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Sam Altman’s $10b bet to give OpenAI its ‘iPhone moment’

Sam Altman’s $10b bet to give OpenAI its ‘iPhone moment’

Artificial intelligence is helping computers get to the toughest destination of all: your face.

Nishtha Bhatia and Shahram Izadi spoke Farsi and Hindi to each other as the glasses translated in real time to English. AP

On Wednesday, the Iranian-born computer scientist Shahram Izadi took to the stage at Google’s annual developer conference in Silicon Valley, and did the thing that everyone in the computer community knows not to do.

Izadi, an expert in augmented reality and natural user interfaces, who helped Microsoft launch its Hololens AR system and who now works for Google, attempted a live demonstration of a new AI device Google is working on.

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