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That's the question.. will the browser become irrelevant and be functionally replaced with AI powered specialized OS apps? This movement is likely to be a huge

by jadbox 4y ago

That's the question.. will the browser become irrelevant and be functionally replaced with AI powered specialized OS apps? This movement is likely to be a huge boon for Apple as they can finally have their walled garden powered by AI. Apple can now worry less about the Internet encroaching it's users and app developers.

lancesells 4y ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around this AI future that replaces browsers and browsing. Currently I use a browser to: 1. Browse the internet with places like HN & Youtube 2. Use apps in the browser for work (Miro, Slack, Klaviyo, etc) 3. Ask search engines a question to find an answer Where does AI replace these? If it's #3 I can tell you that's not for me. I don't want an answer scraped from the internet from an amalgamated source. When I use a search engine I'm able to see what looks fishy and what doesn't. What am I missing out on?
- PaulHoule 4y ago
  I want a personal agent that surfs the web for me, strips out the ads, spams, and scams. I find it unimaginable that everyone finds this so unimaginable.
  - lancesells 4y ago
    But surfs the web how? With prompts? So a search engine with one answer? How would it work on a site like this?
    - PaulHoule 4y ago
      I have no problem with this site. It might be nice though to take "Who's Hiring", run a classifier on it to exclude listings I don't want to apply to and feed that into my "application tracking system" which workflows my applications. (Last time I did that I had something to talk about for the interview and nailed it right there.) Imagine though, you visited reddit or yahoo or anandtech or any other site filled with trash and it looked like HN. (Believe it or not there is a good site inside reddit if you took away the "install the app" crap, the image memes, the dark pattern designs that blend ads with the content, etc.) Imagine the first 50 spam search results on Google were gone and you just got content. What if you followed a link to the New York Times or Wired magazine and it looked like archive.today? People find it about as hard to imagine as the world that John Lennon asked you to imagine but "it's easy if you try". I think of the line from a David Byrne song... "Say something once, why say it again?" My motto is "see something once, why see it again?" If I had a complaint about HN it is that a news article is going to get posted once but people who are slow on the draw will still be posting other articles about the same news item for the next six month. What if all the "me too" junk was gone? Why do I have to keep scanning ebay or craiglist and ignore the listings I've seen already? Why can't I get notified when a Sony MDS-NT1 is available? Why can't I just get notified when something I want is available at a good price? There are numerous technical reasons why it hasn't happened (search ranking algorithms not being calibrated) but people are so used to the advertising corrupted web that a true user-centric web is almost unimaginable.

by jadbox 4y ago

lancesells 4y ago

I'm trying to wrap my head around this AI future that replaces browsers and browsing. Currently I use a browser to: 1. Browse the internet with places like HN & Youtube 2. Use apps in the browser for work (Miro, Slack, Klaviyo, etc) 3. Ask search engines a question to find an answer Where does AI replace these? If it's #3 I can tell you that's not for me. I don't want an answer scraped from the internet from an amalgamated source. When I use a search engine I'm able to see what looks fishy and what doesn't. What am I missing out on?

PaulHoule 4y ago
I want a personal agent that surfs the web for me, strips out the ads, spams, and scams. I find it unimaginable that everyone finds this so unimaginable.
- lancesells 4y ago
  But surfs the web how? With prompts? So a search engine with one answer? How would it work on a site like this?
  - PaulHoule 4y ago
    I have no problem with this site. It might be nice though to take "Who's Hiring", run a classifier on it to exclude listings I don't want to apply to and feed that into my "application tracking system" which workflows my applications. (Last time I did that I had something to talk about for the interview and nailed it right there.) Imagine though, you visited reddit or yahoo or anandtech or any other site filled with trash and it looked like HN. (Believe it or not there is a good site inside reddit if you took away the "install the app" crap, the image memes, the dark pattern designs that blend ads with the content, etc.) Imagine the first 50 spam search results on Google were gone and you just got content. What if you followed a link to the New York Times or Wired magazine and it looked like archive.today? People find it about as hard to imagine as the world that John Lennon asked you to imagine but "it's easy if you try". I think of the line from a David Byrne song... "Say something once, why say it again?" My motto is "see something once, why see it again?" If I had a complaint about HN it is that a news article is going to get posted once but people who are slow on the draw will still be posting other articles about the same news item for the next six month. What if all the "me too" junk was gone? Why do I have to keep scanning ebay or craiglist and ignore the listings I've seen already? Why can't I get notified when a Sony MDS-NT1 is available? Why can't I just get notified when something I want is available at a good price? There are numerous technical reasons why it hasn't happened (search ranking algorithms not being calibrated) but people are so used to the advertising corrupted web that a true user-centric web is almost unimaginable.