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GPT-4 is a good time to talk about metaphor design gdocs just got pageless mode last year, letting you let go of that often-now-irrelevant physical metaphor lots of AI stuff will start in the same metaphors: "AI therapist", "AI teacher". won't stay there
a therapist meets with you in 1-2h sessions, every week or two. obviously AI bots can be with you 24/7, and they will be... but "therapist" isn't necessarily a good metaphor for that! "magic healing journal" might be a better metaphor here
a teacher maybe has classes, maybe has tutoring sessions... has some of their own expertise maybe? but doesn't have the time to follow each step, or invent new metaphors and illustrations for each student young lady's illustrated primer might be a better metaphor here
the assistant metaphor is probably going to be fairly apt for AI, at least for awhile, in the sense of "you ask them to do something or research something, they do it" but here, interestingly, most people aren't USED to having an assistant, so it's a kind of novel experience
what else? this is just a start. anybody working on an AI-related anything would benefit from taking seriously that this is an opportunity not just to make "X but automated" but something entirely new (which may replace X without resembling it)
