DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor was once an intern for late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
it worked about Jobs from 1989 to 1993 as a campus consulting intern at a computer company founded by Jobs, NeXT, and says that if Jobs were alive today, he would be thinking about AI.
“If he had been around for the last 10 years, I guarantee you (AI) would have been top of mind for him,” Kapoor told the Quartz reporter Rocio Fabbro on Thursday. “He was always someone in my mind, his greatest gift to us was bringing the liberal arts and computer science together to give us the products he gave us.”
Steve Jobs in 2010. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Apple, meanwhile, has been gradually exploring AI for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Earlier this week, Apple released a new software update that brings ChatGPT to its products. Now, iPhone users can direct questions to ChatGPT through Siri and generate images with ChatGPT to accompany the text.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a interview with Wires Last week AI ushers in a new era for all Apple products.
“I think it changes the way you interact with the product,” Cook said.
Cook also mentioned Jobs in the interview, stating that Apple's headquarters at Apple Park reminded him of Jobs.
“There's a connection here with Steve that's incredible and very deep,” Cook said. “We have the theater named after him and we think about him all the time, but I feel it in other spaces as well.”
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