OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that AI is still awaiting its iPhone moment, and that he needs to learn a key lesson from Apple.
He also admits that he was overly ambitious in his idea of how quickly AI would disrupt the economy, but thinks that, paradoxically, the tech will create new opportunities for businesses that don’t use it …
AI awaiting the iPhone moment
Altman made the comments in a David Senra podcast episode reported by TNW. He likened the current AI era to the smartphone days prior to the launch of the iPhone. Many of us in the tech world owned Windows CE, Nokia, and PalmOS devices from the mid-1990s, but it was the iPhone that transformed smartphones from nerdy pocket computers to mass-market devices.
Altman compared the current phase to smartphones before Apple arrived. He had a Palm Treo around 2003 […] “We have all of the technological pieces, but we have not had the iPhone moment of completely changing how someone interfaces with technology.”
