Musk: In five years, traditional phones and apps will disappear, and most of the content consumed by humans will be generated by AI

According to Jinshi citing Yicai, in a podcast program, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted a radical future: in the next 5-6 years, traditional phones and apps will disappear, and most of the content consumed by humans will be generated by AI.

Musk believes that "in the future, there will be no operating systems, no apps; your phone will just display pixels and emit sounds. It will predict what you want to see and hear the most, and then generate it in real-time. We will integrate AI into this device as much as possible." "There will no longer be phones in the traditional sense; what we call a phone is actually an edge node for AI reasoning, equipped with some radio modules for connectivity."

Musk posits 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.