anyway, idly wondering if we're at still at the Palm Pilot days of "AI" or if we already passed the 2007 iPhone stage I don't think ChatGPT was the 2007 iPhone stage, but then again, I don't use it, and clearly many people do! - ThreadSky

danhon.com • 12 days ago

anyway, idly wondering if we're at still at the Palm Pilot days of "AI" or if we already passed the 2007 iPhone stage

I don't think ChatGPT was the 2007 iPhone stage, but then again, I don't use it, and clearly many people do!

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shayelk.in•12 days ago

I have an even a better analogy: ages ago, I was working on a very early NLP system. SMS started gaining steam, and goal was to respond to natural language questions in a very specific domain (say, bus arrival times). Turns out it was cheaper to get humans to text in a pre-specified template.

danhon.com•12 days ago

oh yeah, I wasn't even going down the graffiti route

shayelk.in•12 days ago

It's a perfect match though: we are pushed to adapt our lives for AI interactions rather than the other way around.

danhon.com•12 days ago

Oh definitely, it's been true ever since the first mass-market voice assistants turned up. Especially so with Weirdo Unpredictable Syntax Siri

danhon.com•12 days ago

When Kinect came out for the Xbox 360 and was available in the UK I consistently had to summon it by saying XBAWKS instead of Xbox in my English accent.

ratkins.net•12 days ago

The only way for me (Australian) to reliably get Apple TV to search a movie for me is to bung on a ridiculous Valley Girl accent.

jonas.so•11 days ago

I think we’re mid-1980s at the first graphical user interfaces for desktop PCs with GPTs right now

danhon.com•12 days ago

(I think we're still in the Palm Pilot days. Nobody has brought everything together in a compelling-enough way yet).

elucidating.bsky.social•12 days ago

The thing Google announced today, a more robust version of perplexity style search, might be getting towards an early blackberry?

danhon.com•12 days ago

Too janky.

Not sure that Apple could pull off an iPhone integration here, though, while the iPhone integration (in retrospect, I acknowledge), feels like something they could've totally done.

danhon.com•12 days ago

Something Something Palm Pilots were also cognitive augmentations that made themselves accessible in a different way, lots of people used them but not actually that many, and they were still a precursor to something that had a much more natural way of interaction

pboothe.bsky.social•12 days ago

There’s a few ways LLMs have gotten integrated into IDEs that means they don’t need lots of copy and paste to be useful (eg https://cursor.com) Those feel like the first steps towards a more usable interface.

danhon.com•12 days ago

Yeah, but see: yeah, but see: https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai

pboothe.bsky.social•12 days ago

Totally! The tool isn’t up to the task of doing anything open-ended (despite what its boosters claim). But if you’ve got a focused question and a design document describing the standards it needs to meet, then it’ll do good work. It’s especially good at writing unit tests.

jonathan.eylerwerve.com•12 days ago

Chatbots as a primary interface are the web browser in the Sega console that put all the websites in as little buildings

danhon.com•12 days ago

Apple eWorld

folletto.bsky.social•12 days ago

I think we are in the “mobile phone of the size of a bag” stage, with people “wow I can make calls from anywhere!”.

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