{"id":23698,"date":"2026-03-16T17:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23698"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:21:31","slug":"steve-jobs-an-ai-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/steve-jobs-an-ai-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs &#038; an AI paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An AI paradox: as models get vastly more <strong>complex<\/strong>, interfaces can get vastly <strong>simpler<\/strong>. We can make computers conform to <em>our<\/em> reality\u2014not the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Jobs described exactly this evolution all the way back in 1981:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Jobs &quot;predicts&quot; the iPhone in 1981 #Shorts\" width=\"510\" height=\"906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OudH-Bz8I34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI paradox: as models get vastly more complex, interfaces can get vastly simpler. We can make computers conform to our reality\u2014not the other way around. Steve Jobs described exactly this evolution all the way back in 1981:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23706,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698\/revisions\/23706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}