It’s today’s 3D TVs. It’s something investors got all hyped up about that everybody “has to have“.

There is useful functionality there. Apple has had it for years, so have others. But at the time they weren’t calling it “AI“ because that wasn’t the cool word.

I also think most people associate AI with ChatGPT or other conversational things. And I’m not entirely sure I want that on my computer.

But some of the things Apple and others have done that aren’t conversational are very useful. Pervasive OCR on Windows and Mac is fantastic, for example. You could brand that as AI. But you don’t really need to no one cares if you do or not.

> Pervasive OCR on Windows and Mac is fantastic, for example.

I agree. Definitely useful features but still a far cry from LLMs which is what the average consumer identifies as AI.

Not that far away, you can run a useful model on flagship phones today, something around GPT 3.5's level.

So we're probably only a few years out from today's SOTA models on our phones.

> you can run a useful model on flagship phones today

How?

Cactus Chat is probably the easiest.

Just download the app and it has a few built-in model options. The best of those is probably Gemma-3 1B Q4 but on my Pixel 10 Pro I find the best performing model it can reasonably run is Qwen3 8B Q4_K_M.

You can download and run any GGUF compatible model with that app.