If all you want is a way to talk to ChatGPT, you have virtually no choice – there are countless ways to talk to bots, and seemingly countless fresh ones every day. But that’s not the whole story of interacting with enormous language models. It better not be so.
Thomas Paul Mann, CEO and co-founder of the app Raycasthas a much broader vision of what an AI application can do. Raycast is many things: it’s an application launcher, a way to search for and interact with files on your computer, a note-taking app, and yes, it’s another way to talk to ChatGPT and other LLMs. However, because Raycast has so much access to your data and device, it can operate these AI models to actually act on your behalf. Agentic AI, baby! Only this time with even more potential – for better or for worse.
All this integration and access obviously raises huge questions. It’s one thing for a chatbot to make mistakes in text chat; it’s quite another to unleash a hallucinatory, imperfect tool on your computer. AI agents basically don’t work, so why should they be more reliable if they work on local files rather than the entire Internet? And even if this all works in the end, how do we operate it? Mann has some answers and some questions of his own.
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