When the legendary technology leader and one of Apple‘s founders, Steve Jobs, passed away in 2011, he left behind a technology that completely transformed the world.

If Jobs were still alive, he might have made a historical impact with his work on artificial intelligence. This idea is further strengthened by the emergence of new footage suggesting that Jobs foresaw ChatGPT.

A new digital exhibition in the Steve Jobs Archive includes footage from Jobs’s presentation at the International Design Conference in Aspen in 1983. The Apple founder speaks about the promise of a new technology capable of answering questions and thinking like a human:

“I think looking ahead 50 to 100 years, if we can find these machines that truly capture an underlying spirit, a set of principles, or a fundamental way of looking at the world, then the next Aristotle comes along. Maybe one day, after that person has passed away, we can ask this machine, ‘Hey, what would Aristotle say? And what about this?'”

Forty years have passed since Jobs’s speech, and the world is steadily progressing towards developing these machines. AI companies are training artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT with data from books and other sources to answer users’ questions.