That would be, if Google wasn’t constantly killing things that didn’t do good enough. Especially given how expensive generative AI can be to run remotely. Just look at what happened with Stadia
Also, it just feels disappointing. Ever since chatGPT, they’ve been pouring near infinite budget into stuff like this by hiring the top talent, and working them to the latest hours of the night. And the best that they could come up with for the pixel 8 is feeding it data from the cloud.
And I can’t even really believe the whole “consumer hardware isn’t powerful enough” thing given that there’s quite a few ARM processors, Apple especially, That’s been able to build consumer hardware capable of performing generative AI (I’ve personally been able to run stable, diffusion and whisper on my M1 MacBook). Maybe not at the scale or quality of the cloud, but still capable of doing so regardless.