A survey of more than 2,000 smartphone users by second-hand smartphone marketplace SellCell found that 73% of iPhone users and a whopping 87% of Samsung Galaxy users felt that AI adds little to no value to their smartphone experience.
SellCell only surveyed users with an AI-enabled phone – thats an iPhone 15 Pro or newer or a Galaxy S22 or newer. The survey doesn’t give an exact sample size, but more than 1,000 iPhone users and more than 1,000 Galaxy users were involved.
Further findings show that most users of either platform would not pay for an AI subscription: 86.5% of iPhone users and 94.5% of Galaxy users would refuse to pay for continued access to AI features.
From the data listed so far, it seems that people just aren’t using AI. In the case of both iPhone and Galaxy users about two-fifths of those surveyed have tried AI features – 41.6% for iPhone and 46.9% for Galaxy.
So, that’s a majority of users not even bothering with AI in the first place and a general disinterest in AI features from the user base overall, despite both Apple and Samsung making such a big deal out of AI.
AI is useless for most people because it does not solve any problems for day to day people. The most common use is to make their emails sound less angry and frustrated.
AI is useful for tech people, makes reading documentation or learning anything new a million times better. And when the AI does get something wrong, you’ll know eventually because what you learned from the AI won’t work in real life, which is part of the normal learning process anyways.
It is great as a custom tutor, but other than that it really doesn’t make anything of substance by itself.
The fact that I can’t trust the AI message to be remotely factual makes that sort of use case pointless to me. If I grep and sift through docs, I’ll have better comprehension of what I’m trying to figure out. With AI slop, I just end up having to hunt for what it messed up, without any context, wasting my time and patience.
I started self hosting AI to learn more about it, and I have come to the conclusion that it really depends on the AI if its bad or not.
For instance, Google’s AI results and just literal dog shit. It is just so factually bad its incredible even. Microsoft also sucks. And this is why everyone doesn’t like AI. The two most common ways people see AI (Google search and Windows 11) is just complete horse shit. They should not roll them out, absolutely disastrous decision on their part all because they were feeling FOMO. For example, I asked microsoft’s AI if the ‘New’ outlook had this feature from ‘classic’ outlook. It said it did. An hour later, I found it didn’t actually have that feature. Fucking ridiculous that Microsoft’s own AI doesn’t know their own software. Embarrassing. Did they not give it their own documentation?
But ‘dedicated’ AI like ChatGPT and Deepseek I can trust to be factual with a 95% success rate. Current events is it’s worse subject.
I really recommend watching this introduction by Andrej Karpathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI
One part that really stuck with me is that the data in the model is more like a fading memory but the stuff in the context window is more like the working memory. Since I learned that I tend to put as much information as possible into the context window before asking questions about it. This improved the results drastically and reduced hallucinations.