While artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize our daily lives, integrating it directly into smartphones presents a challenge: fluency. This sums up where Google stands with its latest Pixel 8 devices, which are presumably aimed to be “AI-enabled” devices.
Here are the details: To be honest, Google’s Pixel 8 phones don’t have a lot of AI on the device, with most of its work being done in the cloud, meaning your data will go to Google’s cloud. This is not much different from this, which is the direction taken by Google in supporting AI language architecture.
The future of Pixel as well as the development process was promising and especially the cool feature like “Gemini Nano” introduced will enable AI. This will especially help with specific text related tasks. Still, this is one of the challenges Google is facing – the Pixel 8 may not be powerful enough. Google expresses inability to put the Gemini Nano on top of the standard Pixel 8 due to *hardware limitations*, such as the Gemini Nano feature only existing on the Pro variant
Both models offer a similar memory configuration, with the obvious difference being the RAM content. If Google makes a mistake on the Pixel 8, it can’t be fixed, even for current owners. They’ll probably have to wait for the Pixel 9 to get a device that’s fully functional.
Additionally, Google and Samsung are moving towards on-device AI algorithms for the long term. By this we also help users to remain isolated and occupy less server traffic. Samsung has revealed issues with on-device AI integration that it has included for devices in the past, although the future looks to be AI-powered.
This seems to be an attempt to gather an artificial intelligence-focused audience by using the term “smartphone AI,” which emphasizes AI capability, which would seem logical! The question remains: One definite question the trend is: will the upcoming Pixel 8 Pro’s AI features go to the exclusive model or will it be used by the standard Pixel 8 models as well? Only time will tell.
