chat interfaces
The text box as the way into a model: whether chat is the future of software or a terrible interface, and what replaces it.
FilterEveryone, all time
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Peter Steinberger quoted
Their wordsLike, if you think more globally, we are, we copied Google for agents. You have, like, a prompt, and, and then you have a chat interface. That, to me, very much feels like when we first created television and then people recorded radio shows on television and you saw that on TV.
↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 16th of 25 in this recording
- 7 days earlier
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Mitchell Hashimoto quoted
Their wordsImmediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.
- 5 months earlier
- LW
Luke Wroblewski quoted
Their wordsIt's also worth noting that chat isn't the only way to integrate AI in software products and increasingly agent-based applications outperform chat-only solutions. So expect things to keep changing.
- 4 months earlier
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Julie Zhuo quoted
Their wordsThe technology powering ChatGPT had already launched prior to November 30th, 2022. It was just wrapped in a different interface. Very few people paid attention. Why did ChatGPT explode in popularity? Because of its obvious chat interface, which everyone intuitively already knew how to use it.
↗Conversational Interfaces: the Good, the Ugly & the Billion-Dollar Opportunitylg.substack.com
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Julie Zhuo quoted
Their wordsThe problem with a blank chat box on a blank page is that it violates the first rule of a high-quality user experience: it isn’t obvious what I can do.
↗Conversational Interfaces: the Good, the Ugly & the Billion-Dollar Opportunitylg.substack.com
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Julie Zhuo quoted
Their wordsConversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.
↗Conversational Interfaces: the Good, the Ugly & the Billion-Dollar Opportunitylg.substack.com
- 23 months earlier
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Jakob Nielsen quoted
Their wordsFor sure, half the population is insufficiently articulate in writing to use ChatGPT well.
↗The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usabilityjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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Jakob Nielsen quoted
Their wordsGUIs have superior usability because they show people what can be done rather than requiring them to articulate what they want.
↗The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usabilityjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
- 4 days earlier
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Jakob Nielsen quoted
Their wordsI doubt that the current set of generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, Bard, etc., are representative of the UIs we’ll be using in a few years because they have deep-rooted usability problems.
↗AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Yearsjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
- 7 weeks earlier
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Amelia Wattenberger quoted
Their wordsGood tools make it clear how they should be used. And more importantly, how they should not be used.
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Amelia Wattenberger quoted
Their wordsGood tools let the user choose when to switch between implementation and evaluation. When I work with a chatbot, I'm forced to frequently switch between the two modes.
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Amelia Wattenberger quoted
Our readingChatbots are a terrible interface for large language models, because a text box has no affordances.
Their wordsHopefully I've convinced you that chatbots are a terrible interface for LLMs. Or, at the very least, that we can add controls, information, and affordances to our chatbot interfaces to make them more usable.
- 2 months earlier
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Their wordsThe problem is that the conversational interface is potent and that the AI is trained on a lot of human text input which unfortunately is probably enough to do real damage if that conversational interface is hooked up with something that has real world consequences.