Question-answering systems and chatbots have inadvertently created a false narrative that AI can solve any problem with a simple prompt, including complex creative tasks like storytelling and filmmaking. The ability to generate video from language has been misinterpreted as the belief that you can create deep, emotionally sophisticated cinematic... See more
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... See more
My favorite example of truly effortless communication is a memory I have of my grandparents. At the breakfast table, my grandmother never had to ask for the butter – my grandfather always seemed to pass it to her automatically, because after 50+ years of marriage he just sensed that she was about to ask for it. It was like they were communicating... See more
“We made painting feel like typing, when we should have made typing feel like painting.”
Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Senses by @Wattenberger https://t.co/zcXe0WAbyP
This takes me to a second problem, though. Excel isn’t just giving suggestions - those tiles are documents, and documents are the start of a process, not an answer. You can see what you’ve built and what it’s doing, and how far you’ve got. The same sense of creation as process applies to Photoshop, Ableton or Powerpoint, or even a simple text... See more
AI has a UI problem
@OpenAI's decade of research worked when it became a chat UI
@cursor_ai fastest growing saas when they baked co-pilot into the editor UI
@meetgranola entered and scaling in the most AI saturated market with human agency... See more