AI's Biggest Flaw? The Blinking Cursor Problem

AI’s potential is immense, yet clunky user interfaces and a lack of discoverability are holding it back from seamless adoption. To unlock AI’s true power, we need interfaces that guide, adapt, and engage—moving beyond the blinking cursor to something more intuitive, proactive, and, ultimately, more human. Every day I find myself reflecting on the gap between the ever-growing capability of AI, and the somewhat modest impact it is having on our day-to-day life. Apple Intelligence was nothing short of a flop, and our in-home assistants (Alexa, Google Home) feel increasingly dumb. The gaps are also more subtle and exist on a human level too. Some people just seem to ‘get it’ and have developed an intuition for how and where to apply general-purpose AI tools (exemplified by ChatGPT). This is an intuition that is built through trial and error; in order to ‘get it’, you need to invest time in this technology, a trial-and-error process which takes time. Surely adopting technology shouldn’t ... Read full article.