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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 87 points 5 days ago (27 children)

. The biggest of them involves how Gemini could bear the load of mundane or mindless tasks you do on your phone or other Android devices.

Like....what?

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 53 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Exactly, we don't need it for anything. I have zero tasks that I need automation for on my phone. In fact, I have typically zero tasks that I need to do on my phone at all.

You know what tasks I actually NEED to do? I need to mow my back yard, and I need to install gutters on my house. AI is not going to help any of that, so it's useless for my needs. Meanwhile, it is wasting a fortune in energy and an environmental crisis worth of water.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

AI could be useful if it could orchestrate more complex tasks that the relevant apps don't natively support. But of course that's not what we're getting.

I use lots and lots of timers every day to structure my chores and work. For example, I'd sometimes love to be able to start one timer, and have another one set to automatically start as soon as I stop the ringing from the first (which might take a few minutes).

Very simple requirements, but specialized enough that I'd have to write it myself. But I can't see phone AIs supporting something like this in this decade.

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