In his speech, Jobs, who was 28 years old at the time, outlined his outlook for future technological developments, AI-powered chatbots There is today.
In the video, Jobs said he enjoyed reading Aristotle and Plato and wished he could question them, but over the next 50 to 100 years he envisioned machines that could encapsulate a person’s “underlying ethos, or an underlying set of principles, or any underlying way of looking at the world.”
Machines will be able to generate responses to questions similar to how real humans would respond.
“When the next Aristotle comes along, he could carry this machine around with him for the rest of his life and input all this information, and then after he passes away, we might be able to ask the machine, ‘Hey, what would Aristotle have said?'” Jobs said in his speech.
Nearly 40 years later, society seems to be catching up with Jobs’ predictions. Generative AI Tools like Large-scale language models.
Commonly referred to as an AI chatbot, LLM is a type of AI algorithm that is trained on vast amounts of data and learns how to identify patterns and connections between words and topics, then uses that knowledge to interpret prompts and generate new output in text, images, or audio.
Similar to Apple’s co-founder’s prediction, if you feed the LLM with all of Aristotle’s known works, the model will be able to answer users’ questions in a similar way to how it predicted Aristotle would answer them.
Moreover, today’s tech giants are pursuing the next frontier in AI. General artificial intelligenceThis broadly refers to artificial intelligence that can complete tasks at the same level as, or even better than, humans.
But when that point will be reached is an ongoing debate among today’s technology leaders.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and owner of X, said AGI Available by 2026He made this comment, Interview on April 24th We speak to Nikolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, on X.
But Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, one of China’s largest technology companies, said at the VivaTech conference in Paris in May that it would still be around 10 years before they reached that stage.
Jobs Predictions about the future of technology It was realized.
in Interview from 1985 In an interview with Playboy magazine, Jobs said people would soon use computers in their free time, outside of work or the office. “The computer will become an essential part of most homes,” he said.
In 1984, fewer than 10% of American households owned a computer; According to the U.S. Census BureauCurrently, approximately 95% of U.S. households own at least one type of computing device. Latest Census Data.
In the Playboy interview, Jobs also predicted that we would be able to use computers to connect with each other online.
“For most people, the most compelling reason to buy a home computer is to connect it to a nationwide communications network,” Jobs told Playboy magazine.
The idea came from London-born computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. Invention of the World Wide Web It was founded in 1989 to enable colleagues to share information.
This iteration of the internet began with a single website in 1991, launched by Berners-Lee, but as of 2021, there are nearly 1.88 billion websites. World Economic Forum.
