Sam Altman says AI’s everyday uses reveal only a fraction of its potential

Sam Altman said capable AI models can do far more than routine tasks such as booking a haircut or coordinating plans with friends, including tackling major unsolved math problems. He said it will take time to discover the full range of what they can do.

Altman said more people are interested in making daily life less hectic than in what models can do for them with problems such as Navier–Stokes. He expects models to improve people’s lives in big and small ways that are difficult to imagine today, and called the focus on haircut bookings a “failure of imagination.”