Google might put an AI button on the lock screen. It's not clear what it'll do, but it could be related to its Gemini AI.

Google might put an AI button on the lock screen. It’s not clear what it’ll do, but it could be related to its Gemini AI.

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Has anyone actually found a good use for having any LLM function handy on your phone?

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Being able to ask questions about the currently playing YouTube video has been phenomenal for me, it’s the ultimate anti-clickbait.
      Other than that, no, not really.

      Being able to questions about images could open some great automation possibilities, but I’m very much not stoked about sending images to Google/OpenAI/whatever, so until those models with vision capabilities can run locally on a phone, it’s a dead end for me.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I mean, yeah? The same thing you might have used Google Assistant for…

      Some people pay tens of thousands of dollars to have a personal assistant. Assuming this could do half of what they could, it would be super useful to a whole lot of people.

      I’m skeptical that it can, but theoretically…

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    But why? Most actions it can perform will require you to unlock your phone for safety, so you might as well just unlock first and ask later.