How long will the smartphone revolution continue?

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the era of smartphones is coming to an end and the world is about to be replaced by artificial intelligence to search for the required information.

Smartphones today are still a necessities of life for many, but the near future will witness the superiority of artificial intelligence projects, which provide immediate access to the necessary information and will accompany the user from any computer hardware.

But this transformation does not mean that smart devices such as phones and computers will disappear from the digital arena permanently, but rather the ways of using them will change, and according to “Google”, the end of the era of smart phones is a matter of changing priorities.

Google has made great strides in developing artificial intelligence technologies. Among the company's achievements are innovations in the field of self-driving devices and the development of the AlphaGo computer software, which has defeated the world champion in the very complex ancient Chinese game of "Go" despite the previous opinion that the game is intractable to the artificial mind. The cognitive systems that Google's search engine algorithm depends on are the fruits of long research in the field of artificial intelligence.

Pichai predicted that the virtual personal assistant technology will form the basis for the expected change in priorities in the field of information consumption. It is the technology that will become the most flexible and embeddable in any digital device.

In this field, Google faces sharp competition from Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Facebook, knowing that competition between digital giants ultimately serves to improve the quality of artificial intelligence services.

So far, a number of virtual personal assistant programs are available in the market, such as “Siri” from “Apple” and “Cortana” from “Microsoft”, and “Amazon” has offered two leading technologies, “Echo” and “Alexa” Alexa.

As for Google, it is working, according to some data, on a project that combines the advantages of different types of artificial intelligence technology, in the hope of achieving a revolution in this field.

Sony's General Manager Kadzuo Hirai previously expressed a similar view, saying that manufacturers of smart devices have found themselves in the situation they were in a decade ago when the world shifted from feature phones to smartphones.

He said that the global smartphone industry has reached its ceiling, and its days are numbered.

He also stressed that there is no one today who does not propose revolutionary innovative solutions in the field of smart phone industry, stressing that the future for a new digital device, but now there is no accurate understanding of what the device will be. Really".

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shares predictions of a near-term technological renewal where, he says, “a new computing platform” will appear, in 10 or 15 years, he says: “Now there are desktop computers, tablets and smartphones. But every 15 years we see a new computing platform emerge.”