They’ll never take off.
Your phone is a pocket computer bristling with sensors and a permanent internet connection.
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To work well, AI needs a ton of data.
In future, all AI will happen on your phone.Solen Feyissa / Unsplash
If you ask an AI, “What’s that flower?
“, it needs to see the flower.
It needs to know where you are, and where you’re going.
Wearable AI gadgets struggle without deep phone integration.Humane
If you want it to buy things for you, it needs your credit card details and account logins.
That’s a huge amount of work and requires a huge amount of trust.
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But you know what already has all that data?
The Rabbit R1 is amazing, but it could just be an app.Rabbit
Insurmountable
It seems pretty obvious that neither Apple nor Google is going to allow this.
Apple won’t even let you install apps unless it approves them and gets a cut.
Even the likes of Microsoft have trouble building and popularizing a new mobile platform (remember Windows Phone?
), so what hope does a startup have?
The job is just too big, and too hard.
Rabbit
Rabbit has a good approach.
Running on your phone.
The immediate future is more likely to be anAI-enhanced PAN, orpersonal area data pipe.
We’ll have to wait and see, but the future of AI gadgetsis probably just your phone.
