In a newly released clip from 1983, Steve Jobs compares tech to AI chatbots, and his predictions have come true twice more.

A recently released clip from 1983 shows that Steve Jobs, Apple's late co-founder, may have been more ahead of his time than we realized.

The latest digital exhibit at the Steve Jobs Archive showcases previously unseen video footage of a presentation given by the tech icon at the 1983 International Design Conference.

Jobs, at 28 years old, discusses his vision of future technology and describes a functionality similar to today's AI-powered chatbots during his speech.

Jobs imagined a machine that could capture a person's "core beliefs, worldview, or underlying principles" within the next 50 to 100 years, as he enjoyed reading books by Aristotle and Plato but wished he could ask them questions.

The machine would be able to generate responses to questions similar to how a real-life person may respond.

Jobs stated during his speech that when the next Aristotle emerges, they may carry one of these machines with them throughout their life and input all the information, which could be asked after their death, "What would Aristotle have said?"

Generative AI versus artificial general intelligence

It seems that, 40 years after Jobs' prediction, society is now catching up with the advent of generative AI tools such as large language models.

AI chatbots, also known as LLMs, are AI algorithms that learn to recognize patterns and connections between words and topics by being trained on large amounts of data. They use this knowledge to understand and respond to prompts, producing outputs in the form of text, images, or audio.

An LLM could be trained on all of Aristotle's works and could respond to users' questions in a manner similar to how the model believes Aristotle would answer.

Artificial general intelligence, which enables AI to perform tasks at the same level as humans or even surpass them, is the next frontier that today's tech giants are pursuing.

The debate among today's tech leaders is about when we may reach that point.

During an interview with Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, Elon Musk, CEO and owner of SpaceX, stated that he believes AGI will be accessible by 2026.

During the VivaTech conference in Paris in May, Baidu CEO Robin Li stated that we are approximately 10 years away from achieving full artificial intelligence.

Other Steve Jobs predictions that have come true

One of Jobs' predictions about the future of technology has come true before.

In a 1985 interview with Playboy magazine, Jobs predicted that computers would become a staple in most households and be used for leisure activities outside of work or the office.

In 1984, only 9% of U.S. households owned a computer, while now, nearly all households own at least one computing device, according to the latest Census data.

In the Playboy interview, Jobs predicted that we would be able to connect with each other online using computers.

Jobs stated in an interview with Playboy that the primary motivation for most individuals to purchase a computer for their homes would be to connect it to a national communications network.

The concept of a global network for sharing information among individuals was first hinted at by Tim Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist, in 1989, which eventually led to the creation of the World Wide Web.

The number of websites on the internet has grown from one in 1991 to nearly 1.88 billion in 2021, as reported by the World Economic Forum.

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