\u201cWhen people see it, they say, \u2018that\u2019s it?\u2026 It\u2019s so simple.\u201d <\/p>\n
That\u2019s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes how he thinks people will respond to seeing the company\u2019s forthcoming AI hardware device for the first time. <\/p>\n
The device is the result of the collaboration between OpenAI and Apple\u2019s former chief designer Jony Ive. Not much is known yet about the product except that it\u2019s rumored to be \u201cscreenless<\/a>\u201d and pocket-sized<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, OpenAI acquired Ive\u2019s design startup, io<\/a>, to bring AI to the masses through some sort of tech gadgetry. This weekend, Altman and Ive talked more about their vision for their AI device in an interview led by Laurene Powell Jobs at Emerson Collective\u2019s 9th annual Demo Day<\/a> in San Francisco. <\/p>\n Although OpenAI isn\u2019t sharing specifics about the device, which is now a prototype, Ive and Altman were keen to describe the product in terms of its \u201cvibe.\u201d<\/p>\n Most notably, Altman compared the device to the iPhone, dubbing the Apple smartphone the \u201ccrowning achievement of consumer products\u201d thus far. He said he could define his life as those times before the iPhone and after. <\/p>\n However, Altman complained that modern technologies are filled with distractions. <\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco \u201cWhen I use current devices or most applications, I feel like I am walking through Times Square in New York and constantly just dealing with all the little indignities along the way \u2014 flashing lights in my face\u2026people bumping into me, like noise is going off, and it\u2019s an unsettling thing,\u201d he said. The bright, flashing notifications and the dopamine-chasing social apps are where today\u2019s devices are going wrong, Altman believes. <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s making any of our lives peaceful and calm and just letting us focus on our stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The vibe of the AI device, meanwhile, would be more like \u201csitting in the most beautiful cabin by a lake and in the mountains and sort of just enjoying the peace and calm,\u201d Altman noted. <\/p>\n The device he described should be able to filter things out for the user, as the user would trust the AI to do things for them over long periods of time. It should also be contextually aware of when it\u2019s the best time to present information to the user and ask for input. <\/p>\n \u201cYou trust it over time, and it does have just this incredible contextual awareness of your whole life,\u201d Altman added. <\/p>\n Ive confirmed at the event that the device should be available in under two years. <\/p>\n \u201cI love solutions that teeter on appearing almost naive in their simplicity,\u201d Ive told Powell Jobs in the interview. \u201cAnd I also love incredibly intelligent, sophisticated products that you want to touch, and you feel no intimidation, and you want to use almost carelessly \u2014 that you use them almost without thought \u2014 that they\u2019re just tools,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen people see it, they say, \u2018that\u2019s it?\u2026 It\u2019s so simple.\u201d That\u2019s how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman describes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,203,61,60,88787,1682,7689,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-157849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-gadgets","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-johy-ive","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-sam-altman","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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