[oittaa]

A rare case of actually useful AI features. Thumbs up!

[duxup]

Is it AI or just ... recognizing a pattern?

How much data could it have to look at in the time that someone "snatches" a phone?

[SushiHippie]

The article continues with:

> If a common motion associated with theft is detected, your phone screen quickly locks – which helps keep thieves from easily accessing your data.

So it's probably a machine learning model that was trained on motion data of snatches, but it's likely not AI in the sense of LLMs.

But I wonder how many false positives this could yield. For example you are in a hurry and you snatch your phone from a table. How precicesly can this model decide with just motion data, if this was theft or not.

[commoner]

There are free and open source apps for Android that automatically lock the device when the accelerometer detects rapid acceleration, which is a simple detection method. For example, Private Lock is on F-Droid:

- Private Lock (source): https://github.com/wesaphzt/privatelock

- Private Lock (F-Droid): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.wesaphzt.privatelock/

[Cheer2171]

Linear regressions are machine learning.

[cflewis]

AFAICT all machine learning models right now are just pattern matching.

[immibis]

AI is another word for training-based computerized pattern recognition.

[medo-bear]

:) So one way I immagine it does this is by listening in on your microphone to determine a distress signal. Up to you if you think this is cool. In general people should ask themselves do they really want a semi-intelligent program someone else trained "living" in their phone. Yikes. I tried to uninstall the neural network package on my Android but it is impossible since it is an actual system package. Why on earth it should be an Android system package is beyond me. Moreover this issue persists even if you use a de-Googled privacy and security focused distribution like GrapheneOS

[vntok]

Yes but that's only in your imagination, it's not how the feature works. The feature works based on motion detection trained on specific "theft patterns".