DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor was once an intern for the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
He he worked for Jobs from 1989 to 1993 as a campus consultant, an intern at the computer company NeXT founded by Jobs, and claims that if Jobs were alive today, he could be pondering about artificial intelligence.
If he’s been around for the last 10 years, I guarantee you that [AI] could be the most vital thing to him,” Kapoor he told a Quartz reporter Rocio Fabbro on Thursday. “He was always someone I thought about. His greatest gift to us was the combination of liberal arts and computer science to provide us with the products he gave us.”
Steve Jobs in 2010. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Meanwhile, Apple is progressively exploring artificial intelligence for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Earlier this week, Apple released a latest software update that brings ChatGPT to its products. Now iPhone users can submit inquiries to ChatGPT via Siri and generate images using ChatGPT to accompany the text.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement interview with Wire last week that artificial intelligence is ushering in a latest era for all Apple products.
“I think it changes the way we interact with the product,” Cook said.
Cook also mentioned Jobs in the interview, stating that Apple’s headquarters in Apple Park reminded him of Jobs.
“There is a bond here with Steve that is amazing and very deep,” Cook said. “We have a theater named after him and we think about him all the time, but I feel him in other spaces as well.”