Sam Altman: prediction

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…Just the physical form of ChatGPT on my screen or on my smartphone, is that more or less going to stay the same, but the thing will be better, or 13 years from now, it will physically just be an entirely different beast? Because I can talk to it now. Now it does video. Is it just a better version, or somehow it morphs? We are going to try to make you a new kind of computer with a completely new kind of interface that is meant for AI, which I think wants something completely different than the computing paradigm we’ve been using for the last 50 years that we’re currently stuck in. AI is a crazy change to the possibility space. A lot of the basic assumptions of how you use a computer and the fact that you should even be having an operating system or opening a window, or sending a query at all, are now called into question. I realize that the track record of people saying they’re going to invent a new kind of computer is very bad. If there’s one person that you should bet on to do it, I think Jony Ive is a credible, maybe the best bet you could take. We’ll see if it works. I’m very excited to try. Haven’t you already been surprised, how robust it is that people love typing text into boxes? This sort of shocks me in the bigger picture. People are still texting all the time. It’s one of the most robust forms of internet anything. Maybe that will just stick forever, and it’s a sign of our own limitations. How do we get past that?…

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