* Microsoft to do it for business users
* Google pixie does it first for personal use. Android phones might even momentarily be more desirable than iphone
* Apple eventually get there, for their walled garden
* Amazon etc fall totally behind
* And, years later, users of google docs are still waiting for basic AI help writing docs whilst google completely doesn't try in that space
AI would be much better at auto-completing whole sentences and paragraphs and suggesting rephrasing etc in docs and presentations, than at answering questions about the world.
But the race seems to be to answer questions about the world based on a 2021 dump of the internet, so ... :)
A good on-device assistant would be super useful: - instead of searching for a setting, you just tell it to change a device setting - decent appointment/reminder setting ("remind me to invite joe to my next birthday party" -> and it knows who Joe is, and how to set up such a reminder) - all kinds of search ("what was that book about startups that someone recommended to me a year ago?", "open up a tracking page for that thing I ordered last week", "show me a photo of XX I took last summer") - managing e-mails the way old-school secretaries did - "any important messages?", or "reply to everyone I'm out of office, unless it's related to X"
I make a point to not share my search history with anyobe, or any other data as much as possible. And I wont start doing so to enable some AI gadget I am more than happy to live without.
"Pixie, reply to that email for me"
"Pixie, book that car service for me and remind them they promised a free brake fluid replacement"
"Pixie order all the ingredients I need to make my wife her favourite dish"
"Pixel, buy everyone in my family birthday presents"
I will 100% pay for that capability, and as someone that uses GPT4 to basically do my job for me, it really does not seem that far off. And I do think Google has an advantage here over Apple or anyone else, not just in Hardware, but in the enormous amount of data and information they have about both people in general, and specifically me.
By the way, if I would use ChatGPT for my job, let alone letting it do for me, I'd be fired, worst case go to jail. And even if not, what would prevent my employer from firing me anyway if a basically free to use web service can do it at the same level I can?
My grandma said, "I won't send any email through a computer, I prefer to write it by hand and have it delivered by a human being".
Although maybe it will be even weirder with AI assistants sending birthday greetings to other people's AI assistants and then your AI assistant summarizing who sent you birthday greetings.
The fact is the next generation moves on and uses new tools. I don't think AI will replace our jobs but people who are good at their jobs can, with the help of AI, outcompete people who are just good at their jobs but don't use AI.
The parent you were replying to may currently be able to automate what they are doing with the help of AI but I don't think that will last long as jobs end up requiring a mix of human and AI capabilities.
But reading? On-premise? You already allow basic algorithms to read your mail, for spam control and whenever you search through your messages. Having a better algorithm (as long as it's still on device) has no difference in terms of safety.
Phone, remove the blemish from this picture.
Phone, make my hair slightly more red, and my waist thinner by one inch.
Phone, tell me who that guy in the background of my pictures is.
Phone, what time do I need to leave to get coffee on my way to work.
Those sorts of things.
Most of the world is already there, and it's not momentary. iPhones only dominate the market in North America - Android has the majority basically everywhere else
As for docs, I can see them pushing for more Gemini integration depending on how M$ Copilot goes when it reaches saturation
> Most of the world is already there, and it's not momentary. iPhones only dominate the market in North America - Android has the majority basically everywhere else
Market share is not necessarily proportional to desirability. Cars make a useful analogy here. I think a Ferrari is more desirable than a Volkswagen, but Volkswagen’s market share is much higher.
I disagree strongly with this, and it has everything to do with how we conceptualize AI.
I get in my car and plug in my iPhone. CarPlay immediately causes the Maps app to pop up and route me to my next meeting. I can say "hey siri, set a reminder to call Mr. Jones at 3:00" and she will gladly comply. If my buddy texts me while I'm driving to the meeting and asks if I'm free for golf tomorrow, she will automatically try to pin that on my calendar. I can throw out lots of examples here, but you get the idea.
Now granted, voice recognition in Siri has been pretty bad. She struggles with a lot of basic things, like putting on the music I request. But, there's no question in my mind that these augmented reality moments are where AI is actually making a difference in our lives and represent the actual business opportunity bridgeheads. In Apple's case, they not only already control the hardware (the phone, the watch, the earbuds, the tablet) but they've also figured out how to start bridging this into other hardware like a vehicle.
• Maps doesn't understand that I don't own a car, defaults to driving sometimes
• Autocorrupt rather than autocorrect
• Calendar suggestions only work for the simplest of dates, so it suggested an event for the wrong month
• One case where it seemed to think the only timezone in the world was California
(It's not all negatives: for me, Apple has the least wrong voice transcription AI, and I do like their computational photography and definitely the ability to select text in images and Safari's website translation — but even then I don't think they're way ahead of the rest with these things, and website translation was definitely behind).