[HN Gopher] Gemini on the iPhone would be AI's mainstream moment
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       Gemini on the iPhone would be AI's mainstream moment
        
       Author : geox
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2024-03-24 19:52 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cnet.com)
        
       | bevekspldnw wrote:
       | Given this is a CNET link it's exactly what I would expect an LLM
       | to say about itself.
        
         | voisin wrote:
         | A lot of our media has been replaced by two LLMs in a trench
         | coat.
        
           | outofpaper wrote:
           | I'm pretty sure the media is the trench coat and always has
           | been.
        
       | rolymath wrote:
       | ChatGPT was AI's mainstream moment.
       | 
       | I hate journalists.
        
         | phmqk76 wrote:
         | I really don't think that's true at all. ChatGPT is absolutely
         | not mainstream. It's pierced the consciousness of the tech-
         | savvy, which maybe be our world, but is decidedly not
         | mainstream. Most people would have no idea how to even use it,
         | they hear about it from headlines. Having it in your pocket and
         | interacting with it on a near-daily basis would be that
         | mainstream moment, whether Apple gets there this year or Google
         | manages to get that feature in tens of millions of phones
         | through an update to its essential services through the Play
         | Store. But your comment definitely shows what it means to be in
         | a bubble.
        
           | pama wrote:
           | We've purchased an annual subscription for my 85 yo (long
           | time retired) inlaws. They use it daily. They ask their
           | doctors insightful questions and get better care. They
           | planned trips with it. They get recipe advice. I don't know
           | how much more penetration it should have to be considered
           | mainstream but it certainly feels more widely available and
           | used than what Google was 25 years ago, despite having a
           | subscription model.
        
             | okdood64 wrote:
             | Do they double check the information for hallucinations?
             | 
             | I'd personally be scared to promote usage of this for
             | someone (especially a senior) who wouldn't have the ability
             | and discipline to.
        
           | frozenport wrote:
           | Naw all the kids are using it cheat on their homework
        
           | doktrin wrote:
           | > It's pierced the consciousness of the tech-savvy... most
           | people would have no idea how to even use it...
           | 
           | They've had 100+ million weekly users for over half a year
        
           | Jensson wrote:
           | > ChatGPT is absolutely not mainstream
           | 
           | Majority of teens have heard of it and 13% admit using it to
           | cheat on homework, probably much more used it to cheat than
           | admits to it and even more than that used it for any reason.
           | Also note how the rate hoes up a lot in older kids, they
           | probably have more homework so more pressed to cheat.
           | 
           | https://www.pewresearch.org/short-
           | reads/2023/11/16/about-1-i...
        
       | _giorgio_ wrote:
       | I have chatGPT on my phone and I barely use it.
       | 
       | I use it a lot on the desktop (paid account).
       | 
       | I've used Gemini or Bard probably a couple of times.
       | 
       | I don't see a great mainstream moment.
        
         | YetAnotherNick wrote:
         | If they could bring agentic interaction to phone, I think it
         | will fundamentally change the way we interact. Based on my
         | experiments with GPT-4V it's close to being there but AI still
         | hasn't reached that point. And given they are using tiny model
         | in comparison, it would be hard to do that.
        
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