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Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?
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#12The best experience with AI is not using it at all. I prefer interacting with humans.
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#13No one? In my opinion we are not there yet. Right now "chat" is the killer UX, I think conversational inputs will take over for a time... right now my killer AI app is a home brew slack bot RAG pipeline for my own knowledge base building and searching... Why share it, its free now... I think this will also be a trend. Those who can, those who cant.
Chat sucks and will be replaced in almost all cases, I suspect. Speaking is much easier for many tasks, traditional UIs for others. Mediating everything through a keyboard is clunky and slow.
A keyboard is really nice input method, with current technology
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#14The voice chat in the ChatGPT app. The present has never been more futuristic than that, I really feel like I'm talking to another person. It's not just what the responses are, but also how, the voice really brings the whole interaction to life.
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#15Which AI you mean? It's so ubiquitous that it's hard to pick. Categorization and labelling existed before LLM-s, but they made it much better. Imagine not having to manually label support tickets if you have a 1000 new every day.
3D model generation is also a good example, you can save tons of time.
AI is everywhere, but most of the time you simply don't notice it since it's so well integrated or they are driving backend logic, anti fraud systems, etc.
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#16Well, as a blind user, I'd like to point at the OpenAI Vision integration of BeMyEyes! Being able to get fully detailed scene descriptions including OCR and translation all in one package was pretty much a game changer for me. Not so much kick-ass, but still works nicely: https://github.com/mlang/tracktales -- My MPD track announcer with support for describing album art...
This is an example of great AI UX and not sure why it's not upvoted more. It's rare for users to use the term "Game Changer" when it comes to UX.
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#17Gonna drop my own link here, because I really think the UX I’m working on is truly novel. Inspired by the commonplace book format, I take highlights from Kindle and embed them in a DB [1]. From there I build (multiple) downstream apps but the central one, Commonplace Bot [2] is a bot that serves as a retrieval and transformer for said highlights. It has changed the way I read books. I now get to link ideas from books I read in 2018 to books I read last week. I don’t need to always have a query either, as I added a hypothetical question as an entry point allowing for the UX of finding an idea to be as simple as typing “wander”. Finally, since quotes are dense, short, and generally context free, I enable a bunch of transformations like Anki quizzes, and art from quotes, and using the quote itself as a centroid to search its neighbors, etc.
[1] - https://github.com/bramses/quoordinates [2] - https://github.com/bramses/commonplace-bot
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?
#18It's difficult to spot, because - similar to your sysadmin - if you know it's AI, it's probably because it's doing a bad job. It's when it just blends into the overall experience so you don't even notice it's there that it's great. There are cases where AI is helping a company be more profitable, by allowing them to provide a substandard service with fewer humans. From a company perspective, it's doing great, but the end user experience sucks.
So, my list:
* Spotify's weekly picks used to be pretty good at recommending new music, although it's actually got worse in the last 2-3 years.
* AI filtering out things like fraudulent transactions and virus-laden web pages. They're a long way from 100%, but it's got better, even as the challenge has got bigger.
* Some games have started making good use of AI - Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably the best I've played. Makes the in-game world feel a bit more dynamic, rather than the same procedural world.
* Google Maps does a lot with AI, redirecting based on traffic. It doesn't go out of its way to tell you how clever it's being, so it's hard to spot. But 10 years ago, I used to get stuck in a lot more traffic than I do now.
* ChatGPT is awesome, even if the hype cycle is now turning and we're all eye-rolling at it. I've conversed with it to improve my understanding of all sorts of topics, and it is amazing.
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#19Talking with an LLM feels very different to me from text-based chat interactions.
I used the spoken interface with ChatGPT 4 a lot a few months ago after it was released on the iPhone app, and it was pretty immersive. The latency was a bit long, though, and even when prompted to reply briefly the bot tended to ramble on, often with numbered lists, which sound awkward in speech.
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been experimenting with Inflection AI’s Pi. Its voices are very natural—the American female voice I use even has vocal fry [1]—and the latency is short. It will talk about serious topics (sometimes with numbered lists), but it seems prompted mainly for friendly conversation. It calls me by my name and remembers our previous conversations. I can easily see people becoming emotionally attached to bots like that.
A man named Chris Cappetta has created some open-source software for talking with Claude 3. His conversations with the bot about AI are pretty remarkable [2, 3].
The current spoken interfaces all seem to run what the user says through a speech-to-text converter, so the bot does not perceive pronunciation, intonation, hesitation, etc. After multimodal models that can hear and respond to the speaker’s tone become available, the experience will become even stickier.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?
#20Well, as a blind user, I'd like to point at the OpenAI Vision integration of BeMyEyes! Being able to get fully detailed scene descriptions including OCR and translation all in one package was pretty much a game changer for me. Not so much kick-ass, but still works nicely: https://github.com/mlang/tracktales -- My MPD track announcer with support for describing album art...
This is an example of great AI UX and not sure why it's not upvoted more. It's rare for users to use the term "Game Changer" when it comes to UX.
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