- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence
- Says he’s “not a fan” of people like ChatGPT and Claude
- His comments come as Apple continues to work on artificial intelligence tools.
Like other large technology companies, Apple is betting on artificial intelligence (AI). But if company co-founder Steve Wozniak were still involved, things could look very different.
In an interview on The Claman Countdown on Fox Business, Wozniak revealed that he is “not a fan” of artificial intelligence systems for a variety of reasons. This is in stark contrast to the stance of Apple CEO Tim Cook, who described AI as something “very profound and can be so positive.”
For Wozniak, however, AI has too many flaws for his liking. For example, Wozniak said you can ask an AI tool what the difference is between two objects and it will give you a long, detailed answer. But if you ask a human, he noted, you might be treated to a story rather than the bare facts.
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“I want to know that a human being like me thinks, knows what I can feel and understands emotions,” he added.
And it’s not just the lack of emotional depth that turns Wozniak away from AI: it’s also the lack of reliability. Wozniak lamented that after trying several large language model (LLM) tools, he sometimes struggles to get a direct answer from an AI. “I want such reliable content at all times,” he said. “I’m not a fan of AI.”
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‘Make ourselves less relevant’
Wozniak’s comments come at a difficult time for Apple’s AI efforts. The company seemed to be surprised by the appearance of ChatGPT in late 2022, and it was not until the summer of 2024 that Apple introduced its own artificial intelligence system called Apple Intelligence. Unfortunately, this has hit roadblock after roadblock, and several of the flagship features the company announced have yet to see the light of day two years later.
This is not the first time Wozniak has talked about AI. Already in 2011 he touched on the topic, warning in a speech that “Every time we invent a computer to do something else, it is doing our work for us, making us less relevant.” In 2018, however, he was apparently less concerned, arguing that “sometimes what we call AI is just the state of the art of what computers can do right now… If you go back in time, machines have always made humans more powerful.”
Of course, both comments came before the rise of AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. And now that you’ve experienced tools like that, it certainly sounds like you’re not a big fan. But as Apple continues to push ahead with its own artificial intelligence systems, it appears Wozniak will remain at odds with the company he co-founded 50 years ago.
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