Google might put an AI button on the lock screen. It’s not clear what it’ll do, but it could be related to its Gemini AI.

  • LiveLM
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    59 hours ago

    But why? Most actions it can perform will require you to unlock your phone for safety, so you might as well just unlock first and ask later.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 hours ago

      I mean, yeah? The same thing you might have used Google Assistant for…

      Some people pay tens of thousands of dollars to have a personal assistant. Assuming this could do half of what they could, it would be super useful to a whole lot of people.

      I’m skeptical that it can, but theoretically

    • LiveLM
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      9 hours ago

      Being able to ask questions about the currently playing YouTube video has been phenomenal for me, it’s the ultimate anti-clickbait.
      Other than that, no, not really.

      Being able to questions about images could open some great automation possibilities, but I’m very much not stoked about sending images to Google/OpenAI/whatever, so until those models with vision capabilities can run locally on a phone, it’s a dead end for me.

    • Tippon
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      31 day ago

      They’re handy for conversational type questions where remembering previous questions is important, but that’s about it. That’s not usually important though, and can easily be accessed through a website instead.

  • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱
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    21 hours ago

    That reminds me, is there a way to completely remove Google assistant and Gemini from a samsung phone?