A vegan restaurant test for mobile offline knowledge apps
A tester says the apps were much better than one they tried to build two months earlier, but still much slower and less effective on difficult questions than models that can run on a laptop.
TLDR
A user testing mobile offline knowledge apps says none performed well when asked for the best vegan restaurants in their current city. Specialized travel queries were the weakest area in their testing. While the apps compared favorably with their own earlier attempt, the tester found they still lagged behind models that can run on a laptop. Their hope is to eventually look up facts about the world comfortably without internet access.
