Is Your Smartphone Smarter Than You ?

Can smartphones surpass human intelligence? Perhaps not, according to touch-screen technology pioneer, J ames Tagg. "Intuition and creativity cannot be replicated by computers," Tagg said at the Heroes of Mobile event. But a computationally powerful Artificial intelligence (AI) can definitely augment human endeavours.

Tagg, an author and co-founder of international SIM card maker, Truphone (www.truphone.com) , said  that he is keen to use AI in a pragmatic collaboration with people, to fill in the gaps where we are sadly lacking. "As I see it, the job of A.I. is to fix all the things that are broken in humans. Things such as your inability to remember long strings of numbers or often blanking when putting names to faces. If humans concentrate on creative endeavours, we can leave the intellectual grunt work to A.I. to help us go further."

In view of this, Tagg integrated A.I. into the next generation of Truphone. He pointed to those who dial into a conference call from their mobile but need to be on the move, and get dropped from the session as soon as they enter an elevator. Remembering the string to get back in, and the PIN required to re-join the call, is not something at which humans excel. But with A.I., Truphone can reconnect without human involvement using voiceprinting for automatic authentication.

"All this will come to the fore as we are not necessarily connecting people to each other now...but machine to machine within the IoT. "We're moving from a stage where it is not just people traveling and needing international call solutions, but things. All Internet of Things (IoT) devices have SIMs inside them, and they need A.I. embedded to help manage them", he stated.