AI as an Information Interface

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Post by zeynepevecen » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 1:31 PM UTC

AI as an Information Interface
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Re: AI as an Information Interface

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Post by nuz » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 1:46 PM UTC

Yep, and I would have been really excited about this if it wasn't that they're hidden away behind an internet required api that can be taken away from you with rate limits.

Re: AI as an Information Interface

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Post by gmaster1440 » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 1:47 PM UTC

The biggest hurdle I'm personally struggling with now as a software engineer trying to find the motivation to continue writing code and developing products isn't simply that AI is getting better and better at writing more complex code and doing more of my job for me (though it certainly doesn't help), but more importantly that it will soon do away with entire classes and categories of desktop, web, and mobile applications as the human interface evolves towards conversational, intent-driven interactions with AI.

Vast majority of all apps are just tables, forms, and JSON over the wire—I don't see that continuing to be the case for much longer.

Re: AI as an Information Interface

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Post by ganzuul » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 1:48 PM UTC

Looking forward to the day when we refer to this interface as an example of psychotronics.

Re: AI as an Information Interface

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Post by dbs » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 1:54 PM UTC

We went from CLIs to GUIs to touchscreens and we will see more and more of MCBs, multimodal chatbot, where the interaction is done by text, voice, maybe even other on the future. AI is just the “software” that enables those interfaces, not the interface per se.

Re: AI as an Information Interface

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Post by danielvaughn » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 1:59 PM UTC

gmaster1440 wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle I'm personally struggling with now as a software engineer trying to find the motivation to continue writing code and developing products isn't simply that AI is getting better and better at writing more complex code and doing more of my job for me (though it certainly doesn't help), but more importantly that it will soon do away with entire classes and categories of desktop, web, and mobile applica…

For me it's both, as well as the unknown unknowns over the next 5-10 years. There's a chance that everything changes so dramatically that it feels almost worthless to commit to anything. We need some kind of term for this AI malaise.

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Re: AI as an Information Interface

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Post by sghiassy » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 2:00 PM UTC

gmaster1440 wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle I'm personally struggling with now as a software engineer trying to find the motivation to continue writing code and developing products isn't simply that AI is getting better and better at writing more complex code and doing more of my job for me (though it certainly doesn't help), but more importantly that it will soon do away with entire classes and categories of desktop, web, and mobile applica…

It’s a stochastic interface. That medium isn’t applicable for a wide variety of interfaces, so there is still very much a place for boring UI with JSON over the wire

Re: AI as an Information Interface

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Post by gmaster1440 » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 2:01 PM UTC

sghiassy wrote: post #8

gmaster1440 wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle I'm personally struggling with now as a software engineer trying to find the motivation to continue writing code and developing products isn't simply that AI is getting better and better at writing more complex code and doing more of my job for me (though it certainly doesn't help), but more importantly that it will soon do away with entire classes and categories of desktop, web, and mobile applica…

It’s a stochastic interface. That medium isn’t applicable for a wide variety of interfaces, so there is still very much a place for boring UI with JSON over the wire

With more capable models, reliable test time compute, and more sophisticated RAG (https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-rockset/) I genuinely struggle to see meaningful use cases for traditional user interfaces.

Re: AI as an Information Interface

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Post by visarga » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 2:03 PM UTC

gmaster1440 wrote: post #3

The biggest hurdle I'm personally struggling with now as a software engineer trying to find the motivation to continue writing code and developing products isn't simply that AI is getting better and better at writing more complex code and doing more of my job for me (though it certainly doesn't help), but more importantly that it will soon do away with entire classes and categories of desktop, web, and mobile applica…

I expect MacOS to be first at implementing intents across apps, Windows to follow. Your app or website has no intent API? it is not going to play nice with the ecosystem. So you got to keep up