Re:GPT-5
by rtp4me on Thursday August 07, 2025 @03:24PM
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Honestly, I would love for the keyboard input style to go away completely. It is such an unnatural way to interact with a computing device compared to other things we operate in the world. Misspellings, backspacing, cramped keys, different layout styles depending on your origin, etc make it a very poor input device - not to mention people with motor function difficulties. Sadly, I think it is here to stay around for a while until we get to a different computing paradigm.
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Re:GPT-5
by nancyminusone on Thursday August 07, 2025 @03:43PM
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I hope not. I make many more verbal mistakes than typed ones, and my throat dries and becomes sore quickly. I prefer my environment to be as quiet as possible. Voice control is also terrible for anything requiring fine temporal resolution.
> make it a very poor input device
Wow, I've always felt the keyboard is the pinnacle of input devices. Everything else feels like a toy in comparison.
Buttons are accurate (1:1) input. Will never go away
The only thing better than a keyboard is direct neural interface, and we aren't there yet.
That aside, keyboard is an excellent input device for humans specifically because it is very much designed around the strengths of our biology - those dextrous fingers.
Re:GPT-5
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:47AM
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I play as a wizard character in an online game. If I had to actually speak all those spells, in quick succession, for hours at a time ...