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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Generative Search Queries.

I'm your friend David Pierce and this is the third and final episode in our series about AI.

And for this one, I want to talk about one of the oldest stories in AI

and really one of the oldest stories in the tech industry as a whole,

the virtual digital assistant.

My favorite story about this is one I learned a few years ago and I've been thinking about it ever since.

So go back to 1979 in Palo Alto, California.

This guy named Steve Jobs, you may have heard of him, goes to Xerox Park,

which was this ultra successful R&D lab owned at the time by Xerox.

People at Park helped create everything from laser printers to ethernet

to personal computers. It was this incredible factory of cool technology.

But the thing Park is probably best known for is what Steve Jobs saw.

The graphical user interface, which went beyond the text-based command-based computers

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