Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google's artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind, said in an interview with MIT Technology Review last Friday that generative AI is just one stage in the development of artificial intelligence. "The next step is interactive AI: robots that can complete the tasks you set for them by calling other software and other people."
Suleiman, now co-founder and CEO of a new artificial intelligence startup, InflectionAI, said interactive AI can be more dynamic and can take actions on its own if given permission, in contrast to what he calls today's "static" technology.
He added: "This is a very, very profound moment in the history of technology and I think a lot of people underestimate it."
Suleiman has previously predicted that within the next five years, everyone will have an AI assistant. His company, InflectionAI, launched chatbot Pi in May as a competitor to ChatGPT that focuses on personal advice and conversations.
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, also launched the Code Interpreter function for its chatbot in July. Wharton Professor Ethan Mollick said that this is "the strongest case that artificial intelligence will become a valuable partner in complex knowledge work in the future."
Suleiman's comments come amid concerns that the boom in artificial intelligence may be overhyped.
In August, traffic to the ChatGPT website declined for the third consecutive month, according to data from web analytics firm Similarweb.