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Your users actually showed great foresight, I think. There are good reasons to avoid "intelligent" or hubristic interfaces: http://unqualified-reservations.blog
by lolcraft 17y ago
Your users actually showed great foresight, I think. There are good reasons to avoid "intelligent" or hubristic interfaces: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram...
Summary: "intelligent" interfaces will always fail for trying to solve a problem (the Chinese room) which is un-decidable even for a human mind, and so the future will use dumb, reliable interfaces (until we can figure out telepathy). Corollary: users shouldn't be blamed for not wanting to trade reliability for "awesomeness". Read the article, it's worth it.
- TheSOB88 17y agoWhy does he keep referring to himself as "your author here" or "the author"? Hiding the fact that you're referring to yourself doesn't make you not refer to yourself. It's just confusing - say "I" instead.
- chadgeidel 17y agoThe author makes a good point, but how many ways are there to enter phone numbers/credit card numbers/dates? Can't these sites be a little flexible?