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The problem with AI isn't that it's not been clearly explained. The problem is, it sucks.
I get mad that my microwave wants the date when a power outage causes me to have to set the time. it does not need to be date aware. every power outage its november 11th 2011 all over again.
I wish they didn’t even have clocks. The darn thing resets every time there’s a big gust of wind.
I mean its vaguely useful to have another clock but yeah if it did not I would not exactly cry.
I have a stupidly cheap microwave which I bought a few years ago (because I moved homes and the last one, a rental, included a microwave) and it has no clock.
In fact, it doesn’t even have the simplest of displays - it has one analog rotary control for power and another for microwaving time, the latter rotating back by itself at a fixed speed.
Sometimes simpler is better.
That’s just your microwave reminding you when its birthday is. Did you even get it a card this year?
That functionality require a high tier subscription, and even then you have to watch 4 of the same advertisement before it says “Happy Bithday!”
An operating system should only be infrastructure to keep programs running. If I want an AI program, I’ll seek it out and get it myself.
Right? Why would you bake it in?
Only one third?
One third don’t want it and don’t need it. Another third probably need it, but still don’t want it. And the rest are just sheep.
To me it entirely hinges on what kind of features. The Firefox local website translation feature is cool and useful. A chatbot reading my emails and giving me dialogue options, a program harvesting data on everything I do on my computer and sending it to a server, those kinds of things I do not want and will go out of my way to avoid. Normal rules of what makes software good or bad still apply.
Not only is it completely useless for all but the simplest of summary tasks, but I also don’t need it so much that some “colossal” skuM needs to build their own EPA-violating methane burning power plants to provide that uselessness to my home computer. Diminishing returns doesn’t begin to spell out how little use this is to the user.
According to “The Evolving Ecosystem”, a recent Connected Intelligence® report from Circana, LLC, 86% of U.S. consumers 18+ are aware of AI in smartphones and other technology devices
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Of consumers who are aware of AI, 65% are interested in AI features coming to at least one of the device types studied — most commonly the smartphone. This figure rises to 82% of consumers between ages 18 and 24 and steadily declines among older groups.
So, an alternative headline that would be just as truthful: "A majority of US consumers are interested in AI features coming to their devices."
That's not going to get the upvotes here, though.
Yeah, there is that. There is also the fact that even going to the source I cannot find the actual study/data. No idea the sample size, method, or even list if questions. Mostly this feels like clickbait from PC Gamer.
I like my Mac. It has AI, like every other computer out there, but it’s like the Forrest Gump of AI. Except it can’t even tell you that life is like a box of chocolates… but with Apple Intelligence, you never know what you’re gonna get. We just accept that it’s useless. And I hope they do tell us our phones and computers aren’t good enough for the next version. I’m totally okay with that. I’ll stick with what I have.
I use it for work a lot. But On my personal devices? Nah I don’t need it . And I especially don’t want my data crawled forcibly
reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
even on features that might be useful i’m extremely suspicious why they must be shoved down my throat.
Imagine someone baking the best cake in the world and then trys to go around force feeding it to people so they too can experience the bliss that is WORLDS BEST CAKE.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Even then it’s just OK cake, and you feel full already