life—I used to say it could be the Macin-
tosh, usually I’d say the iPhone, but no, the
third-party App Store has changed the way
I live my life the most.”
Wozniak described his “ah-ha” Siri mo-
ment to the crowd. “I was overlooking
Lake Tahoe in California with my wife from
Kansas and she said “Is this the largest
lake in California?” I spent over thirty min-
utes trying to type in Google queries to
find out. I ask the question no computer
could ever answer, “what are the five larg-
est lakes in California?” And it came back
one, two, three, four, five. Lake Tahoe was
number three. And I was shocked, again.”
“The future of artificial intelligence is be-
ing able to understand human things," he
continued. "We tried to build a computer
back then that was intuitive enough so you
knew what to do with it once you saw it.
Having a machine be intuitive enough to
know what a human needs or wants is
something else."
THE FUTURE OF THE CAR
Wozniak spoke with Business Elite Cana-
da before the Speakers Forum. We asked
him to combine the themes of the night:
technology and automobiles.
“I’ve thought about autonomous driving for
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto for the inaugural
Audi Speakers Forum. Photo credit: George Pimentel Photography.
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