10 Futuristic Smartphone Features That Will Appear Soon
4. Seamless Voice Interaction and AI
After years of attempting to make voice controls a viable means of using your phone, Apple finally made the breakthrough a couple of years ago with Siri. Now, Google and Microsoft have their own variants of voice control, making their respective voice assistants vital life companions. But this is just the tip of the tech iceberg. Voice interaction with your phone is becoming increasingly contextual and Artificially Intelligent.
In iOS 7, for example, Siri will talk to you and remind you of things depending on your email content, the time of day, and other factors. In Android M, meanwhile, you'll be able to do things like listen to music and ask what's his/her real name? - your phone will know who you're talking about and tell you. The algorithms used in voice-assisted AI are progressing at a scary rate. As the tech improves, the AI will become familiar with your movements, emails, friends, diet and web searches (all through your phone), giving you advice that will eventually pre-empt your very thoughts, thereby manipulating them.
Eventually, these AI algorithms will come to define us, making us subservient to the very devices that we built to serve us. Until that happens though, let's just admire how useful and clever voice-assisted AI is becoming!