Ask HN: Will GPT cause a TUI renaissance?

by patientzero on 2/12/2024, 6:47:41 PM with 7 comments
Looking at Chat-GPT and its clones, they do support some forms of markup, but they seem to make it all the more apparent that GUI advice is much harder to communicate or utilize than text.. Further many of the problems of using text, for example discoverability, are alleviated by such assistance. So is this going to swing the pendulum back, or is there another direction it will take?

  • by muzani on 2/15/2024, 6:14:15 AM

    I doubt it. OpenAI is eagerly working on voice and image. They want it to be AGI, basically you'd communicate to it exactly like you would with a human.

    I've been mostly just sending it screenshots and photos lately - it's able to handle that faster than text.

    Instead of asking it to check your PR, screenshot the PR diff. Instead of giving it logs, screenshot the error message and the log - it's able to understand better with the color coded logs apparently. If you want it to do hackerrank, well, you can't copy paste from there during an interview, but you can take photos with your phone.

  • by pr07ecH70r on 2/13/2024, 9:56:27 AM

    I thought you are referening to the TUI travel agency. :D

    As for the GUI, Stable diffusion as far as I know, may reach this point, but not at the moment.

  • by vpjosh on 2/14/2024, 12:43:51 PM

    I assume you mean text UI interface.

    In other circles, TUI was known as this one:

    https://tangible.media.mit.edu/

  • by rrr_oh_man on 2/13/2024, 7:54:54 AM

    GUI, TUI, what?