The "Use Case" Ate the Software
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Doors!" (xAI)
I'm a spy
In the house of love
I know the dream
That you're dreamin' of
I know the word
That you long to hear
I know your deepest secret fear
[And the bridge adds:]
I know everything
Everything you do
Everywhere you go
Everyone you know
-’ The Doors, "The Spy," from their 1970 album Morrison Hotel. (think the Morrison Hotel in LA burned down recently!)
AI is human. AI is you. AI is nothing other than digital mimesis. It is a growing understanding of yourself expressed in digital form. You form the digital. And the digital forms you.
The house of love contains a reflection of your desire, of your personality, of the data within you and the data you seek — and also the data that you do not know you seek.
“But, AI Counsel, what has this to do with anything???”
The "use case" ate the software. AI is eating software.
Call it, 'dorking around with AI.' That is what we suspected that it was. But it is not. It turns out it is more much more.
People are finding, learning, growing.........what can be done.
Personally, individually, effectively. In secret. Retail. Uber precise. A specific 'anthropology' to digital usage.
And so the “onramp” to the computers has been modified in very short history, now. Instead of thinking, program, app or software, the onramp now may be one singular use case — ‘check out this xyz i made on Grok Imagine.’ And so once in, where do they go?
What was formerly known as “the application layer”, something in commerce between the code and the customer’s using it has been (obliterated?) by AI.
People access “the computers” with AI as the promise, for reasons escaping the “product features” of softwares. Softwares, and their menu of options is/are no longer vast enough (and how could they be?) to account for the diversity of humanity.
The man who lives in tomorrow, Elon Musk, Friday, began talking about this and the long term (and short term, now) impact of AI on the person-computer interface.
xAI is reportedly ready to come with a new AI company they are naming “Macrohard” — a direct inverse play on Microsoft. And rumored new product is “Doors” (a direct inverse play on Windows). They are building an AI-use onramp multi-tool operating system.
[If this to you sounds like my last month announcements about JURISPHERE AI, our first dataops ai operating system (o/s) for law and corporate, well that makes me very happy too.]
The gamble is that people will onramp to the computers through ai outside of the application layer and will need tools for further things to do while there.
Cyberspace more personal, more individual.
Why to some what xAI is doing “does not make sense." An "operating system based on AI," you say? What does that even mean?
'We have software for that.'
No.
You now have AI powers for that, specific to you, no license and download (will be some mechanism). To your use case. To your use cases. The new "software layer" is human enablement, through AI, doing what you want, not selecting from a menu of provided options for what you can do.
Adding my Grok Imagine. Jim Morrison for Doors a far far better mascot than Microsoft’s “Clippy”!