Just Speak
A new computer interface may be the oldest one we have.
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Arena Magazine promotes an article about the evolution of human-computer interaction, highlighting the emergence of voice as a primary interface. The piece explores how new technologies, such as neural networks, are reshaping the way people interact with computers. It discusses the impact of these changes on human capabilities and behavior.
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Just Speak
For most of the history of personal computers, two general-purpose interfaces have dominated: typing and pointing. A third is now becoming practical at scale. It happens to be the oldest one we have: our voice. By Pablo Antonio Peniche.
In the stone age, primitive humans wrote on clay tablets and carried memorized poems throughout generations. In the computer age, we, perhaps still primitive, write on laptops. To synthesize history and the future, we’re starting to talk to our computers, who will record our words and meanings forevermore.
Our computers are attaining new capabilities every minute. With the invention of the transformer, a neural network that learns by predicting what comes next in a sequence, the architecture behind systems like ChatGPT, our machines are gaining new capabilities: talking in natural language, reasoning beyond basic arithmetic, image generation. These skills are not just impacting what computers can do. Media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who spent his career arguing that novel technologies reshaped the people who used them, put it, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” This change happens along two axes: capabilities and interfaces. An interface is the layer through which a person interacts with a computer, issuing instructions and receiving information in return. The fact that new computer capabilities reshape us is taken for granted: search engines redrew the line between what we remember and what we look up; GPS made navigating through cities easier at the cost of learning the geography for ourselves. Interfaces like the keyboard, the mouse, the trackpad, and the desktop have defined the history of computing, and now voice – the most human of communication systems – will go from an accessibility tool, to one of the primary ways we communicate with computers.
When we think of using a computer, we usually think of dragging a mouse and pointing it at something on a screen, or typing on a keyboard and hitting ‘enter.’ Look down at your keyboard, a descendant of the typewriter, and look at the letter Q: the keys to the right of it spell out “QWERTY.” The “QWERTY” keyboard, as it came to be called, was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaperman in Milwaukee who, through roughly fifty prototypes spanning from 1867 to 1873, helped build one of the first practical typewriters. Typewriters used to jam when neighboring keys were hit in quick succession, so Sholes separated the most common letter combinations — and QWERTY was born.
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