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I've had ideas for how to improve all the different chatbots for like 3 years, nobodys has implemented any of them (usually my ideas get implemented in software somehow the devs read my mind, but AI seems to be stuck with the same UI for LLMs), none of these AI shops are ran by people with vision it feels like. Everyone's just remaking a slightly better version of SmarterChild.

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I really want a UI that visualises branching. I would like to branch out of specific parts of the responses and continue the conversation there but also keep the original conversation. This seems to be a very standard feature but no one has developed it.

Would require something like snapshotting context windows, but I agree, something like this would be nice.

Did you open-source / publish these ideas?

I'm not giving any of these people my ideas for free. Though I did think of making my own UI for some of these services at some point.

arxiv/github or it did not happen

Oh man, I hadn’t thought of SmarterChild in dog’s years! It was an early AIM chatbot, and felt like magic at the time. Looking back it feels like there’s a clear through-line from it (and the rest of ActiveBuddy’s menagerie) to the ChatGPTs of the world today…

For today’s lucky 10,000, here’s a Vice retrospective from 2016:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-history-of-smarterchild/

https://smarterchild.chat/

i agree - it shows a remarkable lack of creativity that we're still stuck with a fairly subpar UX for interacting with these tools

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