With the current euphoria around ChatGPT, many forget that Conversational UX is not the holy grail of computing soft design. We will always need custom Interfaces for better control.<p>This article showcases a brilliant series of applications for Information-intensive activities (research...) :<p>1- Search the Web / KBs: It is not either Google or ChatGPT [4]. There is a lot of potential in the space between, especially for particular domains like academia KBs (Elicit [0]),or personal KBs/data (revery [3])<p>2. Assist Reading / Understanding : this includes highlighting/auto-linking Text (to rapidly scan it in context [1])
and summarizing/explaining [2]<p>OP also shows the need for AI text tools to give us more control over the output (the way AUTOMATIC1111 does it with Stable diffusion). He gives 2 examples for text rephrasing (Protopolis, Clay)<p>Essentially: <i>it is the UX, stupid</i> : AI is too raw a power, it needs to be channelled.<p>[0] <a href="https://elicit.org/" rel="nofollow">https://elicit.org/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://costructure.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow">https://costructure.vercel.app/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.explainpaper.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.explainpaper.com/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/revery" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thesephist/revery</a><p>[4] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33817682" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33817682</a>