Samsung says Galaxy S24 AI features are "free until the end of 2025."

Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage::Samsung says Galaxy S24 AI features are “free until the end of 2025.”

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      10 months ago

      AI is not a feature. The cloud is not a feature.

      I’m with you on the cloud, but non-cloud AI would be a killer feature if anybody actually offered it. But instead, everything just sends all your data to OpenAI. Yawn. I can do that myself in any web browser.

      Samsung talks about on-device AI, but if you look through their footnotes almost everything requires a Samsung account and an active internet connection. It’s all cloud shit. Probably OpenAI, but as far as I can tell they don’t actually say who their providers are. Perhaps the details are (or will be) buried in a privacy policy somewhere.

      Google has Gemini Nano, Microsoft has Phi-2, and on the open-source side there are plenty of 3B or 7B models that can run on a laptop or phone (e.g. Mistral, Falcon, Wizard). Whisper is great for on-device multi-lingual voice-to-text, and there are tons of Stable Diffusion implementations that could run on a high-end smartphone. A Snapdragon 8 gen 3 should be able to run this stuff, unless Qualcomm seriously dropped the ball (remains to be seen).

      • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        Kind of like what Google did with the Pixel 8 (Pro). “Hey look at our cool Tensor 3 chip, it does AI.” … “Oh but almost everything we showed you with object removal and most other stuff works in the cloud.”

        That’s some bs.

        Will be interesting to see what Apple does. They’ll at least try to get some form of chat bot running on-device, all of their AI features run locally so far.

      • nathanielcwm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Some of the “AI” features have been found to be rebrands of the Pixel features - even down to having the same Google terms of service.

        • Tinnitus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          10 months ago

          What’s the issue with the Pixel cameras? I thought they were typically one of the selling points of the phone? Maybe I haven’t paid enough attention to recent reviews (been on iOS for a few years now, but want to switch back to Android).

          • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            That kinda goes away if you do install Graphene or other de-Googled software though. The camera hardware isn’t that impressive and using the AOSP camera makes this super clear. Google’s image processing is what really elevates the quality you get from a Pixel picture.

            • Velonie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              You can install the pixel camera on graphene and it functions exactly the same as the stock OS

                • Velonie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Because Google doesn’t have root access to your phone. You can install the pixel camera but give it no network permissions. It’s just another camera app at that point

                  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    10 months ago

                    Sure.

                    Then install Gboard, it’s a much better keyboard. You know what, the Google Photos app is also way better integrated with the Pixel camera… Can’t forget about Keep too, and Assistant…

    • karpintero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      100%. Seems like phones continually get worse under the guise of “progress”. No more headphone jack or removable battery, more bloated software, anti-privacy assistants/AI. Switched to a Sony Xperia for the headphone jack alone and it’s been great, I hope they don’t follow this AI trend or else I’m out.