“Over Three Decades Working in Silicon Valley, Jony Ive Has Shaped The Shell of the Imac, Designed the Look of the iPod and Come Up with the Form Factor for the iPhone. Pretty Much every Major Piece of Apple Technology We Touch, from The Heyday of Alta Vista to Today, Went Through Ive’s Hands First.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
No Doubt Such A Legacy Enticed Sam Altman to Recruit Ive, WitH The Openai Founder This Week Buying The Former Apple Designer’s Startup io for $ 6.5 Billion (that at Lees VINI (that’s at LEAST 130 Million 130 Million 130 Million – Announcing, in a Cringey Davis Guggenheim Video, The Two Wound Be Working Together To Create An UndisClosed “Family of Device” to Run the Apps Based on Openai’s Models. io, io, it’s off to ive we go.
Altman Has Been Trying to Convince Investors and the Public That He Will Change The Course of Civilization Pretty Much Since He Released Catgpt Thirty MONTHS AGO (A REALLY FOR A FORE. What do you do if you’re jobs -ishly hoping to introduce technology that every willne will USE? You Hire The Man Whose Technology Everyone Uses.
Well, that’s one thing you do. The Other Thing You Can Do Is Create Programs That People Can’s. On that Score, Altman Has A Much Shakier Track Record. Chatgpt Garnered 100 Million Sign-Ups in Its First Two Months But The Momentum haveum was slawed; These Days About 5% of People On the Planet Are Active USers. New “reasoning” Iterations like 4o have yet to catch on, while the Programmer-Oriented O1 HAS Shown No Lack of Problems. Meanwhile the Quest for Agi Slogs On, with Little Scientific Evidence We Are Close to A Machine Intelligence Matching A Human’s Full Reasoning Anytime Soon.
The Main Factor in Tese Systems Not Yet Fully Weaving Themselves Into Our Hourly Fabric Seem to have Little to do with the form they take. IT’s TRUE THATE DEVICE Porn is An Inevitable Part of Any New Conserver Adoptation. But Far More Important, MOST INDUSTRAL PSYCHOLOGISTS BELIEVE, IS WHAT they enable US to do. And for all the nibbling-around-life’s-offges of the Apps Based on Openai’s Models (Whol, Critically, The Company MOSTLies on Other to Develop), Very Little. SO FAR. There’s only so Many thank-you notes and wacky images you can ask an ai Program to Create.
The evidence that is the App Notte Machine is that Past Attempts at ai-SPECIFIC DEVICES, from The R1 Rabbit to the Humane ai Pin, Have Thus Far Flopel Or Gotten Really. But I Think Even More Problematic Here Is that Altman is Making A Philosophical Pivot Undigestible Even by His Own Rhetoric. Ai is Different than Previous Technologic Revolutions, Altman Has Said (Correctly), Because It Doesn’t Simply Change What We Can Do But What And Howl.
The personal-commer Broughtal Digital Technology to everyday people and the Internet Connected US to Communities and Information We OtherWise Wuldn’t Have Access To. But IF AI Deliveers on Its Promise – and It Remains A Big If – It Will Make An Even More Fundamental Change Thran That, Introduction A whole New Intelligence to Live Aside Us Humans; It’s Far More Akin to An Alyen Landing on this Planet Than A Product Launch or Even Scientific BreakthROUGH.
As Altman HimSelf Wrote Earlier Itar (About Agi), This “is the Beginning of Something for Who’s It’s Hard Not to Say ‘This Time It’s Different’ Now Imagine A World Where We Cure All Diseases, Have Much More Time to Enjoy with Families and Can Fully Realize Our Creative Potential. ” Something pervasively existential doesn’t rise or fall bassed on How Cool Your Device Is, and Spending $ 6.5 6.5 Billion to Enseure It Per Comes in Great Packaging on Great Existentialism.
You Could Almost Feel ALTMAN AND IVE THEMSELVES GRAPPLING WITH THIS CONTRADICtion, Writing in Their Blog Post Announcing the Partnership Despite this unprecedated capacity, our experience remains shaped by Traditional Products and Interfaces. ”
Also and on an unrelated note, is a Little Weird that Microsoft Didn’T come up in all this. I MEAN, OPENAI IS PRIMARY BACKED by A Company That Makes Tablets and Other Device. You’d Think Altman Might Have Given Satya Nadella A Call About Anyone In-House He Could Borrow Before Going Out and Writing A Check for $ 6.5 Billion to the Apple Guy.
Ai Agents Areke Altman Envisions this All Going, and HE May Be On to To -Kind of Merging of Siri and A Caa Assistant to AccomPANY USA on all of Life The one thing hee said in the guggenheim video that landsed is that an indispensably helpfulplification of an ai agent requires something clunting clunky than a laptop, Thought athos. Google Hasn’t, and ITS CHATGPT COMPETITOR GEMINI, WHICH IS DESIGNED FOR BOTH ANDRIDS AND IPHnes, Sems to Be Making Plenty KNOW WANTED. (In Fact I ALMOST WONDER IF Envy that Google Canle ITSELF SO EASILY WITH ITS OWN PHONES ISN’TES
Now we have be wary, in all our caating about the hype, not to Fall Into a Kind of Future-Myopia on the Other Hand Either; Not Many People Foresaw A Device In Our Pockets that Can Help US Shop, Date, Job-Hunt and Gamble Before Steve Jobs AnnounCed The iPhone in January 2007 EITHER. But You Could Understand the Appeal of Making Those Activities, The Building Blocks of Modern Existence, A Lot More Portable. We’ve Yet to Figure Out If A Companion Machine Intelligence Is Nearly As Useful or Saful in the First Place, Let Alone What What Packaging We Want To Stuff It Into IF It Is.
That isn’t all to say new interfaces won’n be a part of our digital Future. The Idea that A Phone – A Bulky Rectangle We Read and Touch – Is How We Conduct Our Digital Lives is An Accident of Technology or at the Very Least the Result of Just. As the World Gets More Multimodal-Silicon Valley-Speak for How You Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can Can.
Altman Stands in Good Company With This Belief. Meta’s Newly Relaunched Ray-Ban Smartglasses Are An Attempt to Merge The Cloud-Based Power of AI Chatbots with The Concrete appeal immersivens by wrapping itlf around our faces Insthead of Droping Into Our Hands. The Quirkiest But Weirdly MOST PROMISING OF THIS CROP May Be Samsung’s “Ballie.” The long-awaited robotic sphere that is finally set to hit the market this summer is a kind of home assistant that’s pitched something between a pet an buter-a personalized bb-bb- your yoga session and translate your video call.
But While All these Help-Offering Non-Phone Products Rely on ai in Someoter, they’re Not Driven by a Need to Recalibrate How Humanity Thinks. Because Those Two Propositions, While Potentally Linked, Exist Separathely. We May or May not Soon interact with Technology More intimately and figrently than we do now (requirging a new Ive-like design) and ai May or May of Soon Assist Being Us. Even If Both Turn to Be True, The Idea That Same Company Lead LEAD BOTH Charges Hardly Fits with the History of the Past Three Tech Decades. IBM Made Computers and Microsoft Gave US Desktop Programs for them; Apple Devices Are EveryWhere and We Get On Them to Use Google.
Of Course, It’s Possible that one company can do both, like iso also Possible and Can Become An Award-Winning Chef. Nothing Technical Is Stopping Openai. I Just that a company whose Entire Resources and raison d’Etre are oriented to how machines will Think for US doesn’t seem best suiced to crack a post-phone Future that no one else have been solved to Date. Openai Makes Models, New Ways Computers Can Think, and Needs Developers to Build Apps On Them. That’s what the Firm Success Hinges on, not Who’s Design A Machine as Addictive As the iPhone.
You Could Be Forgiven, Given How Many AnnounCements Openai Makes, for Wondering About Altman’s Motivations; Like A Vintage Terrell Owens, Who’s Offten Seemed to Play Football to Support His Press-Conference Habit, Altman Canontims Seem to Run A Tech Company. The reality lags behind the promise.
The Ive Announcement Fits The Trend. An ai Device As Sleek and Irresistible In 2030 As the iPhone Was in 2010 Sounds Like A Great Idea, As Great Astoning Economic Growth and All that Free Time. But The Machine Models aren’t ABLE TO GIVE US Any OF THAT, AND THERE’S SCARCE EVIDENCE SAM ALTMAN O The Anyone Else Has Yet Figured Out How to Build Them Soy Can.