Re:Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT
by tsunamifury on Saturday May 20, 2023 @01:28PM
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Disagree here. As a control system it may become less skeuomorphic sure, as a content generation system it will obviously become MORE skeuomorphic.
This isn’t (entirely) UI, not the same evolutionary pathway ahead. This is real a reasoning system which can explain its reasoning with human language, and I’m guessing that will stay beneficial.
I don't see the human like content it creates as skeuomorphic, that's in tended design. It's just the conversation way we control it that is, and that I think will be toned down.
The skeuomorphic visual design, largely abandoned now, was to teach people that the apps served the same function and emotional connection as what they replaced, not really to teach touch gestures.
Skeuomorphism is useful early in a new technology paradigm to help users understand it by referring to something they already know. Here it's being used to help train the user in how to converse with it. However I think as these tools be more more widely used and understood I think we will see the language change to be more concise, unless they are instructed to be more "human like".
It's a bit like with touch screens, the skeuomorphic design helped train people to use touch gestures. For example a note app with a spiral binding graphic helps to suggest to the user they can turn a page by swiping, a gesture from the physical world.
We are just in the skeuomorphic phase of AI tools.