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Yet, I find myself believing inSamsung’s AI-imbuedSamsung Galaxy S24lineup and I think you may, too.
This was, though, no mere game to tout Samsung’s commitment to a future artificial intelligence strategy.
Samsung painted a picture of a Samsung Galaxy S24 lineup transformed by its new Galaxy AI.
This is practical AI with a point and multi-pronged purpose.
There was even one that delighted me.
Samsung’s Galaxy AI features are generally easy to use, simply crafted, and often proactive.
In my demonstrations, I saw it find shadows and reflections and offer to fix them with a tap.
I have to assume that saying yes would turn off some percentage of the Galaxy AI features.
Overall, though, I had an easy time trying out some of the powerful image manipulation tools.
The tools are powerful enough to let you sometimes change reality a little too much.
That’s cool but not reality.
But it also does useful things like removing unnecessary background objects so people focus on your subject.
In my experience, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra did this very well.
Still, I can see the utility of live translation in calls.
When I tried it, it was a little more modal and less flowing than I would like.
I spoke in English and it translated and spoke my words in Korean.
My Korean counterpart spoke in his native language and the phone translated and spoke it in English.
We had to hit the mic button each time to make this work.
Still, I can acknowledge that I chat with my co-workers differently than I do with my wife.
Do I need an AI to help me craft a more appropriate response?
“Chill,” Shakespeare," and others come fromGoogle’s Gemini Nanogenerative AI.
This is the one that is small enough to run locally (hence the “Nano” name).
I can appreciate the idea of Galaxy AI making sense of all that, summarizing and organizing thoughts.
It’s something that’s often lacking in transcription software.
Naturally, summarizations of all this would come in handy.
One of the smartest uses of AI I saw was Instant Slow Motion.
It’s a simple idea: add slow-motion video recording where there was none.
For my test, I ran across a room while someone recorded me with the Galaxy S24 Ultra.
If I didn’t know that those frames were AI-generated, I would never have suspected a thing.
It worked perfectly and I bet it’ll be a very popular feature.
I like how this shortens the distance between your perception and search intention.
We don’t always know what we’re looking at.
What the Galaxy S24 lineup and Galaxy AI does not introduce is a new virtual assistant.
Bixby still exists on the phone but you’ll notice that Samsung didn’t mention it.
Bixby is not getting a Galaxy AI or even Google Gemini injection.
Samsung’s AI strategy is not about answering the mysteries of the universe.
It’s not that the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is the perfect AI phone or even thebest smartphoneoverall.
It’s too early to assess those things.
It is though, a rational, well-thought-out, and, in my early estimation useful AI implementation.
