OpenAI wants its AI to work across every service

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1. 15:35

   Let's go to, can we talk about OpenAI? Thank you. So with OpenAI so far, we have like a consumer business. There's obviously a B2B business. There's something in hardware with Johnny Ive. There's a bunch of other potential stuff that looks like it's kind of hanging around. Can you talk about like what's the potential complete apparatus or what's the apparatus at least in some period of time? Yeah, I think what consumers want from us eventually is an AI companion.

2. 16:00

   for lack of a better word, that lives in the ether and that is helping them in all these ways through all these surfaces and all these products. And that gets to know you and your goals and what you want to accomplish and your information. And sometimes you'll like type in it with inside of ChatGPT. Sometimes you'll be using a more like entertainment focused version. Sometimes you'll be using other services that will have like integrated with our platform.

3. 16:26

   sometimes you'll be using our new device and but what you will have is this thing that will just be helping you get done whatever you want to get done like sometimes it's pushing stuff to you sometimes you're like asking questions sometimes it's just there like observing and getting better for the future but that is eventually what i think it'll feel like is this is my we don't quite have the right word for it my ai companion is the best i can do right now do you think we have like the wrong form factor with all of our stuff right now like computing yes uh wrong is too strong of a word i don't think we have like the optimal thing we we there have basically been two revolutions in computer form factors interfaces whatever you want to call it that i think it really mattered i mean there was like stuff a long time ago but neither you know i were paying

4. 17:16

   attention but in our lifetime there's been uh like this kind of a computer like a keyboard a mouse and a monitor which is pretty awesome and pretty general purpose um and then there's been like touch devices that you carry around and honestly those are the big ones both of those had the constraints of not having ai and so there's like things that you had to build or that you could run or not if you have this incredible new technology you can maybe get much closer to the kind of computer that exists it that exists in sci-fi that'll be the same intelligence just in a new form factor which lets you use it differently yeah but the form factor really matters because it's with you all the time that could be one reason it really matters if it's like with you all the time and full of sensors and kind of just understands what's happening and

5. 18:03

   you know let's keep track keeping track of a lot of stuff and also if you trust that like with a very small command you can get something complex to happen and happen correctly like you can just imagine very different kinds of devices what are the other components that you're thinking about right now like so there's like you know there's obviously the way that like chat is getting used by consumers there's the api that you know startups are using all over the place there's this like device thing like what are the other like big legs of the stool i think the most important one that the world hasn't really thought about yet is what it means for this to be a platform that everything integrates into and that integrates everywhere so that when you're using the other when you're in your car or when you're using some other website or whatever it's

6. 18:45

   just perfect continuity. I think that will matter a lot. There are new kinds of things to build. There are totally new kinds of ways to think about productivity, new kinds of ways to think about social entertainment. But I think the ubiquity will be one of the defining pieces. Given that the intelligence has such strong implications through all of