@10xmylife: Apple envisioned the Agent form of tool as early as 40 years ago. Sometimes I have to admire Apple's foresight — it's top-notch.
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This article revisits Apple's 1987 concept video "Knowledge Navigator," showcasing its early vision of AI agents and praising Apple's foresight.
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Apple foresaw the agent tool form 40 years ago. Sometimes you have to admit Apple’s foresight is top-notch.
Jason Zhu (@GoSailGlobal): An AI assistant reads messages for a professor, schedules his day, reviews papers, filters out irrelevant ones, and even automatically sets up a video call for them to work on data together.
This is Apple’s 1987 short film “Knowledge Navigator”
That vision was already complete in 1987.
The next 40 years were mostly spent on filling in the underlying pipes: compute, networks, models, tools.
As for the “agent”
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