My personal choice is: "Nooop"

And I really, really hope #Apple will leave this out 🙏 An "AI iPhone" is really not an option :no:

At that point it's back to the Nokia 3210 😀

@stux Yep definitely! My S24Ultra has a lot of really cool AI stuff. I even subscribe to Gemini Advanced.

@stux There may be possibilities for AI to improve on things.

Like in photography with a smartphone where sensors are rather small and lenses are not really sophisticated in comparison to photo cameras.

But AI-everything is not the solution, I guess ...

@stux let's be honest here. All of us who record any video with phone/tablet want AI focus. Do I want my data shared is another question

@stux I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to having AI on my phone, but it needs to be open-source, and the model to be downloaded only if the user consents. I could see it being useful for code autocompletion, stuff like Circle to Search, a summarize feature in notes, social media, etc. As long as AI is rightfully used only as a tool to help the user, I'm fine with it.

@stux scientific wild ass guess: AI means something different to the handful of people voting yes. I don’t want the silly apps coming from the current fad in generative large ml models but I do want the AI that has already quietly existed on mobile devices in games for years, for example.

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It's already there, and AI is just vaporware like the Blockchain.

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No. From my understanding of how AI works, I find it a pointless use of technology.

Moreover, things like Shortcuts and Routines exist on the phone.

You just write the conditions and actions yourself. In fact, I think more people should be aware of the basic concepts of logic.

I don't like how everything is being hidden from users nowadays.

I know, I sound like the old man yelling at clouds meme. 👴🏻✊🏻☁️

@stux Maybe if it's open source and runs locally without any cloud connections.

@stux it depends.

@stux technically, yes - since autocorrect/typing-prompts which adapt to your personal idiom qualify, and there are probably genuinely helpful system-level things like dynamically-adapting network-connectivity code.

But "no" to the question in the sense that you probably intended it - large-scale or intrusive user-facing apps.

@stux I voted “I don’t know” because I think AI is so overloaded the term itself means nothing.
There might be some ‘machine learning’ or stuff that might be useful, but I want to stay FAR FAR away from LLM

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Well, thinking about it more, maybe,
so that it can respond on its own to call centers and other boring
and I sent them away to...

@stux I do want to have software based on neural networks, such as voice synthesis, voice recognition, image recognition, and so on.

It's just that branding any of software mentioned above as an "AI" doesn't make it better in any way, and forcing to use it instead of something that is a lot more reliable is definitely not what I want.

@stux What I want is audio jack and rectangular screen with no holes or rounded corners. Products have what CEOs want, not what customers want.

@stux The old definition of it for simple voice commands and not the new definition of "infringing copyright of the entire planet."

@stux yes and no. getting it to enhance pics etc, definitely yes. but having it manage my contacts, messages and calendar, definitely not

@stux I impulsively voted "no" thinking of LLMs, but... it depends? some of the offline, machine learning-based stuff that Apple does is quite impressive, like being able to search your photo gallery for text on pictures. I stick to a degoogled Android ROM with mostly FOSS apps, but things like that one do make me jealous just a little bit.

any ChatGPT-enabled assistant and the like can eff right off, though.

@stux The answer I wanted to give in the poll is not listed.

AI has its place. Right now, the wrong “AI” being shoehorned in ways it really shouldn’t be. And it’s quite broken.

I think it’s needed for our “smart” devices to become smarter and actually work for us. But we gotta get away from the “AI of the month” nonsense that needs to go into everything right away even if it doesn’t make sense.

I do want AI in my devices, but I don’t want LLMs pretending to know things to be there.

@stux AI is the future, however just like everything else, too much is both waste and dangerous.

@stux Haha - as if these are the options. You’re either for or against, or you can’t possibly have an opinion 😂

@stux I mean, if it was a local model that didn't need to send anything to the cloud, maybe, but we're not alking about those.

@stux it depends. Reigniting people in Photos.app already is some kind of AI but if it's a LLM, I want it to be able to run fully on device. It doesn't have to by default, but I want at least an option to be able to.

@stux AI is a useful tool but I don’t want a dumb but useful tool trying to manage my life.

@stux If it was actually a general intelligence maybe, but then there's all the ethical issues of owning a person... but spicy autocomplete, no.

@stux Narp.

@stux You’re many years too late for this poll. On iPhones they use machine learning for many things, including facial and object recognition in photos, text capture from images, route suggestions in maps, optimizing power management, scheduling of background services activity, text autocomplete and ottercorrect, speech recognition, many camera things, etc.