Elon Musk's latest prediction: Traditional phones and apps will disappear in five years

In a podcast episode, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted a radical future: in the next 5-6 years, traditional smartphones and apps will disappear, and most of the content consumed by humans will be generated by AI. Musk believes that "there will be no operating systems in the future, no apps; your phone will just display pixels and emit sounds, predicting what you most want to see and hear, and generating it in real-time. We will integrate AI into this device as much as possible." "There will no longer be traditional phones in the conventional sense; what we call a phone is essentially an edge node for AI reasoning, equipped with some radio modules for connectivity." Musk posited that essentially, server-side AI will communicate with the AI on user devices (formerly known as phones) to generate any real-time video that users want. (Yicai)