Here's a reply that says: Maybe it's because of iOS...
It seems a bit plausible. Although the evolution of Android is obvious to all, IOS still maintains a non-dating, smooth, and other tags today. More importantly, Apple can move from chip to sensor to UI when AI arrives. Embracing artificial intelligence, this seems to be a bit difficult for an Android phone with a completely separate system and hardware.
There is a joke in the science and technology industry that the lower limit called Android is the upper limit of each mobile phone manufacturer. But does the situation really have to be the case forever? In the sudden opening of the AI track, is it possible to rely on deep technical restructuring and support of the calculations to open a breakthrough? The Android barrier is also catching up with Apple's road at this last level?
At the time of the release of the P20 series, Huawei also updated the EMUI 8.1 based on the Android version 8.1. In this version, we have seen some new product ideas and solutions connected to the AI chip.
From the AI chip to the AI interaction, is it possible to become a shortcut for today's Android phones to meet the IOS? The answer to these questions may be hidden in the AI Hibernate treasure map in the EMUI.
Android's lower limit is the upper limit of the phone?
Is this an eternal paradox?
First of all we have to figure out why Android will become an obstacle in the AI era today.
All this may have to start with the business model. Apple's model is a highly integrated system and hardware to achieve user experience in a totally closed ecosystem. At the time of AI, its chips will be closely tied to iOS ecosystem. For example, we see iOS 11 The AR development environment, ARKit, highlights the need for image recognition and processing capabilities that are highly compatible with computing power.
But in Google's perspective, Android is faced with countless developers, ever-changing product environments, and these functions that require a high degree of integration with hardware are not only unnecessary, but even completely impossible. The end result is that many AI applications that work well in the iOS environment cannot be ported to Android. This is a hit on the famous Android screen.
After all, for Google, the tob business needs Android's matrix to stabilize. The experience of a mobile phone is too bloated. In fact, it is a huge challenge to the Android ecosystem, so Google often controls the hardware capabilities of the end product through the Android internal protocol. .
However, today, it seems that there is no way to crack this barrier. The first is the interactive ecosystem that has grown up and is being supported by Google's deeper integration and cooperation. For example, Huawei demonstrated its difference from native Android in EMUI 8.1. Deep customization features. Also, based on the AI application experience and ecological acceleration capabilities brought by AI chips, it is also making EMUI even more different.
Intensive cooperation has increased the frequency of enumeration and is allowing EMUI's AI experience to be awakened by users.
Broken AI:
How EMUI 8.1 Reshapes the Smart Experience
From an early date, EMUI tried to solve the Caton problem in depth with Google. In the process of continuous evolution of Huawei's hardware and software control capabilities, deep optimization of the interactive experience began to be delivered to the market.
In Huawei's recently launched EMUI 8.1, a deep reorganization of Android and relying on hardware capabilities to bring about new AI imagination, reached a two-pronged balance.
Today, Huawei’s absolute advantage in hardware lies in grasping the NPU technology. It can output powerful machine learning capabilities from the Unicorn 970. Embedding this capability in the EMUI brings three layers of experience personality to EMUI 8.1. It can be said that AI has changed from an imaginary technical concept to a truly tangible user value.
First of all, we saw more precise hardware resource scheduling in EMUI 8.1.
In EMUI 8.1, Kirin 970's more powerful machine learning capabilities allow mobile phones to learn user behaviors in more detail. Smarter scheduling of background memory and other hardware resources for apps with different usage rates prevents abuse of resources by a large number of apps under fair scheduling. Caused by the mobile phone Kardon. At present, this ability has basically cleared the Kardon problem in native Android, and it brings a tremendous increase in smart energy. Behind the double growth of fluency and endurance, AI can be described as a pair of The hand of wisdom.
Secondly, through the smart service to enhance the function of mobile phones, EMUI users are now opening up a new world.
In EMUI 8.1, the user experienced the AI acceleration brought by the NPU, which brought with it the intelligence service capabilities of recognition, perception, active service, etc.: The eye-recognition feature has transformed the image processing capabilities of the Unicorn 970 into image recognition capabilities, helping the user to use Cameras look for merchandise, eliminating the need for keyword search; smart travel assistants provide users with voice guides through the perception of geographical location, and feature images of the scenic area to identify flowers and other functions, eliminating the need for users to find the appropriate App.
This kind of smart service makes EMUI 8.1 not only change the surface of the native Android, but also really touched the way the user uses the mobile phone, simplifying the original operation. This can be said that currently iOS can not do.
More important imagination, the ecological open future brought by HiAI architecture.
We know that the real value of mobile AI lies in the introduction of more ecological applications, revitalizing AI propositions through a myriad of smart brains. Mobile phones provide basic capabilities, and the ultimate innovation is the thousands of developers.
During the interview, Huawei learned that Huawei is currently opening the NPU's computing capabilities to application partners in three layers.
The first is the ability of the HiAI Service service layer to cover the life scenes of express delivery, travel, etc., to make the application service more initiative and timely appear in front of the user. For example, when the delivery information changes, it appears in the notification bar in time, and the user is often removed. The trouble to open the app.
Then, the recognition of these HiAI Engine application capabilities, such as voice recognition and image recognition, is provided to developers in a modular manner. The developers then assemble these modules to the App to provide faster e-commerce platform features for e-commerce platforms. And for the office software to provide accurate picture conversion text and so on.
Finally, there is the HiAI Foundation, which completely opens up the capabilities of the chip to facilitate the optimization and migration of apps that already have their own neural network models. For example, the well-known name painting style imitating App Prisma is deeply customized through the HiAI Foundation, which greatly improves the processing speed. .
From the basic mobile system experience improvement to the mobile phone's own intelligent service blessing to the possibility of unlimited ecological applications, it can be said that the AI value awakened by EMUI is not progressive, but has quickly and accurately found the way to The key to the future.
And in this whole interaction logic, the real thing is that once the user perceives the charm of intelligence, he will never go back and try an unsmart version. This is like in the “Three-Body,” he has been to the four-dimensional space. Will feel the three-dimensional world of incomparable depression and discomfort.
An interactive revolution with eyes and ears:
Where does EMUI's treasure map lead?
Today's mobile AI is only the beginning, but the beginning also means the screening of the past.
When we look at the EMUI innovation, we will find that the real exciting thing is not a certain function improvement, but a major change brought about by human-computer interaction: Based on mobile AI capabilities, Huawei is turning user choice into a user behavior choice. The mobile phone actively understands users and everything, and it is touching new possibilities.
For example, in EMUI 8.1, the intelligent resource scheduling function will intelligently allocate resources through user usage patterns to save power. Users may not even know which programs they use frequently, and what the order of use is, but machine learning. It allows the phone to figure out the rules and schedule resources for users in advance. It can be said that the user is 'selecting' the resource allocation method unconsciously. This way, the user can experience smoother experience and life without any thoughts. It will come naturally.
For another example, in the past, users did not know which applications were frequently applied in which scenarios. However, the new scene intelligence function in EMUI 8.1 can push appropriate service cards for users through the perception of the scene.
In this way, EMUI combines the interaction with the AI task computing capabilities provided by the NPU, allowing AI to understand the user, and AI to help the user make choices. This is a perfect way to bypass the uncomfortable and complex operating experience of Android. In the form of intangibles, users will only discover that mobile phones will become more and more useful. However, if they change to another brand of mobile phones, or even simply switch to mobile phones used by others, they will immediately feel the difference.
A mobile phone experience that approximates mind reading may be the basic appearance of mobile phone interaction in the future.
In reverse, in addition to reading the user, another task of the AI is to read everything. Today we can already see the new travel assistant function in EMUI 8.1, and we can actively promote travel information by sensing the user’s geographic location. Travel guides. In the future, it is only a matter of time for the AI elves hidden in the EMUI to understand all things through the mobile phone camera, which in turn gives the user intelligent assistance.
When we discuss the future of EMUI with us, Huawei's experts believe that there are probably only two entrances in the future: a hearing entrance, a visual entrance. Need complex touch control and APP conversion, only one voice and one action, and then there is heart and soul.
There are eyes and ears, the next EMUI will open the voyage of the mobile AI era on this voyage. Perhaps taking a farther perspective and shortening the time line for mobile phone development, we will find that 2018 is a very important time point. EMUI 8.1 With the NPU, a brand-new relationship between mobile phones and people is formed. A vast new interactive world will remain in the AIUI's AI treasure map.