They were the famous former apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. work in secret on a device without a screen that uses artificial intelligence. But what does it look like? How does it work? We don’t know yet, but the two have recently dropped some hints.
Ive and Altman, who IO products merged with OpenAI While working on the project, they shared more details about their plans Friday at a conference hosted by Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and CEO of Emerson Collective, a philanthropic investment firm.
YES Emerson Collective Show Day 25 Event in San Francisco, The couple argued its success with a second hardware prototype of the device and said it could become commercially available within two years.
OpenAI’s first hardware product is highly anticipated. Adding to the hype is the fact that I have been the lead designer of revolutionary products at Apple, such as the iphone, macbook and Apple Watch. The most popular AI software from OpenAI, ChatGPTIt has approximately 800 million weekly active users worldwide. The hardware design will likely include the kinds of things that chatgpt does.
Altman and Ive said the hardware they are working on is the result of extensive research and much discussion about the implications of a near-omniscient computing device that users can carry with them. Altman described the work on the current prototype as “incredibly good.”
Previous reports suggest that the device Ive and Altman are working on will be the size of a smartphone, but have no screen. The Demo Day 25 event seems to indicate that it will be easy to use, fun and have more personality than most hardware.
Quiet, simple and fun.
The AI project is said to appear more peaceful than some modern devices, although it’s not entirely clear what that means. Altman said most of the devices and apps he uses today are loud and distracting, but the next device will have a quieter feel.
He said the product is intuitive to use and people like to touch it.
“I hope when people see it, they just say, ‘That’s it,'” Altman said, and I added, “They will.”
Altman used words like “simple,” “beautiful” and “fun” to describe the product.
I said most products lack humor and take themselves too seriously. Altman said that it wasn’t until he saw the final prototype that he realized “how much of this doesn’t exist at all and how nice it is to get some imagination back.”
The speech appeared to refute a Financial Times article from October that suggested I had raised the issue. Problems behind the scenes when manufacturing products.