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Not sure I would lump command line interfaces from circa 1964 with GUIs from 1984 through to the present, all in a single "paradigm". That seems like a stretch.
Agreed. Also, Uber (and many other mobile apps) wouldn't work as a CLI or desktop GUI, so leaving out mobile is another stretch.
FB’s AI head just said LLMs are a fad. I thought about how to use them… I wish they could render an interface (HTML and JS at least, but also produce artifacts like PowerPoints). What is really needed is for LLMs to produce some structured markup, that can then be rendered as dynamic documents. Not text. As input, natural language is actually inferior to GUIs. I know the debate between command line people and GUI peo…
As someone who just spent 2 hours in my company's Confluence site, trying to track down the answer to a single question that could have been resolved in seconds by an LLM trained on an internal corporate corpus -- LLMs are very much not a fad.
Because it linked you to the source?
Like a vector database would? Google offered to index sites since 1996.
> With this new UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, the user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished. This doesn't seem like a whole new paradigm, we already do that. When I hit the "add comment" button below, I'm not specifically instructing the web server how I want my comment inserted into a database (if it even is a database at all.) This i…
If I had a spectrum of purely imperative on one side and purely declarative on the other, these new AIs are much closer to the latter than anything that has come before them. SQL errors if you don’t write in very specific language. These new AIs will accept anything and give it their best shot.
The article fails to grasp the essence of what UI is actually about. I agree that AI is adding a new layer to UI and UX design. In our work [1] we have seen an increase in AI projects or features the last 12 months (for obvious reasons). However, the way that AI will contribute to better UI is to remove parts of the Interface. not simply giving it a new form. Let me explain, the ultimate UI is no UI. In a perfect sce…
> the goal of Interface design is to find the least amount of things needed to get you from point A to the desired Destination as quickly as possible. That shouldn't be the primary goal of user interfaces, in my opinion. The primary goal should be to allow users to interface with the machine in a way that allows maximal understanding with minimal cognitive load. I understand a lot of UI design these days prioritizes…
If you use your phone, is your primary goal to interface with it in a way that allows maximal understanding with minimal cognitive load?
I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. You go read the news, send a message to a loved one etc. there’s a human need that you’re aiming to fulfill. Interfacing with tech is not the underlying desire. It’s what happens on the surface as a means.
Then they flooded the search results with ads and now you can search but hardly find.
I bet the same will happen with software like ChatGPT.
FB’s AI head just said LLMs are a fad. I thought about how to use them… I wish they could render an interface (HTML and JS at least, but also produce artifacts like PowerPoints). What is really needed is for LLMs to produce some structured markup, that can then be rendered as dynamic documents. Not text. As input, natural language is actually inferior to GUIs. I know the debate between command line people and GUI peo…
As someone who just spent 2 hours in my company's Confluence site, trying to track down the answer to a single question that could have been resolved in seconds by an LLM trained on an internal corporate corpus -- LLMs are very much not a fad.
LLMs as the solution for every, or most, problems is a fad.
That website has a surprisingly boring design. I haven't looked at it in years, and was expecting some impressively clean and elegant design. But it looks like a Wordpress site.
So now I’m imagining the horror predictions for Word where 90% of the screen was button bars. But the twist is that you type in some text and then click on “prompt” buttons repeatedly hoping to get the document formatting you wanted, probably settling for something that was “close enough” with a shrug.
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I was thinking of imperative vs declarative, too. SQL is declaritive with a pre-defined syntax and grammar as an interface, where as the AI style of interaction has a natural language interface.
SQL and XSLT are declarative, but the outputs are clean and intuitive. The data model and data set are probably well understood, as is the mapping to and from the query. AI is a very different type of declarative. It's messy, difficult to intuit, has more dimensionality, and the outputs can be signals rather than tabular data records. It rhymes, but it doesn't feel the same.