I’m tired so I’ll keep it short.
Will a chatbot just not play a role at all when it comes to the future of computing, or will everything evolve around the chatbot. I see both visions, and the first one seems far more inovative. Let me explain.
I fire up my computer and get greeted by a chat bar just like chat.com currently is. Whatever it is I want to do, this is where I start. I want to send an email to a friend? I can write or tell em to write an email right from that chatbar. I got a new email? The chatbot tells me! I want to check the weather? I ask the chatbot. I want to plan a trip? I tell the chatbot and we co-create that route. The chatbot has the ability to call certain screens or maybe using genUI create those on the fly to f.ex. display the weather nicer or actually show the route created on a map. I want to see images of a place on that route? I get those inline in that chat interface. There’s no need for apps, there’s only integrations through cli’s and it’s just all there. And responses don’t need to be wordy, if I ask for images in the chat I can just get them. And the system is proactive, when he gets an email he suggests a reply, asks if you want to see images, tells you to check a stock if it knows you’re into stocks, etc.
We humans are used to interact with each other by text and words, so this would feel natural. As close as a computer can get to a human assistant. In that sense.
The other approach is way harder though. True predictive computing. And where do I even start? Let’s work this backwards.
Instead of me having to ask for the weather, what if the UI just asks me if I want to see the weather? Or just pulls it up? What if instead of me asking for an email, the Email just opens ready to be sent? What if Applications such as Figma or Final Cut just opened when I want to use them? But how?
Well, predictive. We spend so much time on our computer that even if we think that there’s no pattern, there has to be one. But how would it know whom I want to message any gossip when I just sit down on the computer? Well, because I carried my iPhone around and it cought up on it. Scary, but it records locally.
What the core interface is though when we look at this predictive model still remains open. Maybe it’s a system just like what we have at the moment, just simpler. Maybe it actually is a very flexible chat interface. Let’s see.
Good night.