Nope, no one can grasp the obvious. A failure of imagination. VUIs are a total joke to me, like a CLI but you cannot backspace and edit before you press enter, so better not make a mistake in diction or syntax or you get to start over.
You are right on the money that if we want to be able to use snazzy features, let's admit that people DNGAF about which menu it is in, and will never remember that in 2 months when they need it again. If you want to exploit natural language interfaces ā and Siri implies that yes they do ā then why not do something /useful/ with it. I say just because everyone is navel gazing, looking at some specific metrics like use or accuracy not user value.
Lots of great gripes to be had about how we mostly do the wrong things because a few levels above us is measuring the wrong thing, the wrong way. Streaming starting to collapse is from loosing the vision so turning a windfall (also get money from Netflix streaming our back catalog!) to an opportunity (could we make more money if we streamed ourselves?!) to a cost (oh, it costs money to run a service...) to a liability (cut costs, increase revenue, you have to be a profit center or else!).
The problem is that the behaviour you dream of probably requires a top down + bottom up approach, which -at the moment- is far from being reached (and nobody is seriously working on, Apple included). To be clear : you would need some software behaving more like AlphaGo than ChatGPT... LLMs are too unreliable even to perform the somple pre defined tasks you mentioned
"These are human activities, and ones that AI frankly sucks at. Yet this is the stuff the AI companies are pouring billions into."
The examples of what *you* want AI to do are endemic to you, and the plural of anecdote is not data.
The majority of people suck at writing. AI helps them.
The majority of people couldn't layout a page or ad, or choose two fonts to go together if they had a š« to their head. AI helps them.
And the overwhelming majority of the populace will never attemptānor have any reasonāto create 3D modeling or create beat tracks ā especially in obscure time signatures.
Is what AI generates ideal? Hell no.
You want those things (and to be fair, so do I), but we are not the majority. Most people just want to be able to write a better resume.
Nope, no one can grasp the obvious. A failure of imagination. VUIs are a total joke to me, like a CLI but you cannot backspace and edit before you press enter, so better not make a mistake in diction or syntax or you get to start over.
You are right on the money that if we want to be able to use snazzy features, let's admit that people DNGAF about which menu it is in, and will never remember that in 2 months when they need it again. If you want to exploit natural language interfaces ā and Siri implies that yes they do ā then why not do something /useful/ with it. I say just because everyone is navel gazing, looking at some specific metrics like use or accuracy not user value.
Lots of great gripes to be had about how we mostly do the wrong things because a few levels above us is measuring the wrong thing, the wrong way. Streaming starting to collapse is from loosing the vision so turning a windfall (also get money from Netflix streaming our back catalog!) to an opportunity (could we make more money if we streamed ourselves?!) to a cost (oh, it costs money to run a service...) to a liability (cut costs, increase revenue, you have to be a profit center or else!).
Spot the hell on!
The problem is that the behaviour you dream of probably requires a top down + bottom up approach, which -at the moment- is far from being reached (and nobody is seriously working on, Apple included). To be clear : you would need some software behaving more like AlphaGo than ChatGPT... LLMs are too unreliable even to perform the somple pre defined tasks you mentioned
"These are human activities, and ones that AI frankly sucks at. Yet this is the stuff the AI companies are pouring billions into."
The examples of what *you* want AI to do are endemic to you, and the plural of anecdote is not data.
The majority of people suck at writing. AI helps them.
The majority of people couldn't layout a page or ad, or choose two fonts to go together if they had a š« to their head. AI helps them.
And the overwhelming majority of the populace will never attemptānor have any reasonāto create 3D modeling or create beat tracks ā especially in obscure time signatures.
Is what AI generates ideal? Hell no.
You want those things (and to be fair, so do I), but we are not the majority. Most people just want to be able to write a better resume.