[msoad]

Honestly the way the models are improving I don’t see a ton of “product” work needed anymore. Any UI is worse than a good AI assistant that I can chat/talk to. Why do I need your forms and data rendering if the AI assistant is smart enough to figure it out on its own?

I am a lot more pessimistic about the startup scene in this area.

Look how ChatGPT can teach languages[1], good luck building an AI powered language learning app…

It gets worse for startups because Google and OpenAI have a ton more context about me. For example in the language learning conversation Google can refer to my spoken samples from other places to improve the experience. And yet, no PM at Google needs to think of this, they only need to hook up the data and throw more compute at their models.

[1] https://twitter.com/dmvaldman/status/1707881743892746381

[jclulow]

> Any UI is worse than a good AI assistant that I can chat/talk to

Speak for yourself. I have zero interest in having a conversation with the computer, whether typing or (especially) speaking out loud.

Product and UI and UX work will continue to be valuable; if anything, good quality work will stand out even more amongst the oncoming tidal wave of low quality AI/LLM stuff.

[sensanaty]

> Any UI is worse than a good AI assistant that I can chat/talk to.

Good lord no. Never. Not in a trillion years will I be okay with interacting with these data hoovering blackboxes rather than just fucking clicking on the button with my mouse.

[aurareturn]

Hence why Bill Gates said the biggest winner in AI will be the first company who can build a true AI assistant.

I thought the same and agreed with him.

Everything we do now is just working towards that super assistant.

I think in the future, your "phone" is just an interface between you and your assistant. Not much else. As an Apple shareholder, this is my biggest worry. iOS is suddenly a lot less necessary.