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The fundamental idea of this paper is for ChatGPT-like apps to lose natural language for less energy consumption and more determinism in their answers based on controlled natural languages like ACE; for the user to be able to modify this trade-off-ratio at will based on LLMs (which is not possible when starting from a ChatGPT-like app); and to capture this new paradigm in a new type of browser that has natural language as its primary interface, here called a semantic web-first browser.

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 2 months ago

interesting idea. there are already text-based browsers like qutebrowser but they require mastering a command language. creating a natural language interface based on a constrained language is bound to come with the same sort of problem apple had with hypercard: easy to read, diabolic to write. i wonder how they solve for that.

[-] blue_berry@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

there are already text-based browsers like qutebrowser

hypercard

Awesome! Thanks for the references, didn't know there were already some applications in this direction

[-] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 2 months ago

there is a rich history of programming languages which are supposed to read like natural language. it gave us beauties like COBOL, SQL, and HyperCard. in other words, it's not good.

as for text browsers, nyxt is probably the one that's closest, or some browser mode in emacs.

ultimately what you want with navigation is precision and minimal typing, so a natural language interface is slow, and an ACE interface would be even slower.

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