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Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

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Re: Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

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Post by accurrent »

kjellsbells wrote: post #22

I sense a privacy problem brewing. 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 advertis…

At some point I hope that we will reach a point where these megacorps figure that running these things locally might be most cost effective. FWIW I think local models I run on my MacBook are good enough for most of the tasks that this kind of interaction may ask for.

Re: Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

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Post by aquariusDue »

concinds wrote: post #64
why_at wrote: post #28

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…

The second half of your comment is a go-to-market concern but doesn't feel so relevant for a research prototype. It could be done with a private local model too, maybe not by Google. But I don't think the voice problem is surmountable. I closed their image editing demo when I saw it required a mic. It would be appealing as a Spotlight-like text pop-up interface where you type instructions, which would work in social/…

This will sound like another brick in the paved road to dystopia but I'm kinda bullish on equipment that can recognize subvocalization. Or at least let me have a small drawing tablet with a stylus (think etch-a-sketch or Wacom Intuos) because at this point I'd rather practice writing and do away with typing altogether (even though I enjoy typing for typing's sake via MonkeyType).

Re: Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

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Post by skydhash »

order-matters wrote: post #70
footy wrote: post #63

you can really tell the people building these tools spend a lot of time alone. I work from a home office 90% of the time and I wouldn't want this to be my workflow. I don't want to talk to my computer, I want to listen to music while I work, and I want to not sound deranged and disturb everyone around me when I am working from a coffeeshop or the open-plan office or the airport or the train or whatever. and that's as…

yeah, i understand the frustration of needing to do all the communication through typing and clicking and that it can feel limiting - but i want the computer to be less demanding of my physical reality not more. i want to be able to talk to someone on the phone, work on something ith my hands, and still successfully manage my compute tasks. improvement can only be made by requiring less attention to hte screen and le…

> i want to be able to talk to someone on the phone, work on something with my hands, and still successfully manage my compute tasks.

Maybe you can share a scenario for that one? I can’t figure a scenario where all of this needs to be true. It seems like a recipe for accidents.

Re: Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

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Post by walrus01 »

delusional wrote: post #69

Its like watching a demo from the old Xerox PARC, except everybody has only bad ideas. Like an opposite Xerox PARC.

It's like a demo from Xerox PARC in an alternate universe where everything is run by marketing department MBAs. Oh wait, that's the one we live in now.

Re: Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

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Post by kixiQu »

I'm pretty sure all these models have terms of service that make the user assert that they have permission to use the content you're feeding into them (clickwrap infringement-is-the-user's-fault). This kind of integration makes a mockery of that.
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