Apple founder Steve Jobs anticipated the rise of AI chatbots and generative AI, predicting interactive digital mediums.
In his 1983 presentation at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Steve Jobs envisioned a future where readers could engage with digital mediums, asking questions directly and receiving interactive responses, unlike traditional static texts.
He speculated that scholars could input their thoughts into machines, and these machines would be capable of responding to questions and thinking like humans, even after the scholars' deaths, preserving their ideas and principles posthumously.
The digital exhibit from the Steve Jobs Archive, featuring Jobs's full Aspen presentation, additional videos, and insights from Jony Ive and Leslie Berlin, showcases Jobs's vision for design and technology, and his understanding of the impact of technological progress.
AI companies are now training chatbots like ChatGPT to respond to user questions with data from books and other sources, sometimes getting facts wrong, offering a new way of interacting with people, ideas, and history, as Jobs had envisioned.
This article was written in collaboration with Generative AI news company Alchemiq
Sources: CNBC, Business Insider, Fast Company, TechStory, TechNewsInc.