In a recent interview with Cory Levy, founder of Z Fellow, at the Internapalooza event, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that within the next six months, AI could reach a point where a descendant of ChatGPT can watch your screen, record meetings and calls, and have complete context of your life.
“I think we are close to a world where you can have a descendant of ChatGPT, watch your computer screen all the time, watch every meeting you’re in, record every call, everything like that, have perfect context of your whole life, everything you see,” Altman said.
Altman explained that users can choose what information they want the AI to access by connecting it to services such as text messages, email, documents or Slack.
“You choose what information you want it to have, but it can go, you can connect it to your texts or email or docs or Slack or whateve,” he said.
According to him, AI would not make decisions on the user’s behalf but could work alongside them by helping manage the huge amount of information they deal with every day.
For example, a startup CEO may not have enough time to read every piece of customer feedback or keep track of every detail. In such cases, the AI could assist with tasks such as writing a sales pitch for a customer or preparing a strategy document.
The OpenAI CEO also stressed that AI could also act like a helpful colleague by suggesting new ideas or pointing out possible mistakes.
“It’ll just say like, hey, maybe here’s another idea or I think you’re making a mistake here. You should consider this or I can do this thing for you to help and like this, I think we’re only like one model generation away from this actually being incredibly useful,” he said.
Altman said he hopes this could eventually change how work is done inside AI labs, including his own.
