Sam Altman Says The Prototype AI 'thing' He's Making With Jony Ive...

Altman hopes when people see the former Apple design guru's device they will say, 'that's it?' It's going to be here in under two years so I guess we'll see.

Open AI has the first prototype of its mysterious AI device being developed in collaboration with former Apple design guru Jony Ive. And according to CEO Sam Altman, it's "jaw droppingly good."

To quote Altman in full on the the device, "finally we have the first prototypes and I can't believe how jaw droppingly good the work is." But what, exactly, is it? Altman was recently joined on stage by Ive for an interview with the Emerson Collective. But both Altman and Ive were thoroughly cryptic when describing this AI "thing" they have created.

It turns out that it was actually Ive that first contacted Altman with a "tentative thesis", a "thought", about the nature of objects and our interface with them. It was a very general idea, not a product. Which was...?

"It was to do with... no I can't share it, can I?" Ive says.

At most, Altman is willing to explain what he says is the "vibe" around the device. "One of the things that has gone wrong is that when I use current devices or most applications, I feel like I am walking through Times Square in New York, constantly dealing with all the little indignities along the way. Flashing lights in my face, attention going here, people bumping into me, noises going off," he explains, "it's an unsettling thing."

"I understand how we got here, but I don't think it's making any of our lives peaceful and calm," Altman goes on. The solution, it seems, is something both more intelligent and simpler.

"An early thing we talked about with the devices we hope to build is, if you have this really smart AI that you trust to do things for you over long periods of time, to filter things out, be able to be contextually aware of when it should—not really bother you but when it should present information to you or ask for your input and it has this incredible contextual awareness of your whole life—you can then go for a vibe that is not like walking through Times Square and getting bumped into but sitting in the most beautiful cabin by a lake in the mountains and enjoying the peace and calm."

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Ive adds that, "I love solutions that teeter on appearing almost naive in their simplicity. I also love incredibly intelligent, sophisticated products that you want to touch, and you fee

Source: PC Gamer