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It's not just as ChatGPT as the interface. It's that Chat with AI will now be the universal interface and every tech company will have their version of it. Ever

by asim 1y ago

It's not just as ChatGPT as the interface. It's that Chat with AI will now be the universal interface and every tech company will have their version of it. Everything you want to do will happen in one place. Cards will provide predefined and interactive experience. Over time you'll see entirely dynamic content get generated on the fly. The user experience is going to be one where we've shrunk websites to apps and apps to cards or widgets. Effectively any action you need to take can be done like this and then agents can operate more complex workflow in the background. This is probably the interface for the next 10 years and what replaces the mobile app experience and stronghold that Apple or Google have. This lasts until fully immersive AR/VR become a more mainstream thing. At that point these cards are on a heads up display but we'll be looking at something totally different. Like agents roaming the earth...

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
This has been the pitched playbook for decades. (Metamates!) I'm increasingly convinced its driven by a specific generation of tech entrepreneurs who cut their teeth while reading ca. 1980s science fiction. I could see chat apps becoming dominant in Slack-oriented workplaces. But, like, chatting with an AI to play a song is objectively worse than using Spotify. Dynamically-created music sounds nice until one considers the social context in which non-filler music is heard.
- fidotron 1y ago
  The thing it reminds me of is those old Silicon Graphics greybeards that were smug about how they were creating tools for people that created wealth when those other system providers "just" created tools for people tracking wealth. There's a whole bizarre subculture in computing that fails to recognize what it is about computers that people actually find valuable.
- neutronicus 1y ago
  Chatting with an AI to play a song whose title you know, sure. Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho
  - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
    > Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho Absolutely. The point is this is a specialised and occasional use case. You don't want to have to go through a chat bot every time you want to play a particular song just because sometimes you might hum at it. The closest we've come to a widely-adopted AR interface are AirPods. Critically, however, they work by mimicing how someone would speak to a real human by them.
  - fragmede 1y ago
    more abstract than that, "I'm throwing a wedding/funeral/startup IPO/Halloween/birthday party for a whatever year old and need appropriate music". Or, without knowing specific bands, "I want to hear some 80's metal music". "more cowbell!"
    - array_key_first 1y ago
      You don't need AI for this, Spotify has, like, infinite playlists. Also their playlists are made by real people (mostly...), so they don't completely suck ass.
      - fragmede 1y ago
        Playlists aren't interactive though. I can't say "like this but with less guitar". Also, following the Beatport top 100 tech house playlist, and hearing how many tracks aren't actually tech house makes me wonder about who makes that particular playlist.
        array_key_first 1y ago
        I don't know, I don't buy that this is a use case that matters enough to sway anyone. That's how I feel about a lot of AI stuff. Like... It's neat. It's a fun novelty. It makes a good party trick. It's the software equivalent of a knick knack. Like 90% of the pixel AI features. There's some good ones in there, sure, but most of them you play around with for a day and then forget exist.
- echelon 1y ago
  It's because Zuck can't own a pane of glass. He's locked out of the smartphone duopoly. Everyone wants the next device category. They covet it. Every other company tries to will it into existence.

by asim 1y ago

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

This has been the pitched playbook for decades. (Metamates!) I'm increasingly convinced its driven by a specific generation of tech entrepreneurs who cut their teeth while reading ca. 1980s science fiction. I could see chat apps becoming dominant in Slack-oriented workplaces. But, like, chatting with an AI to play a song is objectively worse than using Spotify. Dynamically-created music sounds nice until one considers the social context in which non-filler music is heard.

fidotron 1y ago
The thing it reminds me of is those old Silicon Graphics greybeards that were smug about how they were creating tools for people that created wealth when those other system providers "just" created tools for people tracking wealth. There's a whole bizarre subculture in computing that fails to recognize what it is about computers that people actually find valuable.
neutronicus 1y ago
Chatting with an AI to play a song whose title you know, sure. Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho Absolutely. The point is this is a specialised and occasional use case. You don't want to have to go through a chat bot every time you want to play a particular song just because sometimes you might hum at it. The closest we've come to a widely-adopted AR interface are AirPods. Critically, however, they work by mimicing how someone would speak to a real human by them.
- fragmede 1y ago
  more abstract than that, "I'm throwing a wedding/funeral/startup IPO/Halloween/birthday party for a whatever year old and need appropriate music". Or, without knowing specific bands, "I want to hear some 80's metal music". "more cowbell!"
  - array_key_first 1y ago
    You don't need AI for this, Spotify has, like, infinite playlists. Also their playlists are made by real people (mostly...), so they don't completely suck ass.
    - fragmede 1y ago
      Playlists aren't interactive though. I can't say "like this but with less guitar". Also, following the Beatport top 100 tech house playlist, and hearing how many tracks aren't actually tech house makes me wonder about who makes that particular playlist.
      - array_key_first 1y ago
        I don't know, I don't buy that this is a use case that matters enough to sway anyone. That's how I feel about a lot of AI stuff. Like... It's neat. It's a fun novelty. It makes a good party trick. It's the software equivalent of a knick knack. Like 90% of the pixel AI features. There's some good ones in there, sure, but most of them you play around with for a day and then forget exist.
echelon 1y ago
It's because Zuck can't own a pane of glass. He's locked out of the smartphone duopoly. Everyone wants the next device category. They covet it. Every other company tries to will it into existence.