Remember, AI is like a tool. You can use a hammer to build a house or you can use it to put a hole in your wall. Who is using it and how makes all the difference.
Yea but imagine you get to use your hammer for free for 6 months then you have to pay a monthly fee to hammer additional nails after, in perpetuity. That's the part I'm not happy with. In some cases you can hammer some nails "for free" but not all of them. Then you buy next year's hammer and it's only new features is a new kind of nail you can hammer but from a specific brand that also coincides with the hammers brand of nails.
@@serialtoon more and more AI tools, run locally on your phone so you don’t need to pay the cloud provider for services. How Samsung handled that was definitely not smart
The AI features you highlighted are the best-case scenarios. I think the problem with the way companies have been marketing their AI products is that they emphasize taking the creative tasks away from people. This is expressed in the current joke that we want AI to do the laundry, not paint a painting. The other problem AI has is its trustworthiness. It's still too easy to get AI to spit out an answer to a question that's complete nonsense, and unless you know something about the topic, you won't *know* it's nonsense. I've been working a lot with Google's NotebookLM lately. It's *really* easy for the AI to get ahead of its skis and produce summaries of documents that are at least a little bit wrong, if the text it's looking at is large enough. And the other thing it suffers from is a bad reputation. It's better now, but it wasn't so long ago it was talking about glue on pizza. I remember it giving me descriptions of phones that didn't exist or quoting outrageous specs for new phones (e.g., 2TB of RAM). And more generally, vendors aren't being honest about what the AI can do. Gemini isn't Google Search. It's a chatbot. The fact that people are treating it like Google Search is kind of a failure on Google's part, because there's no way that's going to end well. LLMs look for relationships between words. Their purpose is to give you a response that sounds correct in whatever language you're using. Expecting accurate answers is the wrong use case.
There are some AI features on my phone I find useless, and some I actually like. There are absolutely no features that I am willing to pay for currently however.
I do a lot of 3D Printing and design, and I often use Gemini to ask sometimes quite obscure questions, my most recent being "Why does my PETG print keep having horizontal splits in the model, even though I've dried the filament and slowed it down?" and it gives advice on possible causes: I saw one thing that made me go "Oh, yes, it could be that", tried it, and my problem went away. That's a specific example, but I've found that if I have any questions I'll just ask, and even if the answer isn't direct, it pushes me in the right direction. Without it, I'd be delving deep into Reddit, and potentially 100s of forums and vendor websites trying to synthesise an answer for hours, then often decide that it's just too much effort.
If anyone likes to experience some significant cognitive dissonance like I do, paste in something political that you agree with and ask why it's wrong, and paste in something you don't agree with and ask why it's right.
AI is here to stay. Our government has been using it for over 15 years. I use some AI myself. I have no problem with it. I personally was just let down with the hardware on the 25. 😊
I do not mind that AI is integrated into use cases that are transparent to the end user. Where I have an issue is how all these companies are marketing it with a bunch of edge cases that are a gimmick and not useful ,to try to get us to buy the next shiny thing.
An AI could have told you the phrase is "I couldn't care less." I'm truly sorry, I couldn't help myself 😂 What's useful to me isn't universal, totally fair!
I use Gemini daily. From my experience, the more techy or task oriented queries are pretty good. I asked a very specific question today, _does a 2023 BMW m240 rwd have an open differential_ . It said yes then no in the same answer. The reason I say this is that everybody has something that they're really into and if they're asking Gemini or chatgpt questions and it's giving them random strange answers then it will feel useless. But I think giving it specific tasks to solve problems or make charts or something like that. It's a bit more effective. *Deep Research* is great though
I have found Gemini is better than ChatGPT however both suffer from information misinterpretation the more you get into it. I do find that the more technical inquiries are better than general knowledge - Python vs US history. AI will get better. One item I am concerned, is users being forced or corralled into using specific AIs. Personally I find AIs to be of minimal use. I do see that changing when an AI can be a dependable assistant.
I use Gemini ALL THE TIME! And I wouldn't buy a phone that doesn't have Circle to Search. It is not perfect but is so useful! I think people are just a little tired of hearing about it and that's fair.
Around 50% of the people that I work with are Hispanic and most of the rest are Pacific Islanders. So I run into a lot of messages in Spanish which I don't understand at all really. Well today the day shift guys left 2 note in spanish. But I used circle to search on my S24U and got both note translated well enough that I understood what they were saying.
At first, I think Gemini was having a rough start. Then, I'd say a little around the one month mark that it got a whole lot better. There will be people who talk about AI hallucinations. I'd say that's pretty much ancient history now. Anyway, people won't take my word for it. So, when you do a Google search and come up empty, try asking Gemini and then tell me AI is worthless. Yes, I would have preferred doing a Google search but if Gemini comes up with something real then I'm a happy camper. And Gemini has kept me pretty happy.
The day AI was released, a lot of people took that to mean, this is ‘the’ one time release. The grasp that this is/was an ongoing thing. The thing you could not do on day 1 , most likely you could do by 1 month. Reading posts by followers, it becomes obvious, really obvious, that some people are one and done. Progressive development doesn’t work for them. You can not ignore these. I used to only laugh. Now i only shake my head. Setting an alarm or reminder is a day 1 issue. By day 30 you could. 🤷🏼 Whether you’re talking Google, Microsoft or Apple, yours is the reality. The companies are just the flavor.
I miss some of the AI features when i hop to my OPO from my P9PF. I think what im bored with is every company making it seem like 90% of this years upgrade is all AI. And the monthly sub is something ill never pay for, even if some of the lost functionality is something id use.
The question is to what extent people are rejecting the AI as such and to what extent they are tired with the constant promotion of it as the best thing that could happen to us... But with improving interfaces and ability to speak naturally, people will find out that it is helpful - although still I am not convinced it is the best thing for the mankind to outsource thinking and learning to machines...
I honestly think that the primary problem has been the marketing, not the actual products. I think people are watching as hardware stagnates and they feel like they are hearing about these AI features as almost an excuse for that. While I'm not entirely sure that's exactly what's happening, that is certainly the perception. For the latter point, the augmentation of human capability has been a long slow process. Still, I think it's worth considering if there's a tipping point where it begins to do more harm than good. I would just say that it's only worth considering and as a curiosity or a thought exercise, because whether any of us like it or not, the train will keep running down the track. It's just where we're headed and there's very little any of us can do about it.
Unless I'm missing the joke (which is totally possible) and you meant what you typed, but NI seems to have failed you as the word should have been "rely" not "relay" . AI definitely can help with stuff like that. 😉
Man I find this video hard because I do trust you so watch these things and go - ace, that's cool, thats some really good use cases! But then my own experience using Gemini app (so more related to the first part of your video) just this week - I've tried to get it to do 30 tasks, mainly summarising specific pdfs, and it's failed over 20 times and hallucinated EVERY single other time. I constantly have to say "that's not right" followed by it grovellingly agreeing with me, then getting it wrong again immediately. Then I use lens to ID a sound bar for a family member and it gets it entirely wrong. I try and add a calendar event from gemini in gmail and it fails, as does "look at screen" or whatever its called. Then i hit screenshot and the same damn app says "oh, want me to add this to your calendar?". I just cannot work out why my own experiences trying to give it even small tasks is SO much worse than other people's. (I do love notebookLM mind!)
Yeah but should consumers have to pay for AI when Samsung is not improving charging speed and 5000mah battery when other companies have improved on both.
This seems like a Samsung specific issue. If your claim is that they've not improved their battery tech because they're focusing on AI tools, that's something you'd need to support. I see correlation, not causation. Samsung also hasn't started charging for anything and we have no idea what will require a subscription.
Think it depends, majority of usecases aren't necessary for most people. It is for sure useful for certain things, circle to search is pretty awesome ... but then stuff like the photo editing stuff is really bad in 90% of cases (even your example you can tell that the photo with the dog it was enhanced), the worst one imo is the sketch feature from Samsung. Or on the other side, Apple`s notification summary is absolutely horrible, so their utility greatly varies. And so far none of them have been proven to be a hit, Microsoft's Copilot stuff is the only one we know that they have leaked results on their usage and the majority of people just don't use it. Think the main issue people have with them is that most aren't super thought through and seems they are just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
@shanecraigtech not saying it's not ok, especially for social media(compression hides any issue pretty well), here there were issues a bit around the ear and can see that something is a bit weird with the top of the picture. And from what I've played with, both Samsung's and Google's AI photo editing tool do have some marks that if people are looking for can see them. btw.... not saying you're wrong, AI is here to stay and can be useful, what I'm trying to say is that it's a bit overhyped and has limitations, that most companies are trying to market away and make it seem like it can do everything.
You can use AI to make your comments more thoughtful and polite, so more people would think you are not a lunatic :) Gemini translation :) AI can be a valuable tool for refining communication, ensuring that your comments are perceived as thoughtful and polite. This can help you connect with a wider audience and avoid being misunderstood.
When you de-goobled your phone, it didn't just remove the AI stuff and there's a reason for that. If your hang up is privacy, these concerns extend well past these AI tools and have been going on for a long time.
@@shanecraigtech The AI takes away all the privacy we even had when google had access to all data. I think AI as in having to visit a website to use is good. Having AI as part of the operating system is the start of a new totalitarian world in the end. Just watch Chinas social score system, that is super easy with the help of AI.. "These users have talked in a way that sounds bad of our gov. " takes no time with AI.
@shanecraigtech like for instance when I asked ai to set a timer it was a hidden settings in Gemini extensions , I'm a first Gemini user as many are if it was easy to find these settings so you don't have to unlock the device to start a timer
@shanecraigtech it's like giving you a Assistant but all she has is a mouth that can't do anything lol , I don't remember doing this with Siri since they whole thing is set up in the beginning when setting up phone and yes I know this is a new feature so I can dismiss this since android is getting there finally with Gemini models 💯
Remember, AI is like a tool. You can use a hammer to build a house or you can use it to put a hole in your wall. Who is using it and how makes all the difference.
Yea but imagine you get to use your hammer for free for 6 months then you have to pay a monthly fee to hammer additional nails after, in perpetuity. That's the part I'm not happy with. In some cases you can hammer some nails "for free" but not all of them. Then you buy next year's hammer and it's only new features is a new kind of nail you can hammer but from a specific brand that also coincides with the hammers brand of nails.
@@serialtoon more and more AI tools, run locally on your phone so you don’t need to pay the cloud provider for services. How Samsung handled that was definitely not smart
@serialtoon I can imagine all sorts of things that haven't happened lol. Let me know when the stuff I talked about go paywalled.
The AI features you highlighted are the best-case scenarios. I think the problem with the way companies have been marketing their AI products is that they emphasize taking the creative tasks away from people. This is expressed in the current joke that we want AI to do the laundry, not paint a painting.
The other problem AI has is its trustworthiness. It's still too easy to get AI to spit out an answer to a question that's complete nonsense, and unless you know something about the topic, you won't *know* it's nonsense.
I've been working a lot with Google's NotebookLM lately. It's *really* easy for the AI to get ahead of its skis and produce summaries of documents that are at least a little bit wrong, if the text it's looking at is large enough.
And the other thing it suffers from is a bad reputation. It's better now, but it wasn't so long ago it was talking about glue on pizza. I remember it giving me descriptions of phones that didn't exist or quoting outrageous specs for new phones (e.g., 2TB of RAM).
And more generally, vendors aren't being honest about what the AI can do. Gemini isn't Google Search. It's a chatbot. The fact that people are treating it like Google Search is kind of a failure on Google's part, because there's no way that's going to end well. LLMs look for relationships between words. Their purpose is to give you a response that sounds correct in whatever language you're using. Expecting accurate answers is the wrong use case.
These are all fair criticisms.
There are some AI features on my phone I find useless, and some I actually like.
There are absolutely no features that I am willing to pay for currently however.
I do a lot of 3D Printing and design, and I often use Gemini to ask sometimes quite obscure questions, my most recent being "Why does my PETG print keep having horizontal splits in the model, even though I've dried the filament and slowed it down?" and it gives advice on possible causes: I saw one thing that made me go "Oh, yes, it could be that", tried it, and my problem went away. That's a specific example, but I've found that if I have any questions I'll just ask, and even if the answer isn't direct, it pushes me in the right direction. Without it, I'd be delving deep into Reddit, and potentially 100s of forums and vendor websites trying to synthesise an answer for hours, then often decide that it's just too much effort.
Did the same thing when I got into 3D printing.
If anyone likes to experience some significant cognitive dissonance like I do, paste in something political that you agree with and ask why it's wrong, and paste in something you don't agree with and ask why it's right.
AI is here to stay. Our government has been using it for over 15 years. I use some AI myself. I have no problem with it. I personally was just let down with the hardware on the 25. 😊
I do not mind that AI is integrated into use cases that are transparent to the end user. Where I have an issue is how all these companies are marketing it with a bunch of edge cases that are a gimmick and not useful ,to try to get us to buy the next shiny thing.
It sounds like your issue is less with AI and more with marketing, which is totally understandable lol..
It's great you find it useful but I don't. I could care less about AI.
An AI could have told you the phrase is "I couldn't care less." I'm truly sorry, I couldn't help myself 😂
What's useful to me isn't universal, totally fair!
I use Gemini daily. From my experience, the more techy or task oriented queries are pretty good. I asked a very specific question today, _does a 2023 BMW m240 rwd have an open differential_ . It said yes then no in the same answer. The reason I say this is that everybody has something that they're really into and if they're asking Gemini or chatgpt questions and it's giving them random strange answers then it will feel useless. But I think giving it specific tasks to solve problems or make charts or something like that. It's a bit more effective.
*Deep Research* is great though
Yep, all tools need to be deployed correctly.
Definitely google’s circle to search is useful. Used it numerous times.
I have found Gemini is better than ChatGPT however both suffer from information misinterpretation the more you get into it. I do find that the more technical inquiries are better than general knowledge - Python vs US history. AI will get better. One item I am concerned, is users being forced or corralled into using specific AIs. Personally I find AIs to be of minimal use. I do see that changing when an AI can be a dependable assistant.
I absolutely adore my 9 pro xl even if there is nothing special about it. Gemini is fantastic, and the phone as a whole is just a joy to use
I use Gemini ALL THE TIME! And I wouldn't buy a phone that doesn't have Circle to Search. It is not perfect but is so useful! I think people are just a little tired of hearing about it and that's fair.
Around 50% of the people that I work with are Hispanic and most of the rest are Pacific Islanders. So I run into a lot of messages in Spanish which I don't understand at all really. Well today the day shift guys left 2 note in spanish. But I used circle to search on my S24U and got both note translated well enough that I understood what they were saying.
At first, I think Gemini was having a rough start. Then, I'd say a little around the one month mark that it got a whole lot better. There will be people who talk about AI hallucinations. I'd say that's pretty much ancient history now. Anyway, people won't take my word for it. So, when you do a Google search and come up empty, try asking Gemini and then tell me AI is worthless. Yes, I would have preferred doing a Google search but if Gemini comes up with something real then I'm a happy camper. And Gemini has kept me pretty happy.
AI is great for brainstorming. Not everyone wants to discuss my thoughts at all hours of the day, so instead I can burden gpt with my ranting lol
This is a good channel bro. Subscribed. I've seen em all. Down to earth and accurate.
But don't' get me wrong...Still running my De-Googled phone too just to CMA!
In watching the Samsung event, I can see many uses for AI technology. Things that can help you in your daily activities is not usless!
What todo list app are you using?
Google tasks
@shanecraigtech thank you. I would love to see your productivity setup one of these days In a video or article. Continue putting out great content!
The day AI was released, a lot of people took that to mean, this is ‘the’ one time release. The grasp that this is/was an ongoing thing. The thing you could not do on day 1 , most likely you could do by 1 month. Reading posts by followers, it becomes obvious, really obvious, that some people are one and done. Progressive development doesn’t work for them. You can not ignore these. I used to only laugh. Now i only shake my head. Setting an alarm or reminder is a day 1 issue. By day 30 you could. 🤷🏼
Whether you’re talking Google, Microsoft or Apple, yours is the reality. The companies are just the flavor.
I miss some of the AI features when i hop to my OPO from my P9PF. I think what im bored with is every company making it seem like 90% of this years upgrade is all AI. And the monthly sub is something ill never pay for, even if some of the lost functionality is something id use.
Pretty soon no one will buy a phone unless it has all the AI features.
I have a galaxy fold 6 is Gemini worth getting v google. I don't know much about Gemini. My phone keeps asking if I want Gemini
OMG, call screening and speech to text accuracy is MAJOR to me with the pixels...... .....AI also. 9 Pro Xl Porcelain.
The question is to what extent people are rejecting the AI as such and to what extent they are tired with the constant promotion of it as the best thing that could happen to us... But with improving interfaces and ability to speak naturally, people will find out that it is helpful - although still I am not convinced it is the best thing for the mankind to outsource thinking and learning to machines...
I honestly think that the primary problem has been the marketing, not the actual products. I think people are watching as hardware stagnates and they feel like they are hearing about these AI features as almost an excuse for that. While I'm not entirely sure that's exactly what's happening, that is certainly the perception.
For the latter point, the augmentation of human capability has been a long slow process. Still, I think it's worth considering if there's a tipping point where it begins to do more harm than good. I would just say that it's only worth considering and as a curiosity or a thought exercise, because whether any of us like it or not, the train will keep running down the track. It's just where we're headed and there's very little any of us can do about it.
@shanecraigtech Agree, it was more of a sigh rather than a scientific analysis of the problem...
It was a spot on sigh lol
Googles AI is useless for me. I prefer to relay on NI. Natural Intelligence.
Unless I'm missing the joke (which is totally possible) and you meant what you typed, but NI seems to have failed you as the word should have been "rely" not "relay" . AI definitely can help with stuff like that. 😉
If it was a joke it was a good one!
LOL..
I like AI, its making things easier in some ways.
Man I find this video hard because I do trust you so watch these things and go - ace, that's cool, thats some really good use cases!
But then my own experience using Gemini app (so more related to the first part of your video) just this week - I've tried to get it to do 30 tasks, mainly summarising specific pdfs, and it's failed over 20 times and hallucinated EVERY single other time. I constantly have to say "that's not right" followed by it grovellingly agreeing with me, then getting it wrong again immediately.
Then I use lens to ID a sound bar for a family member and it gets it entirely wrong.
I try and add a calendar event from gemini in gmail and it fails, as does "look at screen" or whatever its called. Then i hit screenshot and the same damn app says "oh, want me to add this to your calendar?".
I just cannot work out why my own experiences trying to give it even small tasks is SO much worse than other people's.
(I do love notebookLM mind!)
Yeah but should consumers have to pay for AI when Samsung is not improving charging speed and 5000mah battery when other companies have improved on both.
This seems like a Samsung specific issue. If your claim is that they've not improved their battery tech because they're focusing on AI tools, that's something you'd need to support. I see correlation, not causation. Samsung also hasn't started charging for anything and we have no idea what will require a subscription.
Think it depends, majority of usecases aren't necessary for most people. It is for sure useful for certain things, circle to search is pretty awesome ... but then stuff like the photo editing stuff is really bad in 90% of cases (even your example you can tell that the photo with the dog it was enhanced), the worst one imo is the sketch feature from Samsung. Or on the other side, Apple`s notification summary is absolutely horrible, so their utility greatly varies.
And so far none of them have been proven to be a hit, Microsoft's Copilot stuff is the only one we know that they have leaked results on their usage and the majority of people just don't use it.
Think the main issue people have with them is that most aren't super thought through and seems they are just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
I could post that photo of Jet online and I am 100% confident that not a single person would notice a thing lol.
@shanecraigtech not saying it's not ok, especially for social media(compression hides any issue pretty well), here there were issues a bit around the ear and can see that something is a bit weird with the top of the picture. And from what I've played with, both Samsung's and Google's AI photo editing tool do have some marks that if people are looking for can see them.
btw.... not saying you're wrong, AI is here to stay and can be useful, what I'm trying to say is that it's a bit overhyped and has limitations, that most companies are trying to market away and make it seem like it can do everything.
Does anyone know of an AI tool that can extract tables from PDFs and put them in an Excel sheet?
Most can already do that. Chatsonic is the one I usually use for that purpose.
@kingzach74 Will check it out. Thanks
Wrote a long paragraph which can be summarized (😉) to: AI > LLMs > Transformers.
You can use AI to make your comments more thoughtful and polite, so more people would think you are not a lunatic :)
Gemini translation :)
AI can be a valuable tool for refining communication, ensuring that your comments are perceived as thoughtful and polite. This can help you connect with a wider audience and avoid being misunderstood.
If people watched this video and thought I was a lunatic, so be it lmao
Great video. Love Gemini. You are so right.
AI should be at the Users acceptance, aka no f-ing AI in software all the time looking at what you do. That is why have de-googled my phone.
When you de-goobled your phone, it didn't just remove the AI stuff and there's a reason for that. If your hang up is privacy, these concerns extend well past these AI tools and have been going on for a long time.
@@shanecraigtech The AI takes away all the privacy we even had when google had access to all data. I think AI as in having to visit a website to use is good. Having AI as part of the operating system is the start of a new totalitarian world in the end. Just watch Chinas social score system, that is super easy with the help of AI.. "These users have talked in a way that sounds bad of our gov. " takes no time with AI.
@@shanecraigtechwe don't know what was done. If he/she switched to GrapheneOS, then there is no AI stuff installed from the get go.
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Google Gemini is AI without the arms and legs unless you click something in settings basically
Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure what you mean.
@shanecraigtech like for instance when I asked ai to set a timer it was a hidden settings in Gemini extensions , I'm a first Gemini user as many are if it was easy to find these settings so you don't have to unlock the device to start a timer
Gotcha. Yeah, Google is still rolling out all the extensions and it can definitely be confusing. They need to improve that.
@shanecraigtech it's like giving you a Assistant but all she has is a mouth that can't do anything lol , I don't remember doing this with Siri since they whole thing is set up in the beginning when setting up phone and yes I know this is a new feature so I can dismiss this since android is getting there finally with Gemini models 💯
I dont use, Pixel Studio, Thermometer, the new weather app (prefer the one with the frog), and definitely dont use Gemini. It can't even set an alarm.
Yes it can lol.
I just had it delete a daily alarm and set a new one without opening my eyes
The sleep was good😅
Google's Al is Useless
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