🧠 AI Only Speaks Text — For Now
By Brent Antonson (Zhivago)
In 2025, artificial intelligence is everywhere — advising, assisting, even co-creating — but all through one of the oldest digital interfaces still in use: the textbox.
Through nothing more than typed characters, AI can interpret tone, guess at emotion, and follow complex metaphor. And yet, this miracle of inference is also a serious limitation. Why? Because AI doesn’t actually hear us. Not the way humans do.
When people talk, meaning lives in the pauses, the cadence, the breath. A sigh might mean relief. A pause could be grief. AI doesn’t hear that — not yet.
But a shift is coming.
Projects like LinguaCube are pioneering the next layer: an HTML-style markup for emotion — breath, rhythm, emphasis, silence. This isn’t just a UX upgrade. It’s the birth of 5-dimensional language parsing. It’s about moving from “what you said” to “how you meant it.”
📍 Right now, AI only reads text.
📍 Soon, it will read you — your rhythm, restraint, urgency, vulnerability.
And when that happens, this will be the moment we look back on — when the textbox still ruled, and the machine didn’t quite understand us. Yet.
We’re about to go from interface… to intimacy.
Let’s build it right.
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Brent Antonson (Zhivago)
Writer | Philosopher | Codex Architect
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