added by sari · updated 2y ago
Natural language is the lazy user interface
- Google gives you Ten Blue Links, which communicates “it might be one of these - see what you think” (and turns us all into Mechanical Turks, giving Google feedback by picking the best answer). But a chat bot gives you three paragraphs of text with apparent certainty as The Answer, and footnotes, a click-through disclaimer and a ‘be careful!’ boiler... See more
from Unbundling AI by Benedict Evans
A couple participants found success using the chatbot as a convenient search engine alternative (KL, WT). KL wrote: “It’s kind of great to use the chat interface and treat LaMDA as a thesaurus, quote finder, and general research assistant.”
from Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers by Daphne Ippolito
Isabelle Levent added
- We also now have a persuasive “so what?” These technologies have enabled a whole new user interface for computers: human language. Just like the graphical user interface made the personal computer accessible to millions of customers in the 1980s, so too have the new natural language interfaces made AI accessible to hundreds of millions of users wor... See more
from AI and the Frontier Paradox by Konstantine Buhler
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