Google tries demoing their new Pixel's AI feature - literally fails to work until they try THREE times [timestamped]
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It only worked when he gave praises to the demo spirits.
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It's made for space neurodivergents
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You could have just said "autism".
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Holy shit you neurodivergent the first intro to your hobby/interest vid has to always be less than 10 mins to reel them in.
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It's not an introduction. It's made for people who already know this stuff as a friend simulator since nobody irl wants to have an hour long conversation with them about it.
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I know about the Adeptus Mechanicus and I still wouldn't watch a two hour video about them.
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That's because you know how to touch grass, god bless.
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I don't. That's how sad this is. I still wouldn't watch the 2 hour video even while not knowing how to touch grass.
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Even if it got it right the first time the processing time is so slow you could've opened the calendar yourself and checked, probably twice
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Isn't that the case with a lot of these features?
Couldn't we just optimize UIs better for quicker interaction of basic tasks?
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Google doesn't know how to optimize UIs, they're only capable of adding bloat and removing useful features
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I think you mean every company. Theres nothing but bloat and useless features on every product now. I blame all the javascript developers.
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Why optimize the UI when you can farm even more data from your user's environment?
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Everyone's obviously trying to find a breakthrough new use case for AI but yeah, in medium term, AI will mostly be helpful on the backend, speeding things up and increasing accuracy.
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The reality is that the tech needed for this is still in it's infancy. It'll be at least another decade or so before we have a proper "virtual assistant" that isn't just a bunch of preset actions hidden behind a language engine.
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Siri and Google assistant are like decade old now, they could search for a calendar date already.
I actually think Google even did it dirty with this showcase. It's obviously more capable than the old assistants, it properly "digitized" the text on the image and understood it should match user's location with cities on poster without being explicitly told that. But this is just a stupid use case for it, could nobody at Google come up with anything more useful?
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As I said, the technology isn't ready. Right now you're converting speech into basic meaning and using that to trigger a premade action. The most recent leap was understanding prompts which aren't as specific as you needed with Siri, but you still can't really deviate from whatever the devs programmed in.
It only becomes truly useful when you can give an abstract command. Something like "has Jane ever called me after 2am?" is simple but tedious for a human to do, however these assistants won't do it at all. Until then it'll remain a gimmick.
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Have you tried doing this though? It's actually kinda neat
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/how-to/function-calling
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Language is so complicated that the AI should be learning in real time using customers. Like if I use a euphemism or idiom used only in german does it even know wtf I said?
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If you use an anglicized version of an idiom that only exists in another language you're r-slurred and should be shot
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BUT IT HAS A CAMERA WITH MORE MEGAPIXELS NOW!
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Don't forget the shitty battery life, the shitty modems, the shitty performance and the heating issues they have because Google's too hipster to use Snapdragons.
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At least the 8s will be cheaper
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I don't use free software because it's nonfunctional nerd shit. Meanwhile proprietary products from big tech just werk
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Linux Mint on a ThinkPad would be a better workstation than most modern OSes at this point. Literally just needs better Wine/Proton
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This was literally me with a Chromebook running crouton and Wine in college:
Ran Kali like a champ tho
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There was your mistake
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Cheap tho
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They were cheap because nobody wanted to use ChromeOS
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That weird old guy who posted boomer music and stalked foids on here used to shill Chromebooks constantly
That should give you enough Chromebook ick to never want to use it
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@X slander
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there's a circle selection tool in gimp just paint inside the circle selection
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Having switched to Mint the big thing I appreciate is the understanding that it's my computer and I'll decide what to do with it. Windows has so many useless features, ads in the UI and forced settings/updates that you end up fighting with the OS. OneDrive is a good example - "Uninstall" does not mean "Reinstall next week and ask me to use it again"
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I wish I had installed Linux Mint on my thinkpad i use arch btw
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i dunno i searched it on youtube and the people in these thumbnails aren't great
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MadeByGoogle. More like MadeByIndians amirite?
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Jewgle Poogle
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Thank you Google I'll just stick with my iToddler phone for the next couple of years. Kind of fricked of they used a Samsung to frick their tech up on too
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Have you ever thought "My phone works well for everyday tasks, but I wish it had a burning hatred for white people etched into its circuits"?
Now there's Gemini™
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I mean, that could also be the Pixel. Have you seen how anti-white the mayo in charge of Gemini is?
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Nvm i forgot Apple wanted to use Google AI or some shit frick us all i guess
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/apple-in-talks-to-license-google-gemini-for-iphone-ios-18-generative-ai-cowtools
an no i'll just assume the worst that it is the same and not that Google somehow has two competing AI's in their company because that would actually be on brand
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Apple is using its own proprietary AI + chatGPT
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The next iOS version (you can beta test it already) coming next month will have AI features as well.
You can just ignore it though
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I'm not against AI, more-so the constant bumbling of Google over and over again
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Take the !fosstards pill
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I don't want to use AI features but I also don't want to get left behind.
Please make the decision for me.
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Wait till Samsung brings back Samsung Sam in a sluttier outfit to shill Samsung Galaxy AI.
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Please Samsung. I don't want to be in your future, but I also don't want to be left behind in your present.
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typical carp. spelling his own name wrong and shilling for iphone.
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Props to Google for demoing how it'll actually work when it's in your hands I remember how shit Siri was
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Apple is supercharging Siri with LLM AI too.
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Don't care, still traded in my Pixel 8 Pro for $700 and got a Pixel 9 Pro with $300 back in store credit.
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I don't understand what this is but I like you so c:
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Google tried demo'ing a new feature live and it refused to work.
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Ahhhhh okok. Lmaooo x)
Was it even a cool feature?
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Not really?
You can click the video, it's timestamped
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Demo is at 12:20 and the timestamp links to 28:12.
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Huh, I wonder how it got fricked up.
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Snapshots:
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archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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