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Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Post by taneq »

"AI" is a moving target but a few months ago I was blown away to find out that phones are WAY better at semantically tagging photos now, to a point where it's actually useful. I can search my phone photos for 'cat' or 'car' (or more usefully, that one scanned pic of my drivers' license if I forgot my ID). Sure, resnet has been around for a while and this is still not great but it's there in production right now and has been legitimately useful to me.

Recently I got to drive a rental Corolla with lanekeep assist and smart-ish cruise control which could sorta keep itself on the road by itself. It was definitely a fun toy for a controls engineer, kind of like riding a narcoleptic horse with ADHD but still on the cusp of being a net positive.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Post by appplication »

sp332 wrote: post #28
adrianh wrote: post #8

At Soundslice we're using a custom machine learning system to convert sheet music images into semantic music data: https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/ Personally I think the user experience is interesting because we show you very specific questions for low-confidence decisions. Some example screenshots are on that link above. Over time, the number of manual questions has gone down, as our models have gott…

Wow, I think AI that can ask questions might be a killer app.

Agree. Since ChatGPT came out I thought it was neat, but to be useful I’d want something that asked me questions instead.

E.g. “I see you have a meeting with Tim later today, what’s your planned agenda? What are your target outcomes?”

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Post by spacecadet »

spacecadet wrote: post #2

No 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.

You all took chat as a single type of interaction... "CHAT" as I put it, is typing, talking, screen readers, etc... conversational UX...

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Post by 47thpresident »

There is a segment in a recent Linus Tech Tips video [1] that showcased media asset management software [2] where you can search for portions of locally stored videos via natural language. e.g. Person X holding object Y, working on task Z. If this type of AI video tagging comes to mobile I think it will be a game changer.

[1] https://youtu.be/CcHevgjAnV0?feature=shared&t=1374 [2] https://axle.ai/

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Post by spacecadet »

spacecadet wrote: post #53
spacecadet wrote: post #2

No 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.

You all took chat as a single type of interaction... "CHAT" as I put it, is typing, talking, screen readers, etc... conversational UX...

Downvotes but you all have the wrong idea. Classic hacker news... "Dont tell me!!" lol, eat a bag of...

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Post by guappa »

stavros wrote: post #50
guappa wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking is tiring. And generally also slower than typing.

I very much doubt that speaking is slower than typing, given that basically only stenographers can transcribe things in real time, and that's by using special technique.

Try typing for 4h and talking for 4h.

Leaving aside the problem that you can no longer share a space if you interact by talking.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Post by stavros »

guappa wrote: post #56
stavros wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I very much doubt that speaking is slower than typing, given that basically only stenographers can transcribe things in real time, and that's by using special technique.

Try typing for 4h and talking for 4h. Leaving aside the problem that you can no longer share a space if you interact by talking.

Talking is still faster, and I can do it while my hands and eyes are occupied, so I definitely don't see typing ever being the preferred interface. You'd never type to interact with an assistant while driving.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best user experiences with AI?

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Post by bedits »

AI applications that aim to provide positive user experiences:

a. Personal assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant.

b. AI photo editing tools that allow users to quickly enhance photos with filters, touch-ups, and automated suggestions.

c. AI tools that augment creative work like automated image generation, video editing assistants, writing aids, and more.

d. Accessibility tools using AI for tasks like vision assistance, transcription, translation, and more.

e. Personalized digital assistants created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest.

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