Welcoming a New AI Era: Let Computers Understand You, Instead of Learning How to Use Computers

Welcoming a new AI era The future is an era in which computers understand you—your intentions—instead of your having to spend considerable time and effort learning how to use them. In this new era, the form of human–computer interaction should undergo major reinvention and innovation, making everything more natural, simpler, more intuitive, and more convenient. AI should serve not just a small group, such as software engineers and AI scientists, but a much wider public. As the barriers to using it fall sharply, you should no longer need to memorize or learn a collection of prompts. You should be able to converse with AI naturally, and it should understand you. We can expect more innovation, broader use cases, more powerful and convenient features, and the creation of more commercial value. When mainframes gave way to personal computers, code gave way to graphical interfaces, typing gave way to touch and voice input, the internet spread from the military to civilian use, and smart handheld devices appeared that even three-year-olds could use, each innovation and transformation contained entirely new and enormous business opportunities. Facing this entirely new future ahead, we need to perceive, experience, and imagine it.