[HN Gopher] Sierra Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Web...
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       Sierra Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2024-02-17 21:08 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/Qu2Q4
        
       | wslh wrote:
       | Isn't this obvious? There is the concept of interface in the
       | context of social communications science [1] and it seems that
       | the conversational AI will eat them all. Frankly, not saying that
       | apps or websites will be killed but will be neglected to that
       | single interface.
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       | Nowadays, there are many searches where it is much easier and
       | quick to get a result using ChatGPT or Gemini than the Google
       | search engine, yet Google has around 90% of the market now.
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       | [1]
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_(communication_studi...
        
       | llamaLord wrote:
       | What a lot of this misses is the issue of bandwidth. Chat based
       | interfaces are great when your area of investigation is
       | incredibly narrow and you want highly focused, precise answers.
       | 
       | It's terrible when you want broad swaths of input that you're
       | scanning through to discover new things. Text is an extremely low
       | bandwidth communication tool.
        
         | esafak wrote:
         | Some people are still in the honeymoon phase with
         | conversational UIs.
        
       | RecycledEle wrote:
       | I hope not.
       | 
       | Disclaimer: I'm the guy who still resists https every chance I
       | get because people can see my static web site serving one of 10
       | files, but we must not lose the ability if a newb to cose their
       | own browser or web server.
        
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