“I believe that conversation is going to be the new interface. If you actually just take a step back for a moment and look at your computer or even your phone, you’ll see a huge number of buttons and icons on the bottom navigation in basically multi-colored technicolor dreamland. And it’s actually quite an overwhelming experience. That’s because it hasn’t been designed with a kind of unified clean human-first interface as the first design principle. It’s the meeting of these two needs, human translation and the needs of the computer. And I think that the next wave is gonna be one where you spend most of your time in conversation with your AI, that’s the primary control mechanic.
Now, at Inflection, we are developing an AI called Pi, which stands for Personal Intelligence, and it is more narrowly focused on being a personal AI. Quite different to an AI that learns any challenging professional skill. A personal AI, in our view, is one that is much closer to a personal assistant; it’s like a chief of staff, it’s a friend, a confidant, a support, and it will call on the right resource at the right time depending on the task that you give it. So it has elements of generality, but it isn’t designed with generality as a first principle, as a primary design objective.”
