Steve Jobs' wish comes true as Aristotle shares his views on AI

A 1985 video has emerged of the Apple scion predicting AI would one day enable us to ask the philosopher a question. Yesterday, I did it...

It’s funday Friday so let’s lighten the mood.

It appears that I may have piqued some Apple fans earlier this week when I derided the world’s most innovative product company’s AI efforts as a bit of a damp squib.

Ha, they scoffed, as the share price boomed and Apple soared past Microsoft, and back into top spot as the world’s most valuable company.

But I told them I just can’t shift the itch that Apple’s competitive edge will be hamstrung by using rivals Microsoft and Google as its critical partners for AI and search.

Just how is that going to work?

In one exchange, I used a throw-away line: Look mate, how do you reckon Steve Jobs would have felt about chumming up with the competition on features so important?

After the call, it occurred to me that I should ask him, using AI, and I had a nagging memory that he’d said something about it a long, long, time ago.

So, using Microsoft’s Copilot AI, I went to find out, and it led me down a fascinating path to the ancient city of Mytilene on the G…