{"id":26882,"date":"2016-06-14T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T04:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/android-inventor-andy-rubin-thinks-the-future-of-smartphones-might-be-a-single-ai"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:14:38","slug":"android-inventor-andy-rubin-thinks-the-future-of-smartphones-might-be-a-single-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/android-inventor-andy-rubin-thinks-the-future-of-smartphones-might-be-a-single-ai","title":{"rendered":"Android inventor Andy Rubin thinks the future of smartphones might be a single AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andy Rubin, who co-founded Android and jump-started Google\u2019s robotics efforts<\/a>, imagines a future where artificial intelligence is so powerful that it powers every connected device. Speaking at Bloomberg\u2019s Tech Conference in San Francisco today, Rubin said a combination of quantum computing and AI advancements could yield a conscious intelligence that would underpin every piece of technology. \u201cIf you have computing that is as powerful as this could be, you might only need one,\u201d Rubin says. \u201cIt might not be something you carry around; it just has to be conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n

It sounds outlandish and theoretical, and it is. But Rubin, with his investment fund Playground Global<\/a>, is investing in companies trying to make that kind of wondrous future a reality. One such company, a quantum computing firm Rubin would not name, is composed of researchers he thinks may one day commercialize quantum devices using standard manufacturing processes. Quantum computing promises exponential boosts in processing power, in part by harnessing the probabilistic nature inherent to the physics discipline.<\/p>\n

Rubin thinks there\u2019s substantial overlap coming down the line for quantum computing, AI, and robotics. \u201cIn order for AI to blossom and fulfill consumer needs, it has to be about data,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s where robotics come in \u2014 robots are walking mobile sensors, who can sense their environment and interact and learn from those interactions.\u201d Furthermore, Rubin adds, both AI and quantum computing are good at pattern matching and could greatly complement one another. \u201cThose two things combined in hundreds of years might get us to the point of this conundrum, who is the master and who is the servant and all that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Andy Rubin, who co-founded Android and jump-started Google\u2019s robotics efforts, imagines a future where artificial intelligence is so powerful that it powers every connected device. Speaking at Bloomberg\u2019s Tech Conference in San Francisco today, Rubin said a combination of quantum computing and AI advancements could yield a conscious intelligence that would underpin every piece of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61504,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882\/revisions\/61504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}