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Why would you need webapps when you could just talk out loud to your computer ? Why would I need programs with colors, buttons, actual UI ? I am trying to ima
by d-lisp 11mo ago
Why would you need webapps when you could just talk out loud to your computer ?
Why would I need programs with colors, buttons, actual UI ?
I am trying to imagine a future where file navigators don't even exist :
"I want to see the photos I took while I was in vacations last year. Yes, can you remove that cloud ? Perfect, now send it to XXXX's computer and say something nice."
"Can you set some timers for my sport session, can you plan a pure body weight session ? Yes, that's perfect. Wait, actually, remove the jumping jacks."
"Can you produce a detroit style techno beat I feel like I want to dance."
"I feel life is pointless without a work, can you give me some tasks to achieve that would give me a feeling of fulfillment ?"
"Can you play an arcade style video game for me ?"
"Can you find me a mate for tonight ? Yes, I prefer black haired persons."
- jonplackett 11mo agoVoice interfaces are not the be all and end all of communication. Even between humans we prefer text a lot of the time.
- d-lisp 11mo agoI cannot speculate about this, because I am not sure too observe the same.
- warkdarrior 11mo agoWe've had writing for only around 6000 years. It shall pass.
- Krssst 11mo agoPlus there are many contexts where you don't want to use your voice (public transport, night time with other people sleeping, noisy areas where a mic won't pick up your voice...). And there are people that unfortunately cannot speak.
- d-lisp 11mo agoWell, there are people that cannot see. Fortunately, there are solutions. I want to add that I think you are missing my argument here. Devices that allow you to speak without speaking shall soon be available to us [0]. The important aspect of my position is to think about the relevance of "applications" and "programs" in the age of AI, and, as an exaggeration of what is shown in that post, I was wondering if in the end, UI is not bound to disappear. [0] https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/alterego/overview/ https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/alterego/overview/
- yreg 11mo agoWhat GP describes sounds to me like having a friend control the computer and dictate to them what to do. No matter how capable the friend it, it's oftentimes easier to do a task directly in a UI rather than to have to verbalize it to someone else.
- andoando 11mo agoIve been imagining the same thing. Were kinda there with MCPs. Just needs full OS integration. Or I suppose you can write a bunch of clis and have LLM call them locally
- d-lisp 11mo agoWell, if you have a terminal emulator, a database, a voice recognition software, a LLM wrapped in such a way that it can interact with the other elements, you obtain a ressembling stack.
- finnborge 11mo agoI think this is well illustrated in a lot of science fiction. Irregular or abstract tasks are fairly efficiently articulated in speech, just like the ones you provided. Simpler, repetitive ones are not. Imagine having to ask your shower to turn itself on? Or your doors to open? Contextualized to "web-apps," as you have; navigating a list maybe requires an interface. It would be fairly tedious to differentiate between, for example, the 30 pairs of pants your computer has shown you after you asked "help me buy some pants" without using a UI (ok maybe eye-tracking?).
- d-lisp 11mo agoMaybe you don't even need a list if you can describe what you want or able to explain why the article you are currently viewing is not a match. As for repetitive tasks, you can just explain to your computer a "common procedure" ?
- roncesvalles 11mo agoOn a tangent but I still don't know why we don't have showers where you just press a button and it delivers water at the correct temperature. It seems like the simplest thing that everyone wants. A company that manufactures and installs this (a la SolarCity) should be an instant unicorn.
- lazide 11mo agoWater + electronics/power typically isn’t very durable, or reliable. Most people want their shower valves to work at least 20 years, ideally 50-100.
- tomasphan 11mo agoThis will eventually cause such reduction of agency that it will be perceived as fundamental threat to one's sense of freedom. I predict it will cause humanity to split into a group that accepts this, and one that rejects it at its fundamental level. We're already seeing the beginning of this with vinyl sales skyrocketing (back to 90s levels).
- d-lisp 11mo agoI must be really dumb because I enjoy producing music, programming, drawing for the sake of it, and not necessarily for creating viable products.
- AmbroseBierce 11mo ago>Can you set some timers for my sport session, can you plan a pure body weight session ? Yes, that's perfect. Wait, actually, remove the jumping jacks." Better yet, why exercise -which is so repetitive- if we can create a machine that just does it for you, including the dopamine triggering, why play an arcade video game where we can create a machine that fires the neuron needed to produce the exact same level of a excitement than the best video game. And why find mates when my robot can morph into any woman in the world, or better yet, the brain implants that trigger the exact same feelings than having sex and love. Bleak, we are oversimplifying existence itself and it doesn't lead to a nice place.
- d-lisp 11mo agoMaybe I should have rephrased everything with : " Make me happy" "Make me happy" "Make me happy" "Make me happy"
- sifar 11mo agoThat's an infinite loop.
- cluckindan 11mo agoStop the loop of wanting
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- fouc 11mo agoThe Tao of Zen in 5 words.
- hyperadvanced 11mo agoZizek is a good reference here. What’s the word for it, interpassivity?
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- darkstarsys 11mo agoI just this week vibe-coded a personal knowledge management app that reads all my org-mode and logseq files and answers questions, and can update them, with WebSpeech voice input. Now it's my todo manager, grocery list, "what do I need to do today?", "when did I get the leaves done the last few years?" and so on, even on mobile (bye bye Android-Emacs). It's just a basic chatbot with a few tools and access to my files, 100% customized for my personal needs, and it's great.
- timeon 11mo ago> “Hell of a world we live in, huh?” The proprietor was a thin black man with bad teeth and an obvious wig. I nodded, fishing in my jeans for change, anxious to find a park bench where I could submerge myself in hard evidence of the human near-dystopia we live in. “But it could be worse, huh?” > “That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.” -- William Gibson: The Gernsback Continuum
- narrator 11mo agoThis is what all the people put out of work by AI are going to do.