AI on flights

[Anand S]

I love that I get uninterrupted 4-16 hours on flights, which I mostly use to write future prompts and read past AI responses.

I do miss AI on flights. But after installing Google Edge Gallery with Gemma-4-E2B-it (2.5GB) that runs on my mobile, I've solved a few practical problems.

For example:

• I took a picture of a dish they served and asked: "Is this vegetarian?" (It was.)
• I asked, "Comics have text in panels, often written at the top in a box. Not the speech bubbles. It's like a narrator or voice over. What are they called?" (Caption boxes.)
• "Summarize The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Why is it famous?" (Thoughtful, well-written novel on the choice vs commitment tradeoff.)

It's not a very smart model. It's a bit slow. Transcription is average. It doesn't run in the background. Only one chat at a time. No internet search, etc.

But it's a good reference to have. Almost a Wikipedia I can talk to.
It's a good ideator to have. I can brainstorm. (Hallucination is a feature, not bug.)

I'm sure I'll find more uses.