Smartphones Could Be Replaced By A.I. In Five Years

[vt]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...new-study.html

[thriftyandboringinohio]

Re: Smartphones Could Be Replaced By A.I. In Five Years

Thanks vt.

I think we are only partly through some major transitions in consumer electronics.
It seems to me that smart phones, tablets, personal computers, and televisions are changing from dedicated machines into I/O devices.

My TV is my very large, very high quality display with a minimal input function. It is not at all portable but it is right in front of teh most comfortable seats in my house.

My PC has deluxe input from a big keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen but it's not very portable and has a smaller display.

My phone is my most portable pocket sized display with highly compromised input hardware.

I can watch the last season of game of thrones on any of them, and surf the web on all of them.
I can store all my data at a central networked remote location ( the cloud) and retrieve it from any of my devices.

[LorenS]

Re: Smartphones Could Be Replaced By A.I. In Five Years

Phones are hardware, A.I. is software. This "study" doesn't even make sense. Artificial Intelligence running on what platform?

I'm all for better technology. I can't read my smartphone without x2 glasses and my miss ratio while texting is close to 50%.

[seobook]

Re: Smartphones Could Be Replaced By A.I. In Five Years

Ad networks will still want to be able to track & monetize people. And hardware makers want an upgrade cycle which forces consumers to keep on buying (look at the new & ugly iPhone 6 battery case from Apple - that they launched such an ugly add on makes it seem like the non-user-replaceable battery thing isn't for aesthetics but to ensure the upgrade cycle remains as old devices die).

When people carry their own devices around them, they view it as their choice to do it & think of it as an expression of consumer choice, freedom & identity. Take away the hardware & what do you have? No longer a status symbol, but perhaps an ever present piece of spyware which consumers can't even identify with & struggle to personalize?

Quite often a search engine with high confidence in a particular result could just redirect people to the official site without even requiring a visit to a search results page. Apple does this for some searches on their phones, in part because they are primarily a high margin branded hardware company rather than an ad network.

But outside of Apple, the sending consumer directly to a result rather than a search result page rarely happens. Bing will recommend the official site as part of the search suggestions for a query like Amazon, but Google wants to push users through the search result page with a chance to monetize the user with an ad.

One of the reasons why the result interface remains is it allows the central network a chance to arbitrage pre-existing brand equity & attempts to force brands into buying their own pre-existing brand equity every time a person conducts a navigational search for that brand.

To appreciate the value of the control of hardware through the software look at how valuable companies like Apple, Google & Xiaomi are & then look at how little companies like Motorola, Nokia's smartphone division, HTC & BlackBerry have become.

Some of the companies which have sold off their desktop divisions later sold off their laptop divisions will end up gutting their cell phone divisions too.

Almost all the value is controlled/extracted by whoever controls the software layer.

The rare hardware player which remains successful gets opposition research done on them by their "partner" which controls the underlying software.
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co...n-samsung.html

People still need hardware to interact with, or else whatever they were interacting with would feel to ever-present and perhaps a bit creepy to many.

While voice may replace some of the touch interactions for users, certain key rolls will still try to push users through result lists so they can be monetized most efficiently, rather than giving them whatever they want as the correct result via voice without a chance to monetize them. The fat thumb accidental clicks are likely worth into the billions of Dollars per year. And forcing brands to rebuy their brand equity is also a huge revenue stream.

[santafe2]

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I can watch the last season of game of thrones on any of them, and surf the web on all of them.

I've mentioned before that celebrities spend a lot of time in Santa Fe. I suspect it's because almost no one here cares about celebrity or celebrities so they have some space. Martin is one of our favorite people. He bought one of the oldest theater venues in the city, remodeled it and has the connections to bring special events to his theater. I'm not a fan of Game of Thrones but he's a really genuine person who loves to share his passion for great film and theater.