Interfaces

an extension of [your] body

webpages — apps, articles, and files — will become tool calls with AI chat interfaces

Happy to be proven wrong but I call bullshit on that. Most content is not going to be consumed inside chat interfaces. Hell, the other side of the AI debate is arguing we don

Search is not just getting the answer

Second, using a LLM to seek and find information severely limits your ability to learn. Chirag Shah and Emily M. Bender argue in their 2022 paper Situating Search that using language models for search is “flawed in technical and conceptual terms.”

such approaches miss the big picture of why people seek informati

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But more importantly, there’s something else about this whole idea of chatting-with-a-computer-to-get-answers-from-the-web that I find incredibly off-putting: the complete lack of potential for serendipity.

Happy to be proven wrong but I call bullshit on that. Most content is not going to be consumed inside chat interfaces. Hell, the other side of the AI debate is arguing we don’t need a screen at all and we’re just going to talk to all these AI tools in no time. So which one is it? I guess no one knows.