MS DOS

“I feel like on the user interface side of where we are we're kind of in our MS-DOS moment right now. We haven't had our Windows moment, and I don't think that it's necessarily going to be a Windows interface, but typing into a chatbot or talking into a chatbot…”

“Computers didn't hit, you know, mainstream adoption until there was some graphical user interface on top of it. Microsoft windows or, you know, windows XP, I think it was, or windows. So I think it's, that's this moment in, in AI, right? We're putting canvases…”

“I think we'll look back on this era as like the MS-DOS era of AI, and the prompting and natural language that everyone's doing today, I think is just sort of like the start of how we're going to create interfaces to explore it in space.”

“I still feel like ChatGPT feels a little bit like MS-DOS. We haven't built Windows yet, and it will be obvious once we do, but, you know, there, there's something that feels a little bit like, imagine MS-DOS, like, gone viral, and you were just trying to, like…”

“Yeah, I think that it feels intuitively like we're in the MS-DOS era of AI right now, and that, you know, if you look back 10 years from now, everyone's gonna go, can you believe that we just had this chat box?”

“Definitely not. It's the command line starting point of this new frontier, like the MS-DOS was, you know, way back when.”

“And actually, it was not until Windows 95 that Windows was its own operating system. It was in Windows one, two, three, three dot one, and Windows for Workgroups, it was a graphical operating environment.”

“MS-DOS-V was the first time that Egghead Software, which was the big retailer, software retailer at the time, had ever seen, they ran a midnight madness sale on the first day that the DOS-V upgrade was released, and they had people camping out and lining up ou…”