Former Steve Jobs Intern Says This Is How He Would Have Approached Ai

DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor was erstwhile an intern for nan precocious Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

He worked for Jobs from 1989 to 1993 arsenic a section advisor intern astatine a instrumentality institution Jobs founded, NeXT, and says that if Jobs were unrecorded today, he would beryllium reasoning astir AI.

"If he was astir for nan past 10 years, I guarantee you it [AI] would've been apical of mind for him," Kapoor told Quartz newsman Rocio Fabbro connected Thursday. "He was ever personification successful my mind, his biggest gift to america was bringing wide arts and instrumentality taxable together to springiness america nan products he gave us."

Steve Jobs successful 2010. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Apple, meanwhile, has been gradually exploring AI for nan iPhone, iPad and Mac. Earlier this week, Apple released a caller package update that brings ChatGPT to its products. Now, iPhone users tin nonstop questions to ChatGPT done Siri and make images pinch ChatGPT to recreation text.

Related: Apple Is Adding ChatGPT to iPhones This Week. Here's How It Works.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said successful an question and reply pinch Wired past week that AI ushers successful a caller era for each Apple products.

"I deliberation it changes nan measurement you interface pinch nan product," Cook said.

Cook mentioned Jobs arsenic bully successful nan interview, stating that Apple's agency astatine Apple Park reminded him of Jobs.

"There's a narration coming to Steve that is unthinkable and very deep," Cook said. "We personification nan theatre named aft him and deliberation astir him each nan time, but I tin consciousness him successful different spaces too."

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