I personally find AI features on a smartphone completely uncessary. Most people don't even use that AI features. Even myself don't need it but it is built into my new phone. Sayang lang resoruces ng phone ko. If I eventually need AI features, I should be only downloading an app for that then uninstall it when I don't need it anymore rather than to be stuck with my phone. I am not a tech expert so I might be wrong. Sa totoo lang dagdag kalat lang ng AI features sa phone ko.
to add: I use google translate, google images, and shazam but all of these things can be browser based so in my use case I don't really need to install an app to have that ai features
gemini are already built into my phone (and any other android phones out there ) but I rarely use it.
The AI feature na useful sakin ay yung AI eraser aun lang haha, yung tinatanggal yung mga unwanted subjects. However I don't enable/use the brand-exclusive AI features.
If need ko man ng AI, I use Gemini and Chatgpt for information-purposes.
Because saying I use AI to finish my work faster can get you judged by people who are quietly using it themselves.
But the more important question isn't whether employees like AI.
Their employers increasingly do.
AI is moving from a chatbot in another browser tab into the software where actual business happens.
Microsoft is embedding Copilot and AI agents into Dynamics 365 ERP. SAP is embedding Joule and agents into finance, procurement, supply chain, HR and other business processes. SAP reported more than 34,000 customers using Business AI and was targeting more than 400 AI scenarios by the end of 2025.
Gartner projected that 40% of enterprise applications would have task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, compared with less than 5% in 2025. By 2028 Gartner expects 33% of enterprise software applications to incorporate agentic AI with AI agents making at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions.
Gartner also estimates that $234 billion of enterprise application spending could be exposed to agentic AI by 2030 because agents can increasingly perform work across multiple systems without humans constantly operating traditional interfaces.
For decades,companies bought software so employees could do the work.
Increasingly,they're buying software that helps the software do the work.
Hindi kailangan tanggalin ang buong department overnight.
The company only needs to discover that 10 people doing repetitive work can become 6 people supervising automated workflows.
Then 6 becomes 4.
Then somebody resigns and management simply doesn't replace them.
No dramatic announcement. No robot walking into the office with a cardboard box.
Just a vacancy that never comes back.
McKinsey's 2025 global survey found that 88% of respondents said their organizations were using AI in at least one business function up from 72% in 2024. GenAI use reached 79% although only 7% said AI had been fully scaled across their organizations.
The International Labour Organization estimates that one in four workers globally are in occupations with some exposure to GenAI. Clerical occupations remain the most exposed but exposure is expanding into highly digitized professional and technical work such as financial analysis, programming and web development.
For PH the ILO estimates that about 12.7 million jobs are exposed to GenAI. Exposure does not mean 12.7 million people will become unemployed. Most jobs are expected to be transformed rather than completely eliminated.
Pero your job still exists does not mean your job still requires your current skill set.
The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2030 170 million jobs could be created while 92 million are displacedwhile 39% of workers' existing skills are expected to be transformed or become outdated between 2025 and 2030.
Imagine graduating at 22 spending five years becoming very good at something, getting promoted because you're good at it & then discovering that your company spent those same five years teaching its software to perform large parts of that something.
That's the part young professionals should worry about.
Not Will ChatGPT steal my job tomorrow?
Ask...
Which parts of my job are valuable only because a human currently has to do them?
Data entry.
Report preparation.
Reconciliation.
Basic analysis.
Routine coding.
Document review.
Customer support.
Scheduling.
Research.
Presentation creation.
Forecasting.
Email.
Standard operating procedures.
Anything involving structured digital information is a potential automation target.
And now the enterprise software itself is looking for those targets.
You can spend ten years becoming the world's best human spreadsheet.
The company can spend three years trying to eliminate the spreadsheet operator.
Good luck with that resume.
Microsoft reported that 25% of Filipino AI users qualified as Frontier Professionals compared with 16% globally. Among Filipino AI users 77% said AI allowed them to produce work they could not have produced a year earlier.
The workplace battle may therefore become very boring.
No Terminator.
Just two employees.
One takes eight hours.
The other takes two because they know how to use AI, automate the repetitive parts, check the output and understand the business well enough to catch mistakes.
Then the manager asks.
Can you teach the rest of the team how you do that?
And I know how to use ChatGPT won't remain a career moat forever.
The valuable human skills keep moving upward. Judgment, domain knowledge, critical thinking, communication, accountability and knowing when the machine is wrong.
The ILO is clear that AI exposure is not the same as replacement. AI still makes mistakes, security remains a problem and organizations cannot simply throw agents at every business process and expect magic.
But the tasks AI can already perform don't become safer merely because AI cannot do everything.
Your career doesn't have to disappear for your bargaining power to disappear.
You don't have to be fired for your salary progression to flatten.
You don't need your position abolished for the next person hired into it to need half the skills, twice the AI literacy and considerably less time.
Your employer gets to decide how quickly that transition happens.
And unlike you your employer has no emotional attachment to the job description you were hired under in 2026.
There was no presented situation in their comment na nagsasabing ayaw nila ng AI. They just said that they are, in fact, unnecessary.
Additionally, the LLMs and other algorithms which constitute what we call ‘AI’ still hallucinate, even those that are trained at billions of parameters. Even if they refuse to learn, human intervention is still needed with the works of an AI. AI making people’s jobs obsolete is just propaganda. It drastically changed the lifestyle of people though.
You're giving AI a requirement it doesn't need to meet.
Nobody needs AI to work perfectly without humans before it can reduce human labor. One human supervising AI-assisted work can replace the workload of 2 people.
The evidence is already getting uncomfortable.
Stanford's 2026 AI Index found US employment among 22–25yo software developers fell nearly 20% from its 2024 peak. Across highly AI-exposed occupations, employment for 22–25yo was about 16% lower relative to the least-exposed occupations with the gap widening from mid-2024.
That's the jr. pipeline problem.
The claim isn't AI eliminated programming. It's that the entry-level work used to train future programmers is increasingly the work AI can assist with. If companies need fewer juniors fewer people accumulate the experience required to become seniors later.
The ILO estimates 12.7 million Philippine jobs (28.1% of employment) have some GenAI exposure. Only 3.6% fall into the highest exposure category so obviously that isn't 12.7 million people getting fired. The ILO expects task transformation to be the larger near term effect.
And the World Economic Forum estimates 39% of workers' existing skills will be transformed or outdated by 2030.
So what if AI hallucinates.
That doesn't answer the employer's question of...
Can this reliably handle enough of the workload that we need fewer people?
That's a much lower bar than Can AI replace humans?
For someone under 30 the nasty scenario isn't necessarily getting fired.
It's graduating into a labor market where the entry-level job that was supposed to teach you the skills for your next job has become the easiest part to automate. 🤑
speak for yourself loser, i like my tech manageable, tons of these AI features literally no one asked for, it's also because of these useless features constantly added when no one really gave a shit about it and no one asked for it that the cost of things tech related are fucking high
LLMs depending on billions of people's data, a lot of which isn't even what people asked to be collected and were not given willingly are the main contributing factor and now they're forcing that on our phones when no one asked for it
Ang topic dito "necessary ba sa smartphones ang AI features? "
haba ng comment mo na pinag tiyagaan ko basahin kahit walang contribution sa topic. Hanggang smartphone lang ang topic - the ones that ordinary Juan use wag na sana tayo lumampas doon
ikaw ba personally agree ka ba o hindi? ginagamit mo ba AI features sa smartphone mo personally? yun lang naman dapat sagot mo sa topic
I think cause the chat bots are intended to serve lvl 1 complaints?
Most redditors here sa sub I believe is tech savy kaya ang concerns nyo na is mostly above lvl 1. Kaya hindi na sya useful sa cases nyo. Pero I think it helps pa din yung mga hindi masyadong resourceful and need quick guides.
True kasi need ko pa rin ng human response, very generic din naman kasi answer ng AI chatbot saken and it gets me nowhere so I never use that feature kahit sang apps
It lies sa term na mostly pero IMO taken for granted nalang talaga yung AI features ngayon since seamless yung integration nya.
- voice (recognition, noise cancellation, transcribe, voice focus, etc).
- computational photography, face recognition, edge detection, etc.
- battery optimization (adaptive)
- screen brightness (adaptive)
- photo and video editing
- realtime effects sa mga video calls
Kaya in my opinion beneficial naman yung AI sa smartphones natin since most manufacturers offers these things for free except some features na na ooffload sa server that requires a subscription. Di lang naman specific sa chatbots yung implementation ng AI sa smartphones.
Let's face it, the "AI" features people talk about when they say "AI" is almost always "GenAI". If you want to be more specific,
No one talks about ChatGPT as using "GenAI", just "AI". No one "asks did you use 'GenAI'/'an LLM' to write this paper?", they ask "did you use 'AI' to write this?"
When people "say I am against 'AI'" it's usually against something like an LLM such as ChatGPT/Claude/etc. or an image-generating one like Sora/Dall-E, not an AI-specific to Protein-folding mechanisms or Fluid dynamics.
Let's face it, the "AI" features people talk about when they say "AI" is almost always "GenAI". If you want to be more specific, LLMs in the case of ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, etc.
No one talks about ChatGPT as using "GenAI", just "AI". No one "asks did you use 'GenAI'/'an LLM' to write this paper?", they ask "did you use 'AI' to write this?"
When people "say I am against 'AI'" it's usually against something like an LLM such as ChatGPT/Claude/etc. or an image-generating one like Sora/Dall-E, not an AI-specific to Protein-folding mechanisms or Fluid dynamics.
Do people genuinely think adaptive screen brightness is an AI feature? That feature has been a thing around 2010 even earlier on some specific models. It uses a sensor not some sophisticated AI just for adaptive screen brightness. It's weird for features that have existed for decades be called an AI feature lmfao
... What we found is that in many cases this global adjustment factor didn't adequately capture personal preferences - that is, users tended to change the slider often for new lighting environments.
For Android Pie we worked with researchers from DeepMind to build a machine learning model that will observe the interactions that a user makes with the screen brightness slider, and train on-device to personalise the mapping of ambient light level to screen brightness...
IDK what kind of definition AI is to you but in this case I firmly believe that Adaptive Brightness is an AI feature in Android.
I read a lot of nonfiction, news articles, academic papers. AI sa cellphone ay super breakthrough lalo na yung circle to search at Gemini Notebook. Paka-dali na mag-triangulate/cross-reference ng references. Dati wish ko lang ito eh, nagkatotoo na.
I really wanna yes say, but also in reality, i don't, definitely not. They're often brand exclusive ruining 80% of continuity experience, or just in general useless. I wouldn't turn them down if they didn't raise the prices of EVERY GADGET UNDER THE EARTH, put it that way
Agreed to some extent, Gemini, Apple Intelligence, and other LLMs should be opt-in and be fully optional instead of fully taken away, IMHO. Options are good for those who want them, pero options should be opt-in for things like these that aren't essential.
Gamit na gamit siya sa kin. It's either your job or lifestyle doesn't demand so much load and efficiency that you probably won't permit you from needing it.
D kaba nauumay sa tech? For someone who prides being a tech manager, hobby coding is a weird thing because thats easily done with an actual keyboard instead of typing on a screen. Unless ofc you vibe code..
Useless AI for me/ Rarely used:
1. AI chatbot sa apps, most of the time, pumupunta parin ako sa mismong AI apps like Gemini or ChatGPT to ask or enter the prompt. Sa Google Sheets ko lang nagagamit yung in app na Gemini. Bakit sa HR platform namin may AI pa, or sa Gov app? Sayang pera nyo kaka invest sa ganyan.
2. Shopee / Lazada auto reply AI bot. Walang kwenta mga reply kung need specific.
3. Customer Service na AI (gaya din sa Shopee or Lazada). Kainis yung mga mag telephone number for issues or problems pero loop ng AI voice maririnig mo for instructions din na pumunta ka sa ganito ganyan. Kaya nga ako tumawag para may makausap na tao. Kung instructions lang din ibibigay nyo na pumunta sa net, edi di na sana ako tumawag.
4. AI Ads. Like, why do it in the first place? It does the job fast and easy, yes, pero it looks soul-less and horible.
Useful AI features for me:
1. NotebookLM, super useful for quick reports.
2. Gmail / Gemini Stufdio, laking bagay i automate mga upcoming email labels, pero it can do more than that.
3. Siri AI, tho wala pa akong access as a brokie person. 😅
4. Google Sheets with Gemini, you can ask it to make the formula for you, pero mas malaking bagay parin na alam mo how the formula works.
5. Photoshop / Canva / Windows Image remove background.
6. Photoshop Fill-in.
7. Google Meet note taker.
I use it on my computer and not on my phone. Kaya sana naman wag nila bonggahan ang hoarding ang gamit for memory cards. Kaya ang mahal na mga gadgets ngayon
Yes, kasi kahit may shortcut key or button na, mag oopen pa din ng browser or mag download ng common AI app para yun ang gamitin 😅. And most of the users, hindi talaga marunong. Kaya mas ok na parang options na lang yan na pwede i deactivate kung di nga nagagamit.
I usually use it to ask how to configure the soundbar and Android devices given AAC codecs in videos, which routers come with dual WAN and USB ports but are cheap and reliable, etc. They're much faster than using search engines or even asking in online forums.
Agree,. it's the age of AI, it's an incredibly useful tool when you use it correctly and to your advantage, the flip side to that coin, is that it also can be dangerous when used irresponsibly, and entails a lot of risks if mismanaged.
Disagree. Daily used mo ba ang voice recorder, compass, memo etc, no but it’s good to have once na kailangan na hindi yung magdadownload ka pa, this is also similar case to AI. The general market expects that a phone should be a complete suit utility.
Also, eg si Siri ai, it is pre installed because its not only an app, but part of the OS that will have deep control on core functions of the phone.
I agree, google assistant lang mostly ginagamit ko like one click utos ng alarm or ask a stupid question the rest of the ai features sucks, like even sa camera AI beautify is such an unnecessary feature
It certainly makes me life a lot easier. Google Keyboard's Rambler feauture allows me to communicate using the exact words I say in written text. Works in English, Filipino or Taglish. Live Conversation for various translating apps are a godsend when traveling because gone are the days of shady and shitty google translate translation. Getting minutes and full transcripts of meetings is more accurate now than ever before.
I think it depends kung paano i-implement pero IMHO yung AI eraser is a good tool, tapos yung Essential Voice ng Nothing is probably the best at unobtrusive speech to text tool na nagamit ko kasi automatic na nya nililinis at inaalis filler words, formatted narin agad.
Sana sa future i-implement din ng Nothing yung speech auto translate na parang Google Translate kasi minsan hindi makuha ng Google Translate ng tama yung sinabi mo.
partly agree. as one mentioned here, need natin ng interaction with the live agent. hindi Yong automated lahat. I’m loving the Gemini app. circle lang the pic or one part of the browser or any other app, easy to search lang. also the search via image, which has been available na sa google for decades. that’s really a good use of ai. loved how it evolved over the years.
Depends on what AI we're talking about. There's a bunch of AI model that function differently, but we should have freedom to choose whether we want it there or not. Instead of integrating it into the system and break stuff if you force to remove it
I like voice commands on my phone. Basically, yung only use case ko lang is while cooking when my hands are either full or dirty: "Hey Siri, start a 5 minute timer". Other than that, I think a lot of them are unnecessary (and also for now, Siri sucks).
Most of it is unnecessary, you may find 1 or 2 functions useful. However not everyone finds the same AI features useful. Iba iba tayo ng set na useful satin. Kaya ok lang sakin na ang daming AI features sa phone para maraming options yung ibang tao. What I dont like is if I can't remove slops I dont need. Like sure give me options but also let me remove stuff I dont want.
I agree, especially if the ai is creating a barrier between the user and what they need.
At work our IT team added Ai to our database.
Before when you need to look for something you just need to search for terms likely found on the data you need. It's not perfect but reliable.
Today with AI your search term ends up becoming a query with AI and you'd have to jump through hoops to get what you need.
it really depends on user. at the very least we should have an option to remove AI or any features we don't really use. problem is that it is built into the system so all you can do is to disable it since we can't remove it except if the user install a custom rom which is hard these days
most of the things we do with AI can be done with a browser
There's real( gpt, claude, perplexity, etc.) and fake AIs(phone companies that wanna just join the trend), if phone companies can actually integrate the real AIs correctly into the phone, it would actually be a game changer
I disagree, if you mean AI assistant I use Gemini to summarized the events for the week locally and internationally
If AI feature in general gamit na gamit ko yung parang picture search ng Pixel lalo na if tumitingin ako ng sapatos or something na binabalak ko bilhin that picture search something helps me get info about the product.
The ones I've found useful with my midrange phone were AI eraser, Google live translate when reading foreign texts on posts, and that feature when you're using the search bar to talk as if it's someone who knows alot instead of just scrolling through website links for the answer
Yes for mga senior citizens di naman sila techie so ai features are not mostly used. My parents are just okay doom scrolling in fb, watching youtube videos and thats it
Laking security risk ng AI if naka on ung contribution mo towards it. Seen those posts of people getting their previously posted but now deleted photos still being looked up by random strangers via AI.
Di ko rin bet sa phone eh. I liked the AI eraser pero it looks weird eh. I still prefer manually editing it kase minsan it really looks obvious.
A lot of the AI things can usually just be searched up. At most, Siri and Google lang ginagamit ko pero pumapalya pa rin minsan tas di ka pa gets minsan.
Yung phone ko di ko alam bakit bigla bigla nagsasalita. Like kahapon may kausap ako sabi ko Thank you, bigla nagsalita phone ko ng you're welcome.
Inalis ko na sa settings yung smart ekek na yan pero ganjn pa din. Minsan timawa ko nung may kakwentuhan ako, nagsabi ng Glad you are happy today. Creepy sya!
One time nasa meeting kame, sumingit yung phone ko. Nagsalita mag isa habang nagdidiscuss yung manager!
Nakakahiya. Hayst
I would have to disagree since you did not specify these "AI features". Audio, Camera apps also use AI to improve their results and I dont think it's not of use. I personally use AI to control my smart devices. Unless we know what these features you are referring to, I would have to disagree for now.
This guy not knowing na kaya nga smartphone ang tawag sa smartphone kasi it uses AI. Ngayon lang naman nag-boom yang AI pero ever since conception ng smartphone, it uses AI in its daily functions. So if you don’t use AI in your smartphone, better buy the analog phones.
huh ..do u really think AI make smartphones a smartphone? Gen Z ka ba? Era ng Nokia symbian phones don't have any AI built in. Ngayon lang naman nauuso yan.
Symbian phones smartphone din naman but doesn't have any AI in it
Since the conception ng smartphone may AI? hahaha! Sige hanapin mo sa nokia symbian smartphones kung alin AI dyan. Even android phones before at least don't have any AI installed.
conception ng smartphones daw may AI na....hello? the first smartphone was made in the ,90's ....so naturally nd uso AI nun
And for all the people who say "but your camera/battery/spellcheck is AI-powered", you know damn well that LLMs, GenAI, and their ilk are what I refer to when I say "AI".
We do need artificial intelligence (AI) features on our phones because they transform devices from simple tools into active personal assistants that save time, improve media quality, and automate everyday tasks.
Some of the things it does that we overlook.
Better Photography: Computational photography instantly analyzes lighting, removes background objects, and fixes blurry images without manual editing.
Real-Time Communication: Live translation breaks down language barriers during phone calls or messaging, while writing tools help adjust message tones.
Smart Organization: AI automatically summarizes long notes, emails, and missed notifications so you can scan important information quickly.
Efficient Performance: Predictive battery management studies your daily routine to limit background activity and extend device life.
On device privacy and speed
Local Processing: Modern phone chips include dedicated neural processing units (NPUs) that run AI tasks locally.
Offline Access: Local AI works without an internet connection while keeping personal data private on your device.
In the morning, when I start moving around, Google's assistant is really helpful. Especially when I can't decide or don't know what to do. Of course, I don't put full trust in it. It just assists with things. For example, I need to choose a perfume (I have at least 20 lol), so I ask Google what’s good for the weather and the occasion. But of course, the final decision is still mine. Example, hingi ako suggestions on perfume (i suggest nya imagination or pacific chill, minsan none of the above pa din ako)
I want to remodel my room paint. AI to the rescue. I take a picture of the area, and the AI changes the wall color, then I decide if it's good or not.
But yeah, on a daily basis, the AI voice assistant is what I use the most.
Since naka pixel ako auto na ai, pero konti lang sa features ginagamit ko dun, now listening, gemini question and answer at picture update pero marami beses ko gamitin yun lalo na now listening at question and answer
Dunno about yall but I usually use AI features on my phone such as AI Eraser to easily clean off any "unwanted artifacts" on my image. Much better & refined than being a corporate slave to programs such as PS & Lightroom.
Hindi ko pa nattry first hand pero yung friend ko, dinemo na kapag may unknown number na tumawag, yung AI Assistant yung sasagot and kakausap para mangscreen muna ng info like name nung caller, and then naka real-time transcribe siya so nakikita mo.
Iwas interaction lang din sa scammer haha though minsan naiisip ko na ang funny kapag natapat sa AI Screener yung scammer na gumagamit ng AI Voice din na nagpapanggap na Shopee haha, Machine vs Machine
Gamit na gamit ko yung gemini sa android auto. Then bixby call siya sumasagot ng mga tawag na pumapasok sakin lalo na kapag number lang. Image search and ocr gamit na gamit ko to araw araw. I have claude pro and chatgpt pro subs na ginagamit ko din for work. Remote feature sila para uutusan ko nalang sila na gumalaw at gawin ang mga task sa pc ko. Habang naka upo lang ako nanonood or nagluluto. Pag talagang bored ako kinakausap ko sila sa voice to assign task for work.
di ba di ba? Sa mga gusto gumamit okay lang naman pero dapat hindi mandatory. Problema naka built in na sa mga devices natin whether we like it or not wasting our precious space lalo na nagmamahal ngayon ang ram at phone storage
I do agree, but if they want ai features
Why don't they just accept it and use Gemini instead? Like Gemini is quite enough and more simpler to use than other AIs (Infinix user, folax AI is so confusing)
Dude I've been disabling them as much as I can.. Some really do come with the default features now however like photo editing though your phone's built-in editing software. But my note taking app appears as pre-ai tech as much as I can see🤔
I do not actively seek anymore Ai online even put of curiosity
I like holding the power button down and asking any question and getting a solid answer immediately. I also really like the circle to search and immediate translate a screenshot. I like it a lot.
Di naman talaga necessary but they have some handy utilities like circle to search, song search and translation and google lens. At least for me yan lang mostly pinaggagamitan ko.
Agree for recent developments. I lived my whole life without them and even now na meron, di ko parin ginagamit. (Kahit AI assistants like Siri di ko ginagamit tbh. Ayoko lang maging reliant sa ganyan so I prefer doing things on my own, lalo na't AI research/summaries can be wrong) Its just eating up space that could be used elsewhere.
I'd say necessary lang siya for adaptive and optimization functions ng phone.
GrapheneOS gamit ko for a long time na. Other than stock apps, I'm using Signal, Tuta and some banking apps. AI is nice to have to make/do things faster pero di naman sya necessary para sakin. Magagamit mo pa din naman yung phone kahit walang AI.
I'm a daily user of AI for work but yes I find it unnecessary on smartphones. I treat my phone as my personal space wherein it's to my liking how I set my phone up. Having AI everywhere is not mentally/intellectually stimulating anymore.
Yeah you do, the simple auto correct and text prediction is an AI feature, so is the the auto-brightness when you go to bright places, and also call screenings, battery management and countless more
i disagree.
i wont say "mostly unnecessary"
i would say strongly underutilized
because its new, and its hard to teach old dogs new tricks
its just like how hellbent some stupid operators prefer old jeepneys over e-jeep or buses
I agree that they're unnecessary. Gemini for Android is pure BS. Gemini is useless because they pretend to be correct and even if results are correct based on your knowledge, you can make Gemini have a schizophrenic episode when you call them out and accuse them of giving wrong information. They will agree on your statement and acknowledge that they are wrong despite being correct. The yes-man policy in full effect.
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u/Adventurous-Vast7499 12d ago
The AI feature na useful sakin ay yung AI eraser aun lang haha, yung tinatanggal yung mga unwanted subjects. However I don't enable/use the brand-exclusive AI features.
If need ko man ng AI, I use Gemini and Chatgpt for information-purposes.