[HN Gopher] Generative AI is also a revolution for computer inte...
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Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces
Author : legrande
Score : 27 points
Date : 2023-06-15 16:17 UTC (1 days ago)
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| Nihilartikel wrote:
| I've had great luck with chatGPT assisted FFMPEG commands.
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| There is very little that FFMPEG can't do as far as video
| manipulation, but getting a good CLI invocation is a lot of work,
| documentation surfing, and piecing things together from
| stackoverflow and Reddit. I don't really feel like committing
| such things to memory.
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| With ChatGPT, I can ask for it to make a parameterized bash
| script that takes a path for video input and output, and any
| other parameters of consequence and make a "converter from x
| format to Y using Z codec and nvidia hw accelerated encoding at W
| bit rate" and most of the time, the bash script that it gives me
| just works and I move it into my tool-bin.
|
| It's nice! There are probably a lot of other tedious pieces of
| automation that it can handle well even in its early state.
| mortenjorck wrote:
| _> Think of the hours saved -- and, in theory, productivity
| gained -- if you can simply tell your chatbot to clean up your
| inbox, change your system settings or connect to a printer._
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| I have a difficult time imagining myself trusting something as
| unpredictable as an LLM to perform any kind of "cleaning up" task
| on important data like my inbox. Perhaps future developments in
| utilizing language models in conjunction with less stochastic
| systems will make this an easier sell, but for now, I'm not
| seeing it.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| Yeah this is what I call the Minority Report fallacy. People
| see or imagine an interface that looks or sounds cool, but
| don't think through what it would be like to really use it
| every day.
|
| Do I really want to wave my arms to control an interface? No,
| they'd get tired immediately. A mouse on a desk where I can
| rest my arms isn't sexy because it's not new, but it's pretty
| much ideal.
| madrox wrote:
| As someone who's been working on this space as their day job
| for the last several months, I can say that LLMs are
| _SURPRISINGLY GOOD_ at this. The real challenge is the
| sentiment you 're articulating here...trust. I've been relating
| it to self-driving cars. I love the idea, but I'm going to be
| very anxious the first several times I climb into one to take
| me somewhere at freeway speeds.
|
| The biggest UX work in the short term is going to be around
| giving people the right amount of transparency so they still
| feel in control. The actual LLM work is relatively easy and
| impressive.
| moffkalast wrote:
| How can you get transparency from an LLM? They're complete
| black boxes by architecture.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| What if an LLM provides socially acceptable plausible
| deniability?
|
| "Sorry I didn't see your _important email_ ; my AI assistant
| deleted it"
| chefandy wrote:
| I entirely dislike this interface paradigm, but I don't think
| that is any more of a problem than "weird... it got sent to
| my spam folder."
| jonplackett wrote:
| This doesn't have to be for complex or really critical tasks to
| have value.
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| Just having it able to work a smart home or do basic things while
| talking natural is a big deal and a big increase in useful
| interface.
|
| I really like my Alexa - I love the _idea_ of a conversation
| interface, except an Alexa isn't that. It's a call and response
| only. I'd love to be able to talk to a computer out loud
| conversationally that can take actions / give me info.
|
| Even convos as simple as
|
| 'Hey what's the weather tomorrow'
|
| 'Tomorrow will be 25c and raining'
|
| 'What time will it rain?'
|
| 'Not until 4pm'
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| This simple stuff is currently WAY outside the abilities of any
| 'smart' assistant.
| musesum wrote:
| autocomplete your life:
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| . auto empty your mailbox of all that chat spam
|
| . auto swipe left on the fake profiles
|
| . auto curate your fake Drake playlist
|
| . auto prescribe meds to keep you normal
| meghan_rain wrote:
| > what is discoverability
| smy20011 wrote:
| I don't think so. Chat based interface is horrible on phone. You
| have to type what you want instead of tapping things.
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| Chatbot should be part of your ui instead of replacing the ui.
| selalipop wrote:
| I hear this often, but you don't need to surface the output of
| an LLM as chat
|
| I made https://notionsmith.ai and technically it's "chat
| based", but the user isn't exposed to 99% of the chatting: the
| only chat interface on the site is there more as a bonus
| feature than anything.
| cj wrote:
| I agree your app shouldn't be labeled 100% a chat bot, but
| the primary method of interacting with it is via natural
| language, which is the fundamental difference the article is
| describing.
| CharlesW wrote:
| > _You have to type what you want instead of tapping things._
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| On phones, I'd expect that voice will be a more popular input
| method than virtual keyboards.
| malfist wrote:
| That works in isolation, but not when you're not home. Do you
| want to talk to your phone in a public restroom, or the
| subway, or in the office?
| [deleted]
| ChatGTP wrote:
| It's not really convenient in many situations.
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