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"You’ll also soon be able to test multimodal Meta AI on our Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses."

Now this is interesting. I've been thinking for some time now that traditional computer/smartphone interfaces are on the way out for all but a few niche applications.

Instead, everyone will have their own AI assistant, which you'll interact with naturally the same way as you interact with other people. Need something visual? Just ask for the latest stock graph for MSFT for example.

We'll still need traditional interfaces for some things like programming, industrial control systems etc...

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GUIs have an inherent advantage here: discoverability. If you think about it, conversational UIs, even turbo-charged by AI, are not that different from Command Line Interfaces. You need to have an idea that you want something. You lose the serendipity inherent to visual interfaces. We should never underestimate the power of the human visual cortex.

Interaction with an expert is extremely discoverable, and eliminates the need for many traditional interfaces anyway. Think about trying to book a holiday online and navigating all the interfaces for flights, accomodation, tours, etc. Versus going to see a travel agent, where you can loosely describe what you want and walk out with exactly what you need having interacted with zero graphical interfaces.

There are a dozen different services to get the last X days of MSFT stock price. If you’re interested in stocks, you probably have a favorite already. Why would someone need an AI assistant for this?

I already have multimodal on my RB Meta Smart glasses as part of the early access. It's Hit or Miss - sometimes it works really really well,sometimes it doesn't.

Didn't Humane try this?

there are probably early, rough around the edges versions of this already that aren't good enough to go mainstream.

A few things might need to happen before that, like shinking the resolution of Quest 3 down into form factor like regular glasses, so you could wear them in public without looking weird.

It'll be a bit like Smartphones. The first "handheld computers"/smartphones were not that great, then along came the iPhone.

I'm looking forward to seeing people "ghost type" on the train while typing out their messages to their assistant.

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