Having a conversation with your AI phone: Why this is the future, and just plain exciting

Mobile phones have been around for quite a few decades now. We went from using numpads, through physical keyboards, to now touch screen keyboards, but the bottom line is – we've always written text into those little bricks, using our fingers.

Any futurist will tell you that writing text in order to communicate with each other online can be seen as archaic. In today's fast moving world – just plain not optimal.

You may have heard tales of the development of brain-implanted devices that are supposedly going to let people communicate instantly, by essentially reading thoughts, but let's face it – this is some pretty scary, far-away future stuff.

However right now, what we can do is make the most out of the generative AI (artificial intelligence) that's becoming ever so prevalent in our lives.

Want to Google something? Fact-check something? Why spend precious seconds typing in a question, then sifting through various websites, in order to find what you're looking for from a reasonably reliable source, when you can ask an AI, and get an instant, concise answer?

Well, the truth is – because like humans, AI can provide wrong answers, biased answers, or just fail to understand you at all. AI isn't necessarily a trustworthy source, especially when it comes to complex and important queries, like medical research.

However, what AI is good for is casual conversations about universal curiosities.

So here's the deal – I gave my phone the ability to have an intelligent conversion with me, and so can you. Let's talk about the experience, and how you can do the same with any smartphone…

Let's have a deeply meaningful conversion about life, with a smartphone

Well, meaningful to us – the humans, at least.

You've heard of ChatGPT – the world's most popular generative AI, that's also free, and used by many for all kinds of purposes.

From having the aforementioned casual conversation about random curiosities with you, to helping you code your next video game, if you're a dev, or come up with fun birthday wishes, if you're organizing a party… ChatGPT, and AIs like it, can assist us in significant ways with pretty much anything.

The ChatGPT mobile app recently received an update that lets it not only understand and answer your messages in text form, but have a natural voice conversation with you. You say something – it responds, you continue the conversation, it does the same, etc.

I've had days where ChatGPT's "voice conversations" feature was on for up to 30 minutes; my phone nearby, just talking with it about random, interesting topics that came to mind – how the pyramids were built, what might be in outer space, and so on.

And I realized something – this is almost certainly what the internet in the future will be like – no more Google search, no more typing at all, just natural conversations with AI.

Speaking of which…

Theorizing with the AI about Apple Vision Pro, AI-powered spatial computing devices of the near future

I had a quick back-and-forth conversation with ChatGPT in regards to Apple Vision Pro, and whether spatial computing devices like it (also known as AR/VR headsets, but Apple likes calling its products fancy, differential names) will replace our phones.

While ChatGPT claimed it's unaware of the Apple Vision Pro yet, it did still somehow know that it's an augmented reality device, so that's interesting. In any case, here's how the conversation went: