That the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, He was a visionaryit is something that nobody doubts, beyond that you like their products or not, or their vision of technology. The video you are going to see shows it: in 1983, when almost no one knew what a computer program was, Steve Jobs already described how the artificial intelligence 50 years in the future. And he was fully.
It is important to put ourselves in context, to understand the impact. In 1983 there were no mobiles, nor internet, and there were hardly any personal computers. Apple had had great success with the Apple II computer, but it was still an elite product. It cost $ 1,298 of the time, equivalent to about 6,000 euros now.
During the speech you are going to see, Apple’s founder asks people if anyone knows what a computer program is. Everyone is silent, except some that responds «more or less.» In a society that did not know computer science, Steve Jobs already vision of the current AI.
The AI according to Steve Jobs, in 1983
The medium published by the video, Strat, does not indicate where that speech took place, but the year: 1983.
A very young Steve Jobs with long hair and a little bowling, launches a first idea advanced in his time: the possibility of drawing a computer, and sending it to the fixed phone to a friend, via email, to see it.
In 1983 there was no internet at the public level, but emails could be sent by modem. However, it was only viable to send text, due to the slowness of that connection. An image would have taken hours, or days. But The inventor of the iPhone already fantasized with sharing photos and drawings With other people remotely.
After Steve Jobs explains what a computer program is: «A program are ideas expressed on paper. Capture the essential principles of an experience, and those principles generate thousands of different experiences.»
Compares it to the classic game Pongtwo rackets that return a ball. The program has some principles, the law of gravity, the mathematics of the angles, but every party, each experience, is different every time you play.
We are seeing how a visionary. For computer scientists, for normal people, a program is a list of orders that produce a result. For Steve Jobs, They are principles that generate experiences. That idea was Apple’s engine in its first decades.
Then he talks about his childhood, how some very good teachers had, and most mediocre. But He learned a lot reading Plato and Aristotle.
The books saved him «to go to jail,» he says, because they allow you to go directly to the source, without intermediaries (the teachers). In the books who speak are directly Aristotle and Plato. «The problem of a book is that you can’t ask Aristotle a question,» he laments.
In the last minute of the video is when Steve Jobs describe la artificial intelligence Our daywithout naming it:
«I think that if we look between 50 and 200 years in the future, and the next Aristotle carries one of these computers where he is registering all his life, when that person dies, we can ask things to that machine, which has collected all its principles, and perhaps we do not obtain the response of that person … or perhaps.»
Without naming it, because it would be invented 40 years later, Steve Jobs is describing how a red neuronaland AI model Trained with a certain data set (A person’s knowledge), and as that can respond as if it were the person himself, which is what we can do today with an AI agent.
This is the visionary Steve Jobs, in all its fullness. It is a misfortune that has not lived enough to know the era of artificial intelligence. I would have enjoyed it immensely and, surely, Apple would be in a better position to face it than in which you are now …
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