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What Is Intent-based Computing?

Jason Yuan says Mercury OS was his 2018 attempt, from a non-technical point of view, to articulate what people now call generative UI.

Before he was a designer at Apple, he believed the future of computers could not be a person sitting and clicking on apps. Context and so-called AI were already available. He was learning about GAN and Neuron, and he expected computers would one day connect the dots across personal data and act. Mercury OS tried to create very elemental, highly contextual forms and to strip away years of software baggage. Old apps and concepts were only a means to an end, and Mercury tried to present the end itself. The name for the approach was intent-based computing: the computer should supply what a person needs to accomplish an intent.

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