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2018 has been one of many interesting technological advancements. One of the main highlights in the tech sphere for the year is the advancement in artificial intelligence (AI). In so many areas, AI has been touted as the next big thing. As it stands now we have seen it being integrated into so many aspects of what we do from smart home devices, as chabots & assistance on various Online platforms, more intelligent search engines, & even apps that are now learning your preferences & delivering tailored Content such as Netflix or Spotify & so on.
AI & smartphones: the meeting point
The ultimate goal of AI creators has always been to create robot or machines that can perform human-like functions & deliver it faster & more efficiently. The aim is to create machines that are aware of their environment & can carefully make adjustments to suit the need of their users a process otherwise referred to as machine learning. With that in mind, it makes perfect sense that smartphone users are trying their best to incorporate AI into their devices.
Smartphone giants Google & Apple have already worked on integrating AI into the processors of their Pixel & iPhone devices. The year 2018 also saw Android smartphones join in on the AI race as well with more & more brands releasing phones with several enhanced features that are aimed at helping these phones interact better with their environment & thus enhance the experience of users.
Here are 4 of the top ways AI have already changed the ways smartphones work:
- Cameras
This is, of course, one of the most popular applications of AI on mobile devices. The latest iPhone, Google Pixels & even Android devices like Huawei & Asus now come with AI integrated into the way the cameras of these smartphone work. This has transformed & drastically improved the way smartphone cameras work.
AI makes it possible for smartphone cameras to identify objects whose photo is being taken & tweak the camera settings automatically to capture the best image of the subject possible. People who take a photo of the landscape, food, etc, can now take better pictures with their phones as their ultimate assistance.
You don’t have to be a food photographer to enjoy these features — the same works for snapping more mundane things like your face as well. AI makes it possible for smartphone cameras to easily identify facial features within the camera frame & enhance the camera automatically to take better portraits.
- Security
Towards the end of 2017, Apple announced that the face unlock feature on its then-new iPhone X will incorporate AIs & ML into the way the facial identification system works. This will make it possible for the device to identify the users face better. So far the feature has become an integral part of almost every new smartphone system nowadays making it possible to identify the users face even when changes such as beards are on the face.
Another aspect of security where smartphones have gotten even smarter thanks to AIs is in the area of cybersecurity. Incorporating AI into smartphone have not made it possible for them to better analyze apps, & Websites for vulnerabilities & warn users in time thus improving data security overall.
- AIs, Mobile devices & the Internet of Things
Smartphones have always been an essential link in the development of smart home devices that communicate with each other. As more & more devices are now being built to better communicate with each other & at the same time function on their own, users can now control & better monitor their devices with their smartphones as the middlemen. With AIs smartphone can learn user preferences & habits which help them to better tailor the functionalities of the devices you control them with.
- Overall performance
Another way AI has been important & will prove to be of greater importance in coming days is helping the smartphones attain greater utility by improving how the devices handle apps & our interactions with them. For example, the Zenfone 5 series from Asus is not only better optimized to run heavy-duty applications but can also predict its users frequently used apps & the one you want to use next. Huawei’s P20 & Mate 10 series of devices are also designed for optimum performance by leveraging Artificial intelligence as well. With features such as Smart Multitasking screen, better app performance & they can even carry out translations in real-time during calls.
Conclusion
We have come a long way since the 1st smartphones. But new advancement, especially in AI, is bringing new applications & functionalities to our devices. In coming years, we will see even bigger advancements that might prove that the smartphones of the past were not that smart after all when you compare their functionality to what the smartphones of the future will be able to do thanks to AI.
