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Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
submitted 5 months ago by funn@lemy.lol to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol, who wants these anyways. One more reason not to use google play services. (Though I have google play services on this phone.)

Automatic AI-powered screen lock for when your phone is snatched.

Theft Detection Lock is a powerful new feature that uses Google AI to sense if someone snatches your phone from your hand and tries to run, bike or drive away. If a common motion associated with theft is detected, your phone screen quickly locks – which helps keep thieves from easily accessing your data.

One good thing you could try is use this app:

Find My Device

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Theft Detection Lock is a powerful new feature that uses Google AI to sense if someone snatches your phone from your hand and tries to run, bike or drive away. If a common motion associated with theft is detected, your phone screen quickly locks – which helps keep thieves from easily accessing your data.

Why would we need AI for that? That just makes the function unpredictable. There must be a real solution to detecting this.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The real solution is, a heuristic analysis of the phone's gyroscope and accelerometer data.

Marketing calls that, "AI".

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not just marketing, that's the term it's always been called. Plug a bunch of parameters into a non-deterministic model and you've got an AI, at least by what seems to be the common definition of the term.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago

"AI" used to mean "whatever we don't fully understand yet". A lot of processes have walked the path from "fantasy" to "AI" to "algorithm". Doesn't need to be non-deterministic, the original tic-tac-toe playing software was "AI" at the time.

Until we get some AGI, the term "AI" will remain a moving technological target, and a static marketing target.