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Samsung Teases 'True AI Companion' Debuting on January 22 Alongside New Galaxy Smartphones

Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m just getting old, but I remember when there were loads of exciting new hardware and software that looked like they would be fun, helpful and genuinely useful in unlocking creativity and handing control to users instead of furthering reliance upon the technology whilst reducing those positive benefits.

They’re turning the real world into a ‘point and click’ adventure where you get to ask from an approved list of things the computer understands and then you get back a short list of optional responses if you’re lucky and you marvel at how wonderful it is that you’re paying all this money to have fewer choices decided by someone else’s code that has some nice graphics and music provided to you that distracts you from the fact you just wasted 2 hours trying to ‘open door with monkey’ when you actually had to ‘use key with door’.

Anyway, AI audio extraction like Apple has implemented in Logic is very cool, as one example. I’m not saying it’s all bad. There are good uses for it. But just because I might like ketchup in a burger, I don’t need it on a side salad, or in my milkshake, or on a birthday card, or squirted in my bosses’ faces when I’m giving a presentation. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Keep the ketchup in the bottle and let Guybrush live on in video games and my memory as a teenager, he’s happier there anyway.
 
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Hopefully it will do a better job than Google's and YouTube's AI.

I was watching a video about preparing oat flakes and the recipe used dates, the fruit. Suddenly, the auto-translated German sub-titles and the AI voice were talking about pureeing the appointments!
 
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That was a rather poor teaser. And isn't calling someone "Hey!" considered rude?

This would never fly in a restaurant:
"Hey! Can you bring me a glass of water?"

Why is this acceptable with our personal digital assistants? Just a slow and steady decline of the human race.
 
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I wonder if Samsung is going to upgrade the cameras on the regular S25 and the S25 Plus this year?
 
spenterd said:
This is not going to work you guys need to think about something else, you’re taking away from the experience of having a mobile phone. We don’t wanna be stupid and just tell the phones what to do for us. That is not a mobile phone experience. All of you with AI will flop.
The Apple commercials with the AI wild , it shows the users being lazy , not knowing anything and everyone being so happy that they used AI and did nothing. It’s not making sense and we will stop buying your phones forever.
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Reading “true AI companion” in the title makes me think Samsung is going to release their attempt at ‘Her’, from the Joaquin Phoenix movie where a software company releases a truly human-like personal assistant/companion OS (who in the movie some people fall in love with lol). But the article doesn’t expound on this at all. It doesn’t even mention it. I’d really like to know where exactly this quote is from. A press release? Please reference, MR!
 
turbineseaplane said:
That was so dystopian and off putting

It blew me away that anyone at Apple thought those were “good” and definitely something they should release

I think one showed a wife who had totally forgotten her husband’s birthday and was embarrassingly having AI do a photo memory slapped together last second as a gift

That as your “gift” is embarrassing enough on its own.. to say nothing of totally forgetting your spouses birthday

Just horrendous concept and writing and all of it.

Maybe Apple Intelligence came up with the AD idea?
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That “gift” was created on HER phone, not his. So moments after he finishes watching the slideshow, she takes the “gift” back because she’s very likely NOT giving him her phone. If he wants to keep the gift, she could presumably have AI remake the slideshow on his phone and thus demonstrate how little she put into his birthday.

I’d like to see the sequel in which he does something similar for her birthday and she is perfectly happy with a comparable “gift.” Why do I suspect the reaction would be a bit different… both the reaction of the wife in the commercial AND the reaction of viewers of the commercial ripping into the husband for both forgetting and then trying to get by with putting one over on his wife.
 
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That was a rather poor teaser. And isn't calling someone "Hey!" considered rude?

This would never fly in a restaurant:
"Hey! Can you bring me a glass of water?"

Why is this acceptable with our personal digital assistants? Just a slow and steady decline of the human race.
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Hey isn't rude if you’re very familiar and casual with the person. Like, friends say hey to each other. I guess that’s what they’re going for.
 
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Looking forward to seeing the new Samsung flagship device along with its new AI features. Waiting to hear more about the pre order benefits.
 
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Looking forward to this. I really dislike the cameras on iPhones post 13 series. The post processing is far too aggressive.

Samsung hits a great balance and consistency for me.
 
acorntoy said:
What happens on -all- android devices.
Had a Nexus and the first thing I had to do was change the keyboard because it was awful. Androids customization is great but you also literally have to customize the software because the defaults they give you on any device are usually beyond horrid and need tweaking.

I went back to IOS as I got older and just wanted things to -work-. I don't want to have to customize every inch of my phone for it to work as a phone. Just need to send a text and take a call. ( I sound like im 90 but I'm 27)
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What happens on -all- ios devices.
Had an iPhone and the first thing I wanted to do was change the keyboard because it was awful. But had no chance to do it.

I went back to Android as I got older and just wanted things to -work- as I want.
 
Porco said:
Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m just getting old, but I remember when there were loads of exciting new hardware and software that looked like they would be fun, helpful and genuinely useful in unlocking creativity and handing control to users instead of furthering reliance upon the technology whilst reducing those positive benefits.

They’re turning the real world into a ‘point and click’ adventure where you get to ask from an approved list of things the computer understands and then you get back a short list of optional responses if you’re lucky and you marvel at how wonderful it is that you’re paying all this money to have fewer choices decided by someone else’s code that has some nice graphics and music provided to you that distracts you from the fact you just wasted 2 hours trying to ‘open door with monkey’ when you actually had to ‘use key with door’.

Anyway, AI audio extraction like Apple has implemented in Logic is very cool, as one example. I’m not saying it’s all bad. There are good uses for it. But just because I might like ketchup in a burger, I don’t need it on a side salad, or in my milkshake, or on a birthday card, or squirted in my bosses’ faces when I’m giving a presentation. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Keep the ketchup in the bottle and let Guybrush live on in video games and my memory as a teenager, he’s happier there anyway.
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My own experiences with AI have tended more towards the Zork end of the spectrum
 
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