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Germany's largest telecom company, Deutsche Telekom, says AI will render apps on phones obsolete and is launching a high-end smartphone with only an AI interface. (www.verdict.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

20 questions would be annoying. But, an AI that actually gets what you want first go, without scrolling and searching would be a step up.

But, I think it’s going to be more along the lines of book me a restaurant. Organise my emails and update me on anything important. Get rid of the rest that are marketing.

What’s in my fridge from my recent purchases that I can cook for dinner tonight?

There are a bunch of apps that are just wrappers to input and output data from systems. Calendar apps, childcare/school apps, booking apps, home automation apps, finance apps, search apps. Each could be easily replaced by ai.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

An AI can enhance certain apps, yes. But outright replace them? My home automation system has a customized web UI that gives me all the information at a glance. That's hard to improve upon. Not to mention things like configuring new devices, which can get fairly involved.

Finance apps are sometime I don't expect an AI assistant as described to even be able to interact with. Some banks don't even let their own apps in if the phone appears to be rooted. They certainly won't let a third-party assistant in.

I don't think a phone as described in the article works for "advanced" use cases. Basic stuff, sure. But there's a lot of stuff it's not going to be able to do.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

It won't replace them all, but that frustration of adding a device. Perfect for an AI that can wait for a restart of the device several times which seems to be the fix most often.

Finance apps may come down to a trust thing, but if access through an API is similar to authorization now, I can see it happening. Already some banks give access to third party apps.

Why have an app of you never use it. I would still expect the kind of apps to be replaced would have a web based log in version. For now. Many will keep the apps out of habit but new users probably wouldn't bother to download them unless they needed to, and guess what, the AI would probably seek them out and download them for you.