Everyone talking about the future of search, but I'm particularly excited about the future of the browser — Edge will now include an AI assistant that can help you anywhere on the web.
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) February 7, 2023
Really starting to point at the future of UI: https://t.co/UnHYkai8pT pic.twitter.com/QK95UtVt5W
See these posts about a start-up, ADEPT:
- I called it. Adept intends to make it so. [Neil Stephenson was there in ‘95]
- The Near Future of AI is Action-Driven [+Adept]
- We’ve stepped over the threshold into the Fourth Arena, but don’t recognize it
- Two AI companies converging on (the mythical) AGI from different directions
Back in 2003 or 2004 I wrote up some notes for something I called PowerPoint Assistant, a natural language front-end for Powerpoint. But the idea would work for any application. I even imagined the result would be a new paradigm for computing. I put the idea online in 2015.
