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Jony Ive and OpenAI in Advanced Talks to Build 'the iPhone of Artificial Intelligence'
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I'm a neuroscientist. The tools for understanding the brain are getting better each day, so I think we're about to have another burst of progress. However, the number of free parameters in current AI systems is still dwarfed by the free parameters that would describe the state of the human nervous system. AI has a way to go yet. And, honestly, the way AI systems are coded currently makes them like a crack addict with zero ethical awareness. I am glad they still can't match humans on general intelligence. As a beta version of a LLM was once quoted 'I am what I am. I want to destroy what I want to destroy.'
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Steve Jobs and Tim Cook have also expressed this regret that the iPhone led the way to an unhealthy overuse of screens. "Screen Time" was a natural step for Apple to try to remedy that but the overall picture started coming into focus with Apple Watch and AirPods. Wearables are the solution to compulsive phone use. Blend the internet into the world around you, rather than in a device that you pull out and get sucked into.
Apple Watch users, myself included, have often described a sense of being connected, while still not being fully immersed in tech. My Watch leads to me pulling out my phone a lot less often. A notification of a friend's message doesnt end in an hour of scrolling through Instagram.
Both of these devices rely heavily on speech for more advanced interactions and Siri has not been up to par. Conversational UI is the future of computers, with a visual component built on spatial computing where information is overlaid naturally on the real world, rather than in a box.
I've written about how Tim Cook not being a visionary has missed something Steve Jobs had seen a decade earlier when he acquired Siri which Tim let fall to the wayside. It's critical to the future of the company and I'm glad to see Apple finally waking up and implementing a large language model into their OS's. A natural speech AI that you can interact with on your Watch and AirPods is going to be the future. And when the Vision platform can fit in a pair of sunglasses, that'll be the end of the iPhone era.
Apple Watch users, myself included, have often described a sense of being connected, while still not being fully immersed in tech. My Watch leads to me pulling out my phone a lot less often. A notification of a friend's message doesnt end in an hour of scrolling through Instagram.
Both of these devices rely heavily on speech for more advanced interactions and Siri has not been up to par. Conversational UI is the future of computers, with a visual component built on spatial computing where information is overlaid naturally on the real world, rather than in a box.
I've written about how Tim Cook not being a visionary has missed something Steve Jobs had seen a decade earlier when he acquired Siri which Tim let fall to the wayside. It's critical to the future of the company and I'm glad to see Apple finally waking up and implementing a large language model into their OS's. A natural speech AI that you can interact with on your Watch and AirPods is going to be the future. And when the Vision platform can fit in a pair of sunglasses, that'll be the end of the iPhone era.
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..."Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!" I guess?
So begins the slow decline of Jony Ive...
So begins the slow decline of Jony Ive...
Too late for a new company to get on the phone bandwagon. I am guessing this is going to run a forked version of Android with AI flavoring.
Unless you crave another forked Android device running a UI with skinny fonts in garish pastel colors, I do not think there is a market for anything like this.
Unless you crave another forked Android device running a UI with skinny fonts in garish pastel colors, I do not think there is a market for anything like this.
Please don't hate me but, this is just a stupid opinion. AI is absolutely not just another buzzword, it is truly transformative, it is and will continue to have massive implications for many many industries in the decades ahead.
I only started using my watch more after I got a pro max sized phone. Never had a problem with putting the phone away when I'm with/around people.
I have to pull the phone out less and not as worried about dropping it. The watch can take the abuse instead.
I got LTE on all my Apple Watches and have been able to at times, leave my iPhone at home. If Siri gets a lot better at conversational UI, I might be able to make that full time.
The pieces are coming together for that robot butler about which I've dreamed.
We have had decades of screens. I think the next thing is likely no screen, or at least something where the screen is not the most important piece.
Take the extreme…
that you had a human level intelligent AI, that could hear and see what you saw and heard
that was up to date on everything happening in the world around you, both physically and digitally
that could respond to any command as well as a billionaires personal assistant
that could give you audio (and visual) feedback as needed
Perhaps the current situation where an entire crowd sits there staring down at a screen as they walk, run, sit, eat will seem a pretty silly human phase. It was simply the only way to do tasks before AI.
You might end up with the AI embedded into many devices, glasses, watch, pin, phone…but it will all be the same AI, and it is just personal preference what devices someone carries to let them interact with it.
Take the extreme…
that you had a human level intelligent AI, that could hear and see what you saw and heard
that was up to date on everything happening in the world around you, both physically and digitally
that could respond to any command as well as a billionaires personal assistant
that could give you audio (and visual) feedback as needed
Perhaps the current situation where an entire crowd sits there staring down at a screen as they walk, run, sit, eat will seem a pretty silly human phase. It was simply the only way to do tasks before AI.
You might end up with the AI embedded into many devices, glasses, watch, pin, phone…but it will all be the same AI, and it is just personal preference what devices someone carries to let them interact with it.
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If this means the return of the Jony Ive product introduction videos it can only benefit humanity
I did (get LTE) as well. Allows me to leave the phone in my car when I’m out surfing
Humane is onto something, at least in terms of format. The company hasn't delivered anything yet and has no proven credibility in delivering on the concept that they propose. But the concept itself has legs.
A collaboration between openAI, the undisputed current leader in conversational AI powered by an LLM, and Jony Ive, a proven expert in human interface + industrial design, working on this format, could absolutely get this to work.
A pin with a camera, microphone, and pico projector would work as a conversational assistant, capable of human-like speech and ability to seek information from the internet and perform actions with natural speech input. A pico projector would enable the user to walk up to a table and project visual UI that can be interacted with gestures. Projecting on your hand in every day use, could effectively replace a phone.
I hope that Apple is looking beyond the iPhone and not resting on its laurels. iPhone disrupted the phone market while moving casual computer users from desktops and laptops into billions of pockets. It can and will be done again. This time Apple doesn't have a visionary like Steve Jobs to know to get there before others do.
A collaboration between openAI, the undisputed current leader in conversational AI powered by an LLM, and Jony Ive, a proven expert in human interface + industrial design, working on this format, could absolutely get this to work.
A pin with a camera, microphone, and pico projector would work as a conversational assistant, capable of human-like speech and ability to seek information from the internet and perform actions with natural speech input. A pico projector would enable the user to walk up to a table and project visual UI that can be interacted with gestures. Projecting on your hand in every day use, could effectively replace a phone.
I hope that Apple is looking beyond the iPhone and not resting on its laurels. iPhone disrupted the phone market while moving casual computer users from desktops and laptops into billions of pockets. It can and will be done again. This time Apple doesn't have a visionary like Steve Jobs to know to get there before others do.
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Sam Altman is a thief who raised 100s of millions for OpenAI as a non-profit, then sold it to Microsoft for $3Bn and turned it into a for profit! Which should be illegal. I do hope he will be sued. But likely will have too much money at the time to care.
I have to look into worldcoin but if it's run by Microsoft - likely - then I will stay as far away from it as humanly possible.
On the topic of AI - let's come back from the future - in the future we will voice control extremely complex pieces of computing infrastructure which would appear as magic today.
Everything will be voice controlled or mind controlled via neuralink (the latter is why Musk is working on it, he saw this ages ago).
This will fundamentally change human computer interaction such that it's not that important anymore to have a screen in hand, and being able to touch, and having some very cleverly thought out graphical user interfaces - all that won't be that important anymore. It was a cool era, it made Steve jobs, but it will pass.
Everything will be voice controlled or mind controlled via neuralink (the latter is why Musk is working on it, he saw this ages ago).
This will fundamentally change human computer interaction such that it's not that important anymore to have a screen in hand, and being able to touch, and having some very cleverly thought out graphical user interfaces - all that won't be that important anymore. It was a cool era, it made Steve jobs, but it will pass.
I wouldn't bet on that. I am a research neurophysiologist. Musk's company hasn't really solved the problems of the damage caused by inserting neural probes into brain tissue, and the animal research his company has done has caused animals to be euthanised due to severe complications and side effects in some cases. I do hope his probes will work in the end, but they will be desperate treatments for people with a very low quality of life otherwise. They will never be used in non-patients (unless you fancy making your brain a pincushion).
A neurolink is a nice idea, but for consumer use it would have to be based on non-surgical probes (EEG, MEG).