35 years later: Alexa, help me prepare for my presentation. - Sorry, I can only play Despacito, tell you a wrong weather forecast and put toilet paper on your Amazon shopping list while secretly recording everything in your home. ... Alexa - Yes? Play Despacito.
Lots of people in the comments saying that today's technology is nowhere near the level of advancement predicted in this video. But a lot of what we see here -- live video chat, real-time exchange of digital documents, Siri-type interaction with an AI -- was straight-up science fiction back then.
I would be one of these people if I’d left a general ”My take on it 30 years after”, but I was just directed here from the « Pomme-F » mailing list (!), of nearly all surviving Apple France and Apple Europe historical ex-employees, plus significant external sidekicks, such as yours truly. ;-) My memory of that rather amazing video is dug up from deep from seing it, but seen from today, I smile at the neo-classical general decor, hacienda-style, ancient-Egypt looking tablet, Galileo’s rotating globe or what… 🤣 I’ll say you have a half-point, and I have to admit I feel in an SF world of my youth ever since I bought an iPhone 3GS in 2008 ! (And love writing this on my iPad Air 4 from my favorite ski resort, La Plagne 😊). However: • I just had my first ChatGPT session this morning, and at the 15th exchange, the thing blew its brain on me (“An error occurred. If this issue persists… - It persisted 😂) • Siri is unusable for me. Neither is Alexa. The first thing I’d like these talking and listening thingies to do for me is outrageously simple, technically, in the style of, « Siri, select my main folder Music Ideas, subfolder Songs, create a new Note, entitle it XXX and take my dictation… » ({Yes, Lionel } - in my dreams!!). Since around 2015, all such companies develop thingies to direct us where they want - mostly buying stuff -, not to for us to be able to do what we want. My last word on it: this clip was striking then but is really “quaint” seen today. What I carry in mind and is still “fresh” to me, relating to the iPhone wonder (still), is that that’s what they had in “Star Trek”, back in the 60s! 🥳 ✌🏻 📱
@@LeeOLumbroso We are quite close to such functionality ... maybe in 2025 such technology will be available like on the video .. 15 years later than they predicted ;)
Actually today Microsoft announced something pretty much like what this assistant. Add the voice prompting and that’s all! You have the apple knowledge navigator
@@brunocornelio4298 I’ll have to go check on that, but as I hinted 2 months ago, there’s now a generalized “devil in the works”: the loss of all candor within the powers that be, at the head of those huge tech conglomerates, and instead a fatalistic acceptance on the part of all employees that cynicism is the ill-spirit of the times. It’s even worse than *Spielberg* aptly foresaw in _“Minority Report”,_ in the Store scene where Tom Cruise is assaulted by several talking and fluttering holograms pushing him to buy more of what he chose the previous time and even more than that. What these companies put their energy at nowadays is “selling us” promises that they don’t intend to keep, chiseling the language carefully more than the real features, as they have their own agenda, quite distinct from really providing new, really useful, wonders to users. Hence, in my view, the reactive, saving idea that anyone _(especially of us, independant, unnaffiliated users/citizens)_ will have to learn to “hack” our way around anything that pertains to that pretty much systematic duping of users, that being arguably the only effective way to put a given new technology to work toward our own purposes, by learning how to bend it enough out of the “sheeps’ pen” of application intended by the creator/provider. _(In that tentative current reality-assessment, what I called_ “quaint” _in my previous post, to qualify the naive, idealistic visions of 40 years ago, may be rehabilitated to_ “candid” = _white […human magic], honest, constructive for the common good.)_
If virtual dude can pick up on the ole prof not remembering the meeting time and helpfully interjecting, you know damn well he knows what’s going on 😂😂😂
0:53 shows Wednesday September 16. Which could have been 2009. But since we still don’t have the full capability of Knowledge Navigator yet, this must be further out in the future like 2026 or 2037.
By 1990 there were 11 million cell phone users but they seemingly weren't able to predict he'd be able to take a phone call on the road at the very end of this
Wow! I worked for apple and I’ve got the laserdisc with that commercial! So far Alexa from amazon seems to function more like that voice assistant than Siri!
I remember seeing this when I joined Apple to work on Newton. It was the inspiration for a lot of our work, and was beautifully filmed. I'd love to see a better quality version of this again.
that's not brazil, that's the whole South America continent(brasil, peru, Colombia, argentina, chile, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and other 3 that cant remember right now.
We are quite close to such functionality now ... maybe in 2025 such technology will be available like on the video .. 15 years later than they predicted ;)
That’s a really funny way to put it! 😆 In the body of a longer reply I just wrote, I’m attempting to explain why: • Siri is unusable for me. Neither is Alexa. The first thing I’d like these talking and listening thingies to do for me is outrageously simple, technically, in the style of, « Siri, select my main folder Music Ideas, subfolder Songs, create a new Note, entitle it XXX and take my dictation… » ({Yes, Lionel } - in my dreams!!). Since around 2015, all such companies develop thingies to direct us where they want - mostly buying stuff -, not to for us to be able to do what we want. Addendum especially per tè, Allessio: “The rest of us are left makeshifting what we need!” ;->
We are quite close to such functionality ... maybe in 2025 such technology will be available like on the video .. 15 years later than they predicted ;)
For decades i was certain i would not see anything like Knowledge Navigator before i die. 2 years ago i thought maybe it could happen. But i see how that governments will ban AI. I won't see Knowledge Navigator before i die :(
I agree with you, but mostly based on the rather impressive TV ads of theirs: I’ve never seen one from close, nor seen a user handling one or commenting on it. I heard that the first couple of years, they had issues with features related to folding, but they obviously persisted, debugged what they needed to, and well they did, as it is indeed “a new product” that makes sense, may have been “dreamt” by a number of us, reasserts ‘homo faber’ always pushing the envelop of our capabilities. 😊✌🏻🚀 Plus Samsung may be said to have operated at higher altitude than Apple for 30 years or so, all feats and figures considered, even though the greatest inventor in tech’ (and SOB to many in so doing - it comes with a price) is “you know who”. 😄 💫 📱
Yeah. Create it by shipping products, rather than dreaming about them in concept videos. Luckily Apple doesn't do this any more, as entertaining as this video is to us.
this futuristic stuff is always so cool, and yeah we're getting pretty close to this becoming reality but the past designs and vibe just feels kinda different. a novelty i guess? not sure.
Still no avatar to check in with yet; using AI; although we've progressed to ChatGPT; but interacting with GPT should be in natural conversational form; and it ought to know our personal data (that we allow) and have access to our files.
This is great, and very closely achievable. However, it needs to be on the device model with access to the OS level of operation, not just apps. It requires more reasoning capabilities than the ones available for GPT-4o though. A longer context window, and also a different training model. The current way of building LLMs REQUIRES the models to talk a lot to "reason". They have no backend or hidden output. This is why they're often wordy, as they reason through talking.
If we get close to this by the end of the decade I'd be shocked. It's no coincidence that Siri has been in permanent Beta since the day of its release, one day before Steve Jobs died.
Awesome as the design looks, you have to be honest and ask the question of what purpose it serves go out and produce these concept videos. From what I understand, Jobs was fiercely against them as well. Those who speculate and dream on screen, are not busy shipping things.
I like the way the professors say "what if WE reduce the logging rate in Brazil" (as they want the power to do that). Also, the increases in CO2 in the past 50 years have increased the thickness and leafing / flowering of trees and other flora while reducing the amount of water they need to use (increased CO2 means smaller stomata and less lost water vapor). The atmosphere still is only about 250 ppm above the (low) level where most plants cannot survive well if at all (about 150 up to a little over 400 now -- which is historically quite low still).
would this be canceled today for highlighting his peer’s rival professor’s failed prediction regarding climate change? Also they’d definitely be talking about his family issues in this era 😂 He was avoiding them like the plague
