AI will be the boss of you
Smartphones. We already can’t live without them. They are so heavily integrated into our lives and everything else around us that we’d be lost without our preciousssss...
And if this year’s major developer conferences are anything to go by, we’re going to be relying on them even more. I’m talking about AI.
Merely a year ago, we were only in the realm where AI was used to analyze and identify things, such as sorting of your photo album. Machine learning algorithms helped improve vision and voice recognition by leaps and bounds so apps that offered language translation and object identication actually became useful.
But the next generation is nigh. From Apple’s WWDC and Google’s I/O conferences, I can see AI progressing to the point where it will begin actively engaging the user rather than just being a passive analyst of our data.
Google showed off a natural-sounding voice call with an AI assistant and Gmail will be able to predict and nish complete sentences; not just the word you’re typing. Apple’s Siri will have integrated with other apps so talking to your phone to get it to do things will become more commonplace, while both Apple and Google showed real use for AR (augmented reality) outside of gimmicky gaming stuff we’ve seen the past two years.
And how about Microsoft? Well, they continue to play it smart by increasing integration with Apple and Google instead of competing directly. I for one welcome a holistic PC and mobile ecosystem.
What do all these updates mean? We won’t just be using our smartphones to do things, but our smartphones will soon do things for us whether we want them to or not.
I’m all for AI automation, but there’s this little voice at the back of my head just waiting for the AI uprising and human enslavement to tell me, “I told you so...”