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
“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
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
Today I’m launching Swipe -- a new way to steer image models.
The idea is simple – start with a prompt, swipe left / right to steer the model towards what you’re thinking of. https://t.co/zG3iQ7NXGR
This brings me to my core thesis: The inconvenience and inferior data transfer speeds of conversational interfaces make them an unlikely replacement for existing computing paradigms – but what if they complement them?