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Interesting! I wonder how UI will evolve in the long-term? If there are browser-use/computer-use and clicky-clones automating pointer actions, do we really need complex UI anymore? If yes, when?
At some point I fully expect eye tracking (or attention tracking) to be common enough to be a first-class input method.
It reminds me of Microsoft Recall in the sense that some portion of the screen is going to be continuously transmitted outside of the users control.
What happens when someone browses something very private (planning a surprise engagement. looking at medical data. planning a protest)? All that data gets slurped to google and subject to a warrant or discovery or building your advertising fingerprint.
Maybe the idea is that the data is sent to AI only when you right click, but that seems like a very thin firewall that a product manager will breach in the interests of delivering "predictive AI" via some kind of precomputed results.
I wonder what sort of monstrous power would be unleashed if Google used Plan9 as a foundation.
Both of the text based demos would have been simpler and faster with traditional mouse and keyboard interactions. What is the AI adding?
On a less serious note, the audience for this is people who want to optimize for what seems like the least amount of effort.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but what is new about the pointer itself? Seems to be functionally the same as selecting + tooltips / context menus.
Anything with voice controls for routine use is a pretty tough sell. Doing this when you're not completely alone would be annoying to everyone around you.
Most of their examples seem like they could have been done with a right click drop down menu so they don't really need to "re-invent the mouse pointer".
So is this thing talking to Google's servers all the time for the AI integration? So it won't work if you're not connected to the internet? Privacy concerns are obvious; now Google wants to have an AI watching literally everything you do on your computer?
Does it cost the user anything for the LLM use? If it's free will it stay free forever? That's quite a lot to give away if they're expecting people to use it to change a single word like in one of their examples. I guess they're expecting to make the money back by gathering data about literally everything you do on your computer.
There might be a killer app for AI integration with personal computers that has yet to be invented, but this doesn't look like it.
My first impression coming away from this is skepticism. Anything with voice controls for routine use is a pretty tough sell. Doing this when you're not completely alone would be annoying to everyone around you. Most of their examples seem like they could have been done with a right click drop down menu so they don't really need to "re-invent the mouse pointer". So is this thing talking to Google's servers all the ti…