Rui Carmo
Most of these aren’t yet available in the EU (although I do have the Image Playground app working on my Mac), but they all feel like cheap party tricks. Siri’s intent detection could have been made massively better, but instead you get the worst of both worlds in terms of accuracy and relevance (who needs a restaurant suggestion for a place that doesn’t exist?). And don’t get me started on the “usefulness” of Genmoji.
Oh, and it takes up 4GB of storage space on your device that you cannot opt out of.
The real issue here is that none of these features address any pressing needs–never mind being indispensable or “killer apps” for AI. And once the novelty wears off, they may even turn out to be detrimental to user experience since they neither leverage device context nor provide a good, reliable way to access useful information.
The funny thing is that you can take the above and apply it to just about any form of generative AI on any platform. The sobering part is that the industry is just burning through cash without anything truly impactful having come up as yet (or at least positively impactful)…