Gauss we've all got a fresh option for a gen AI handheld: A Samsung device
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2023/11/09/samsung_introduces_generative_ai_on_devices/
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"Samsung Gauss is currently used on employee productivity but will be expanded to a variety of Samsung product applications to provide new user experience in the near future," [1]explained the South Korean giant.
The product, developed by Samsung Research, includes an image generator, a coding tool, and a large language model (LLM).
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The ChatGPT-esque Gauss Language composes emails, summarizes documents and translates content. Presumably the generative language model will be available in both Korean and English – although that has not been specified.
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Gauss Code and coding assistant (code.i) enable developers to code easily and quickly, Samsung said. It also support functions like developing a code description and generating test cases through an interface.
Gauss Image can create and edit pictures based on prompts. It can also convert low-resolution images into sharper ones.
[5]Samsung reportedly leaked its own secrets through ChatGPT
[6]Samsung puts ChatGPT back in the box after 'code leak'
[7]Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill
[8]OpenAI hits the GPT-4 Turbo button plus promises copyright shield for fans
[9]Samsung's results hint it's time to RAM some money into your memory budget
The trio of tools may be incorporated into the Galaxy S24 series if [10]speculative reporting is correct.
Samsung is [11]rumored to be launching the Galaxy S24 series in "early to mid-January".
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In Samsung's Q3 2023 [13]earnings call , execs predicted the spread of on-device AI would provide "additional momentum" to product demand.
Samsung has already [14]said it will bring generative AI to its virtual assistant, Bixby, for use in all its home appliances.
Meanwhile, fellow smartphone juggernaut Apple released its [15]iPhone 15 in September with nary a mention of AI in sight. Its next iteration is not expected until next September.
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It is not surprising that Samsung developed its own in-house AI models. Not only because it would eventually be necessary in order for its products to stay competitive, but also because it has had difficulty in the past with employee use of external tools.
In April, Samsung employees [17]leaked secrets – including sensitive in-development semiconductor information – through clumsy use of ChatGPT.
The incidents resulted in a temporary ban on generative AI tools on company-owned devices. ®
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[1] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-ai-forum-2023-day-2-discussing-technological-trends-and-the-future-of-generative-ai
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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/06/samsung_reportedly_leaked_its_own/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/samsung_generative_ai_ban/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/06/samsung_family_sells_2_billion_shares/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/06/openai_gpt4_turbo_copyright_shield/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/samungs_results_point_to_memory/
[10] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2023/11/133_362828.html
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[13] https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/samungs_results_point_to_memory/
[14] https://m.etnews.com/20230903000250
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/22/iphone_15_first_look/
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[17] https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/06/samsung_reportedly_leaked_its_own/
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Apparently not...
And who may Bixby?
"It can also convert low-resolution images into sharper ones"
Well that could be useful - if it really works.
I wouldn't mind giving that a try.
Re: "It can also convert low-resolution images into sharper ones"
You've got a collection of rather poor quality "grown up" pics as well?
Yet another EULA to sign up to?
My current Samsung mobile has Bixby (complete with dedicated hardware button), which doesn't work as I have steadfastly refused to agree to the "give us all your data" EULA required to enable it. It also has Samsung Health, which I have never used for the same reason. Am I safe in assuming that Gauss will hide behind the same requrement? And all information will be beamed back to Samsung so that they can monetise it?
Or should I just admit defeat and let them gather my personal data, and sell it to anyone willing to pay for it?
Re: Yet another EULA to sign up to?
What you should do is bolster the modern Samsung device firmware efforts so that we can port privacy- and freedom-respecting firmware to them. i.e., try to install various open source firmwares that fit your privacy and ethical models, modify them to work if you have the knowledge, report bugs, write guides for users, spread knowledge, engage with like-minded individuals.
If Samsung won't respect your privacy, and you don't respect Samsung's corporate stance, then do something about it.
Yes, you'll be missing out on all the proprietary features, but using those features requires you to sell yourself as you describe. In my opinion, it isn't worth it.
Re: Yet another EULA to sign up to?
But you're still rewarding Samsung for building such privacy-invading devices by buying the hardware. After you've bought it and they have your money, they don't give a shit.
For me, nothing of theirs "just works" without some sort of issue. A friend bought a 49" monitor and it had major problems waking up from powersave. Another friend has a Samsung dishwasher that doesn't wash dishes.
I just refuse to buy Samsung products.
Re: Yet another EULA to sign up to?
Samsung make excellent cordless vacuums that beat the pants off the market leader's very pricey efforts.
Out of interest is the powersave wakeup issue caused by conflicts between built in powersave and Windows trying to manage the monitor, creating conflicts over the monitor's USB hub? I had that with my Asus monitor, which would sit there incessantly bingly-bonging with a blank screen. I turned off power management for the monitor in Windows and let the monitor manage its own power save and the problem disappeared.
Regarding Sammy software - yeah, POS. But that's what you get - hardware makers don't understand and can't do software, because in their world thinking is "get the product mostly right for no recall and minimal warranty claims, sell once, ship and forget". When the boot is on the other foot, software makers often struggle with hardware because their mind set is "ship a half baked and incomplete product ASAP, iron the problems out afterwards and look to squeeze recurring revenues sorting the inadequacies". Those distinctions between product and software are universal, except for any form of domestic heating control gear, where that sector has it's own unique aspiration of "how can we make this as obtuse, counter-intuitive, irritating, poorly documented, functionally limited and unergonomic as possible?
Have they realised that hardly anyone uses Bixby?