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A Tour of Streaming Chat & Audio Interfaces

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Most chatbots stick to one modality—either text or voice. But as someone who uses subtitles for everything, I wonder why voice bots don’t also include text for accessibility. Is it a limitation in the voice tech stack? Does text clutter the UI? To find out, I decided to build my own streaming-first chatbot interface with both text and voice.

An E-Commerce Interface Menagerie

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Think chatbots replace all web UIs? Not so fast. Explore the strengths of buttons, forms & tables in e-commerce (Apple, Taylor Stitch examples) vs chatbots and see where each truly fits.

Breaking down Voyager

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NVIDIA’s Voyager agent showed impressive long-horizon planning in Minecraft. This post breaks down its six key components, GPT-4 powered action loop, and analyzes whether its parts are truly ‘agents’ or just ‘chains’.