Who Should You Believe When Chatbots Go Wild?

In 1987, then-CEO of Apple Computer, John Sculley, unveiled a vision that he hoped would cement his legacy as more than just a former purveyor of soft drinks. Keynoting at the EDUCOM conference, he presented a 5-minute, 45-second video of a product that built upon some ideas he had presented in his autobiography the previous year. The video is a two-hander playlet. The main character is a snooty UC Berkeley university professor. The other is a bot, living inside what we'd now call a foldable tablet.