alt Hacker News> This isn’t necessary fancy, just let me set some calendar events without knowing the magic words or tell it to open Overcast and play the new Gastropod episode. Better yet, for power users, let me set up reusable shortcuts using natural language.
Isn’t this the proverbial ”faster horse”? Ie let me do exactly what I can do now, in a very slightly different, possibly very slightly more convenient way?
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A car is still a faster horse in the sense that you decide where to go with it. It doesn’t outsource decisions to somewhere else.
(Arguably the car affords you better control than an unruly horse. Self-driving cars are moving us closer to the horse again. ;))
No, it's asking for my two-legged horse to have four legs
Nothing wrong with a faster horse when AI isn't reliable enough yet to produce the car. Don't leave me with my aging horse while you cross your fingers that something better might come along someday.
The whole point of AI is that if something different happens, it's not you doing it.
If the user asks for a faster horse and you sell them a car, you win.
If the user asks for a faster horse and you sell them a trebuchet, you lose, no matter how fast the trebuchet would technically get them to their destination.