough that it becomes ubiquitous, and we stop even thinking about it anymore. But the biggest reason I would guess would be they just don't have enough built for AI use in the OS. Remember Apple's commercial where the lady sees someone they had lunch with a month earlier and couldn't remember their name so they asked AI who they had lunch with that day and it goes through their calendar and pulls the name, yeah we're not there yet. Neither was Apple, which is why that was the first and last AI commercial they put out. It just isn't that easy.

Ya this makes sense. I find myself using AI for work purposes and not really for personal purposes so I guess that's why I don't reach for Gemini too often other than to ask for the weather which is kind of a ridiculous use case for AI

 

[iterating]

I just don't see any reason to use AI. It doesn't offer anything to me that improves my life or my daily tasks.

Ya that's fair. I wonder if that's because the AI isn't good enough yet or they haven't figured out the right UI/UX to make it useful