This and the new device that OpenAI is working on is more of a general strategy to make a bigger moat by having more of an ecosystem so that people will keep their subscriptions and also get pro.

>Sorry, I can't do that.

'Modern' Z-Machine games (v5 version compared to the original v3 one from Infocom) will allow you to do that and far more. By 'modern' I meant from the early 90's and up. Even more with v8 games.

>This was also why people hated operating systems like MS-DOS, and why even all the Linux users reading this right now are doing so in a graphical user interface.

The original v3 Z Machine parser (raw one) was pretty much limited compared to the v5 one. Even more with against the games made with Inform6 and the Inform6 English library targetting the v5 version.

Go try yourself. Original Zork from MIT (Dungeon) converted into a v5 ZMachine game:

https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-...

Spot the differences. For instance, you could both say 'take the rock' and, later, say 'drop it'.

   >take mat
   Taken.
 
   >drop it
   Dropped.
 
   >take the mat
   Taken.
 
   >drop mat
   Dropped.
 
   >open mailbox
   You open the mailbox, revealing a small leaflet.
 
   >take leaftlet
   You can't see any such thing.
 
   >take leaflet
   Taken.
 
  >drop it
   Dropped.

Now, v5 games are from late 80's/early 90's. There's Curses, Jigsaw, Spider and Web ... v8 games are like Anchorhead, pretty advanced for its time:

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=op0uw1gn1tjqmjt7

You can either download the Z8 file and play it with Frotz (Linux/BSD), WinFrotz, or Lectrote under Android and anything else. Also, online with the web interpreter.

Now, the 'excuses' about the terseness of the original Z3 parser are now nearly void; because with Puny Inform a lot of Z3 targetting games (for 8086 DOS PC's, C64's, Spectrums, MSX'...) have a slightly improved parser against the original Zork game.

Same author's impact on web preservation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44064230

Speaking of anti-web:

https://i.postimg.cc/br7F8NLd/chat-GPT.png

I wonder when webmasters will take theirs gloves off and just start feeding AI crawlers with porn and gore.

I tested Google Search, Google Gemini and Claude with "Taylor Swift showgirl". Gemini and Claude gave me a description plus some links. Both were organized better than the Google search page. If I didn't like the description that Claude or Google gave me I could click on the Wikipedia link. Claude gave me a link to Spotify to listen while Gemini gave me a link to YouTube to watch and lisen.

The complaint about the OpenAI browser seems to be it didn't show any links. I agree, that is a big problem. If you are just getting error prone AI output then it's pretty worthless.

> There were a tiny handful of incredible nerds who thought this was fun, mostly because 3D graphics and the physical touch of another human being hadn't been invented yet.

:skull:

The thing about command lines is off base, but overall the article is right that the ickiness of this thing is exceeded only by its evil.

Atlas confuses me. Firefox already puts Claude or ChatGPT in my sidebar and has integrations so I can have it analyze or summarize content or help me with something on the page. Atlas looks like yet another Chromium fork that should have been a browser extension, not a revolutionary product that will secure OpenAI's market dominance.

I think Atlas sounds and acts pretty terrible, but the Dia browser has been a pretty nice experience for me. You still have access to the web, favorite links in the sidebar, etc.; and the option (when you want or need) to "chat" with the current website you are on using an LLM.

It's bad news if one company owns the search bar.

Just like it's bad news if one company owns the roads or the telecom infrastructure.

Governments need to prepare some strong regulation here.

(Of course this is still true if it's not strictly a monopoly)