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Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/
33•devhouse•1h ago

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AbuAssar•48m ago
so Google will be monitoring whatever on the screen continuously or only when the user say the magic words (this, that, here, there)?
EdgeExplorer•23m ago
Indeed. "AI-enabled pointer" is misdirection. This isn't an AI-enabled pointer; it's sending screen to AI, which yes, includes pointer position. The AI doesn't live in the pointer. The AI lives, apparently, so thoroughly in the system that it can see and do anything, and the pointer is just a way of giving it context.
OtomotO•10m ago
Google Recall. Hey, it's all about the marketing.
strgrd•44m ago
No thanks
loaderchips•43m ago
It's beautiful how the human mind can take something very obvious but overlooked and make it into this fantastic innovation. Fab stuff.
SirFatty•40m ago
It only took Google and their AI offering to come up with Graffiti.
themafia•37m ago
> We’ve been exploring new AI-powered capabilities to help the pointer not only understand what it’s pointing at, but also why it matters to the user.

We couldn't quite track you well enough before. So we're fixing that under the guise of "AI powered capabilities."

iridione•28m ago
Interesting! I wonder how UI will evolve in the long-term? If there are browser-use/computer-use and clicky-clones automating pointer actions, do we really need complex UI anymore? If yes, when?
Ancapistani•6m ago
I've been playing with writing a visionOS app that allows an AI agent to be aware of what you're looking at at any given time.

At some point I fully expect eye tracking (or attention tracking) to be common enough to be a first-class input method.

mvdtnz•27m ago
Both of the text based demos would have been simpler and faster with traditional mouse and keyboard interactions. What is the AI adding?
slopinthebag•22m ago
It feels like everything modern is like this. No value added, just the appearance of it.
hyperhello•9m ago
They’re going to take your abilities to do anything and spread it across many places so you have to run around to do them, same as all the moneyed technology.
mcookly•20m ago
I wonder what sort of monstrous power would be unleashed if Google used Plan9 as a foundation.
tintor•18m ago
Of course, it isn't a Google Demo, if you can't use it to book a table at restaurant. (shown at the bottom of the page)
LocalH•13m ago
do not want
jaccola•13m ago
This seems like one of those things that is usable infrequently enough to be forgotten/poorly developed/never used. (Even before accounting for the actual failure rate of the LLM which will be none-zero).

Perhaps a text box and file upload isn’t the perfect interface for every use case but it is versatile which is a huge barrier to overcome.

jinkuan•12m ago
being able to make precise edits would be huge for AI
OtomotO•10m ago
Like a dream come true...

Nightmares are dreams as well and this is a nightmare like Windows Recall.

Technically wonderful though.

nolist_policy•8m ago
Wiggle at CAPTCHAs, wiggle at Termux, wiggle at Emacs, wiggle at the Godot Editor, wiggle at my remote desktop.

(Not going to happen)

jpatten•7m ago
Reminds me of Put That There https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo
kjellsbells•5m ago
I sense a privacy problem brewing.

It reminds me of Microsoft Recall in the sense that some portion of the screen is going to be continuously transmitted outside of the users control.

What happens when someone browses something very private (planning a surprise engagement. looking at medical data. planning a protest)? All that data gets slurped to google and subject to a warrant or discovery or building your advertising fingerprint.

Maybe the idea is that the data is sent to AI only when you right click, but that seems like a very thin firewall that a product manager will breach in the interests of delivering "predictive AI" via some kind of precomputed results.

simondw•4m ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but what is new about the pointer itself? Seems to be functionally the same as selecting + tooltips / context menus.
SirMaster•4m ago
Thanks, I hate it

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