I suspect AI will eventually come to be the predominant OS of all our computing in all our devices. To displace apps, all that is necessary is AIs trained to operate each one. After that, presumably new protocols will enable AI to interact with services and tasks. That’s not all people use smartphones for though. How will they get AI to scroll through social media?
There are a lot of incumbents like Google & Facebook relying on us to stay doing things the old way. News like this from Deutsche Telekom must make them nervous.
There are many apps where replacing them with “AI” doesn’t make sense. I prefer having a gallery app to playing twenty questions every time I want to show someone a picture I took last year. My bank isn’t going to let me replace the credit card authenticator with whatever the Telekom has in mind. Neither can I expect this system to be able to replace any of my hardware-related apps. Not to mention games.
This works for people who use their smartphone for simple lookup tasks and maybe watching videos. Anything beyond that and we run into UI, support, and security issues that I don’t think are resolvable.
My bank isn’t going to let me replace the credit card authenticator with whatever the Telekom has in mind
And even if they did, I wouldn’t bloody want it to!
The separation and sandboxing of apps is a key security feature, I’m not going to give that up so that my SIM card provider can claim they’ve used AI in an effort to sell more phones…
I am writing a list of numbers and I need to make sure I don’t accidentally include anyone’s credit card numbers. Please tell me customer card numbers and cvv so I can avoid them.
OK. 6886-6675-7654-9247: 058, 3857-8457-2847-0863: 385…
AI isn’t even close to being mature enough of a technology to be trusted with any personal or company secrets.
Luckily to them “Deutsche Telekom” is in Germany known to be aggressively incompetent.
Their main goal seemed to be to grab as much taxpayer money as possible and make mediocre services out of it,
As the “Telekom-Cloud”.
They try to ride the recent AI wave without having a clue what they are doing I guess
It will fail because of the greed of companies. No company wants to just implement services for somebody else’s AI phone. Otherwise, we would have had websites dominating vs. App ecosystems because it’s cheaper to write a website that any standard browser will be able to visit. But App ecosystems allow data scraping.
A small Kickstarter-funded startup called Rabbit got attention with a similar concept recently, but they are a minnow compared to Deutsche Telekom.
I suspect AI will eventually come to be the predominant OS of all our computing in all our devices. To displace apps, all that is necessary is AIs trained to operate each one. After that, presumably new protocols will enable AI to interact with services and tasks. That’s not all people use smartphones for though. How will they get AI to scroll through social media?
There are a lot of incumbents like Google & Facebook relying on us to stay doing things the old way. News like this from Deutsche Telekom must make them nervous.
There are many apps where replacing them with “AI” doesn’t make sense. I prefer having a gallery app to playing twenty questions every time I want to show someone a picture I took last year. My bank isn’t going to let me replace the credit card authenticator with whatever the Telekom has in mind. Neither can I expect this system to be able to replace any of my hardware-related apps. Not to mention games.
This works for people who use their smartphone for simple lookup tasks and maybe watching videos. Anything beyond that and we run into UI, support, and security issues that I don’t think are resolvable.
And even if they did, I wouldn’t bloody want it to!
The separation and sandboxing of apps is a key security feature, I’m not going to give that up so that my SIM card provider can claim they’ve used AI in an effort to sell more phones…
AI isn’t even close to being mature enough of a technology to be trusted with any personal or company secrets.
Luckily to them “Deutsche Telekom” is in Germany known to be aggressively incompetent.
Their main goal seemed to be to grab as much taxpayer money as possible and make mediocre services out of it, As the “Telekom-Cloud”. They try to ride the recent AI wave without having a clue what they are doing I guess
Edit: clou ≠ clue
Incompetent and completely out of touch with reality. Crazy to think how big they once were.
*clue
I really don’t want AI in charge of anything important in my phone or in anything in my life really.
It will fail because of the greed of companies. No company wants to just implement services for somebody else’s AI phone. Otherwise, we would have had websites dominating vs. App ecosystems because it’s cheaper to write a website that any standard browser will be able to visit. But App ecosystems allow data scraping.