This device replaces apps with AI (A-Phone, A Friend)

this is Thomas and he lives all the way in Lithuania Thomas with his co-founder Thomas co-founded a company called aono friend and they're trying to replace all apps with conversational AI let's build an AI smartphone which cares for you you know like an actual friend who never is an introducing a phone a friend it knows you helps you grows you entertains you it keeps everything in one flow next to all of your WS a smartphone which puts you and not deserving the attention economy at the center that's a pretty hard problem you might have seen a lot of devices in the news lately like this one or this one all of them coming out with a promise of replacing your [Music] iPhone why do you think conversational AI will kill ABS first yes me and my partner Thomas co-founder also Thomas me Thomas so you know it's easy to remember comes from our own dissatisfaction how we interact with mobile phones with smartphones and this relationship between us users and smartphones and the companies and the social media and many many other things we think it's not you know relationship of equals and we can see you know we love our smartphones as humans it's in the center of everywhere in the world smartphone is the center but they don't love us back or not enough and we get you know anxieties depressions all of those things connected to the usage of the smartphones over usage probably the AI has a potential to really humanize the tech because it has this no technology before that has this extremely intuitive humanlike interaction and basically it's you know chat it could be done by Voice you could type doesn't matter basically the way you experience the world where you talk to people you just talk or communicate and apps are not built like this not all of them right I believe eventually apps will disappear but if we would just switch like this and say this tomorrow apps byebye and these are main issues with these new exciting Technologies like rabbit Ai and especially Humane is because it at first claimed get your phone we believe it's impossible the phone as it is is almost you know we evolve with the phone there's no way of getting of the screen we can think of many weird things eyeglasses yeah sunglasses eyeglasses whatever wearables but still we need screen you need to see Instagram pictures they're not going away and you need to take the picture of your loved ones whatever watch videos so this are definitely going to stay but they will gradually evolve into other ways how we experience them right so we thought and our concept had this kill switch you know you can always flip back to your save house to save home of apps you know it very well and then you can go back to the AI friend mode which is completely different how we organize information amazing progress of AI it still will be an evolution we will need the screen we will need the apps they will gradually morph into something else the thing is that at least for the next decade I don't see us getting rid of this thing I think I'm pretty sure iPhone is not going to get obsolete at least for the next decade the problem right now is that most apps are clunky and they require too much effort from us to navigate and I feel like the biggest problem right now is screen time and anxiety like caused by these apps correct so let's say in this futuristic Trend that we're seeing where people are going to switch to phone of friend and more devices like that how do you envision screen time going down using your device the main issue I've seen some dish which apps makes us happiest and there's almost total correl with the amount you spend on screen time it makes you unhappy and the less time you spend for example on calendar on on on some tools right navigation these things are the best use cases I will tell you we have the idea of it's called a radio friend so a radio friend is a very simple idea of creating AI produced audio news for you in the instant extremely personalized your tastes your preferences your desire to have inspirational kind of news or more you know realistic so this is the step towards getting away from the screen listening not you know you you still can read you know with text to voices is not that hard anymore but spending less time looking and spending more time and less time searching and more time more time on whatever you want but just listen yeah handsfree and getting exactly what what what you want how to solve it when you think you know you can do it via the voice or you can just chat you know you don't need it an app you can just say I need like you mentioned examples I need an Uber right now to go home that's it it already knows everything right you don't have to but it will be a pressure from the app producers like uber for example to say wait a minute but we don't like this kind of environment because it's hard for us you know to sell something else you know like premium service and maybe they will find the way or us will we will find you know the dialogue how to do it but just like roughly take it out and just leave it to the voice it will be some kind of friction right between the apps and app producers or companies and just saying we will do it by The Voice which removes a lot of nuance right and what you need if you're ordering something you know I don't know how long it will take but definitely we will use voice or simple things you know one thing we also thought about is that turns out not all people at all like to be controlling things with voice for example me I'm not that Keen on everywhere I go I speak I feel you know like my private space is made I like to type so there will always be two options you know you can type you can talk but general idea a phone a friend we don't have the vision of it actually be becoming a humanlike entity you know friend in a sense that it will be helpful it can cheer you up and can you can talk about things but you know as humans we moved from DVDs to streaming from whatever from paper to many many other things and uh we will move that you know that's the amazing thing with humans we can never sit alone silently in the room we need to do some things so this this gives us there is a possibility that in the future we're just going to have one conversational AI where we just talk to it and and it does all our tasks and also we're not bombarded with ads all the time what do you think do you think we're going to have all the apps replaced by this conversational AI or is that seems like a distant dream