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Philip Michaels

I've been skeptical about AI features on phones, but Google's Gemini might change my mind

Made by Google event showing off Gemini features on mobile phones.

Few things trigger my skepticism reflex faster than when a company starts talking about how its integrating AI into its products. Since artificial intelligence has become the flavor of the moment, a lot of AI announcements and demos seem to have the whiff of "oh yeah, us too" about them, whether those announcements or demos have any actual value or not.

This has become a bit of an occupational hazard for those of us who write about phones for a living, since it seems that you cannot launch a handset these days without rattling off a lengthy list of AI capabilities, too many of which are glorified party tricks that deliver little lasting value to anyone actually using the phone.

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