“I feel like Spotify is coming alive, and you can literally start talking to it,” Söderström said.
I don’t want to talk to my tools, I want them to do things. Introducing a layer where misunderstanding is rampant (conversation) is a horrible experience.
Yeah, same here, so many cases they want to champion a “conversation”… No, I want the simple and precise interactions for these things, maybe a chat can work for a ‘search’ dialog, but for a music player, it’s job is to play music, and let me skip to next on occasion.
Similar for fast food ordering. The kiosks and apps frankly I’ve liked the option to enter my order precisely without a clerk to mess it up. Advocating for chat for those is a step backwards too.
I don’t want to talk to my tools, I want them to do things. Introducing a layer where misunderstanding is rampant (conversation) is a horrible experience.
I’m starting to get the feeling that AIs are a lot like monorails.
Yeah, same here, so many cases they want to champion a “conversation”… No, I want the simple and precise interactions for these things, maybe a chat can work for a ‘search’ dialog, but for a music player, it’s job is to play music, and let me skip to next on occasion.
Similar for fast food ordering. The kiosks and apps frankly I’ve liked the option to enter my order precisely without a clerk to mess it up. Advocating for chat for those is a step backwards too.