<story><title>AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years?</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-paradigm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wbobeirne</author><text>&amp;gt; With this new UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, the user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished.&lt;p&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a whole new paradigm, we already do that. When I hit the &amp;quot;add comment&amp;quot; button below, I&amp;#x27;m not specifically instructing the web server how I want my comment inserted into a database (if it even is a database at all.) This is just another abstraction on top of an already very tall layer of abstractions. Whether it&amp;#x27;s AI under the hood, or a million monkeys with a million typewriters, it doesn&amp;#x27;t change my interaction at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Timon3</author><text>I think the important part from the article that establishes the difference is this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; As I mentioned, in command-based interactions, the user issues commands to the computer one at a time, gradually producing the desired result (if the design has sufficient usability to allow people to understand what commands to issue at each step). The computer is fully obedient and does exactly what it’s told. The downside is that low usability often causes users to issue commands that do something different than what the users really want.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s say you&amp;#x27;re creating a new picture from nothing in Photoshop. You will have to build up your image layer by layer, piece by piece, command by command. Generative AI does the same in one stroke.&lt;p&gt;Something similar holds for your comment: you had to navigate your browser (or app) to the comment section of this article, enter your comment, and click &amp;quot;add comment&amp;quot;. With an AI system with good usability you could presumably enter &amp;quot;write the following comment under this article on HN: ...&amp;quot;, and have your comment be posted.&lt;p&gt;The difference lies on the axis of &amp;quot;power of individual commands&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years?</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-paradigm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wbobeirne</author><text>&amp;gt; With this new UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, the user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished.&lt;p&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like a whole new paradigm, we already do that. When I hit the &amp;quot;add comment&amp;quot; button below, I&amp;#x27;m not specifically instructing the web server how I want my comment inserted into a database (if it even is a database at all.) This is just another abstraction on top of an already very tall layer of abstractions. Whether it&amp;#x27;s AI under the hood, or a million monkeys with a million typewriters, it doesn&amp;#x27;t change my interaction at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>If I had a spectrum of purely imperative on one side and purely declarative on the other, these new AIs are much closer to the latter than anything that has come before them.&lt;p&gt;SQL errors if you don’t write in very specific language. These new AIs will accept anything and give it their best shot.</text></comment>