Is the smartphone about to be consigned to history?
What happens when the best-known figure in the development of generative algorithms is in talks with the man who designed the iPhone and a banker obsessed with financing high-impact technological projects?
Media reports say Sam Altman, Jony Ive and Masayoshi Son are working on a project to create a ground-breaking “iPhone of AI”, a permanently connected assistant we can consult through an as yet-to-be defined interface.
Jony Ive is apparently obsessed with abandoning the screen, feeling a moral obligation to mitigate the unintended consequences of the iPhone such as app addiction: he even himself imposes screen times on his children. Masayoshi Son controls 90% of Arm Holdings, one of the leaders in the development of low-power microprocessor architectures used on many mobile devices. Finally, Sam Altman has just recently presented a new version of ChatGPT that can interact by voice and accept images as input.
What could the three be talking about? Getting rid of screens is a good idea: they require our sole attention, as the number of road…
