Steve Jobs' 1983 prediction: Machines answering for Aristotle
deedydas · x · 2026-08-27
A shared clip from a 1983 interview features Steve Jobs envisioning a future where machines could capture an underlying spirit. He speculated that one day, long after a person has passed, we could ask a machine, "Hey, what would Aristotle have said?" This is cited as a prescient prediction of today's LLMs and the concept of digital immortality.
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