This Strange AI Smartphone Digitally Clones You

A quirky new mobile operating system, claiming to tease the future of AI on smartphones, popped up at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. South Korea-based startup Newnal showed off mobile software that uses both your past and current data to create a personalized AI assistant. But here's the twist: The AI intends to be… you. It looks like you, acts like you, learns from you, and even grows old like you. The blockchain-based operating system accesses apps and personal accounts, such as Instagram and Gmail, to create a personalized knowledge graph, essentially learning everything about you. According to the company, this is then used to create a personalized AI avatar that can respond and act just like you would. Unlike other popular AI models such as ChatGPT or Google Gemini, Newnal said in a press release that its users own and train the Web3 AI Newnal OS on their data instead of what's on the internet, so no two user experiences are the same. The operating system is bloc ... Read full article.