Elon Musk discussing AI and app obsolescence
Elon Musk predicts that apps will be obsolete in the next few years. He explains that AI will display anything you imagine or that it expects you might want, and that's his outlook for the future.
Transcript (en)
Five or six years, apps are like blockbuster video. So if there's no apps, what will people use? Will X still exist? Will they be email platforms? Or will you get everything through AI? You'll get everything through AI. Everything through AI. What would be the benefit of that? As opposed to having individual apps. Whatever you can think of, or really whatever the AI can anticipate you might want, it'll show you. That's my prediction for where things end up. What kind of time frame are we talking about here? I don't know. Well, it's probably five or six years, something like that. So five or six years, apps are like blockbuster video. Pretty much. And everything's run through AI. And there'll be, like, most of what people consume in five or six years, maybe sooner than that, will be just AI-generated content. So, you know, music, videos, look, well, there's already, you know, people have made AI videos using Grok Imagine and using other apps as well that are several minutes long or like 10, 15 minutes and it's pretty coherent. The music's disturbing because it's my favorite music now. AI music is your favorite? Oh, there's AI covers.