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Why AI will eat the browser
In this week’s edition of my newsletter, CrazyStupidTech, I posted a reported essay on the future of browsers in the age of AI, with reflections on their past, and their role in our multi-device, machine-first, information-dense extended reality. My thinking was prompted by immersing myself in new devices (such as Vision Pro) and new technologies (ChatGPT. )
If the Vision Pro taught me anything, it’s that on a device designed for immersive experiences the Safari browser feels like an afterthought. In a world where AR, VR, and voice-controlled systems are becoming more integrated into daily life, the browser’s limitations become glaringly obvious. At this point, there is no way the Vision Pro is leaving my life, but I wouldn’t mind at all if my browser did.
For most of us, it’s hard to imagine life without an internet browser. But as AI disaggregates information from text, video, and music into unique remixable AI chatbot answer streams, it’s clear to me that over the next decade the browser will need to adapt or die.
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The very evident problems of chatbots ChatGPT care rooted not in current capacity but in history. A simple exploration (try https://works.bepress.com/mwigan/101/download/ -but do it before jan1st as Elsevier has committed to delete the entire Bpress system on 31-12-24. It was to useful to researchers and not being charged for, and a distraction from their corporate control model) this simple document examines three things
1 how the SPAN on formal publications varies( span is years between publication and most recent formal citation) ie historical impact duration
2 the relative historical effectiveness of refereed publications and deemed informal publications
3 the historical ineffectiveness of ChatGPT and media.ai
So as long as historical data/people/etc is of no importance then Gerds assertions have some foundation, but…….