Loosely AI interfaces are about intent and context.

Intent is the user’s goal, big or small, explicit or implicit.

Uniquely for computers, AI can understand intent and respond in a really human way. This is a new capability! Like the user can type I want to buy a camera or point at a keylight and subvocalise I’ve got a call in 20 minutes or hit a button labeled remove clouds and job done.

Companies care about this because computers that are closer to intent tend to win

… This is why I think the future of interfaces is Do What I Mean: it’s not just a new capability enabled by AI, there’s a whole attentional economics imperative to it. — Read More