- OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman ranked Apple’s Vision Pro headset as the second-most impressive tech since the iPhone.
- He believes only artificial intelligence has surpassed the iPhone’s impact.
- Altman sees transformative AI like ChatGPT exceeding all recent innovations.
In a provocative ranking, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pegged Apple’s mixed reality headset Vision Pro as the “second most impressive” technological leap since the 2007 iPhone launch.
For Altman, only artificial intelligence has surpassed Apple’s industry-shaking smartphone in recent impact and wow factor.
Why is Vision Pro a game changer?
In an online post, Altman praised the ambitious Vision Pro as heralding the next computing paradigm shift in how we engage with information, akin to the iPhone’s mobile revolution.
However, as CEO of leading AI lab OpenAI creator of ChatGPT, Altman clearly believes transformative technologies like conversational AI hold unsurpassed innovation potential after the seminal iPhone.
AI vs Apple: shaping the future
While enthusiastic about Vision Pro, Altman took shots at ChatGPT’s clumsy, “horrible” name now stuck in the mainstream. But the runaway popularity of the life-like AI chatbot reflects Altman AI’s world-changing promise – a promise exceeding even Apple’s new boundary-pushing mixed reality headset by his assessment.
For Altman, AI has already begun transforming work and education much faster than skeptics expected. As breakthroughs continue, OpenAI’s goal of an ultra-capable “super smart personal assistant” may cement AI’s reach and impact above all modern innovations, including perhaps even Apple’s long-dominant iPhone legacy.
