Retro cellphone next to Sam Altman on stage at A Year In TIME at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.
OpenAI CEO compares the current ChatGPT model to the first cellphone.
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman compared the current ChatGPT model to a "barely useful cellphone."
  • Altman said the company hasn't seen as many world-changing applications as they would like.
  • The CEO believes that in a decade, AI will be "pretty remarkable." 

Remember the first cellphone that had a black and white screen and could only display numbers?

Maybe you don't.

But OpenAI CEO Sam Altman does — and he compared it to the current model of ChatGPT.

"We're at this barely useful cellphone," Altman said this week at the World Government Summit, where he made a virtual appearance.