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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 (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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

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

Incompetent and completely out of touch with reality. Crazy to think how big they once were.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

clou

*clue

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