Maybe it's because I don't see AI as a new thing in a material sense, because if you distill it down and it's just another algorithm... but I think eventually we're realize what we're actually using it for already... an interface to other algorithms.

We see it in agents and chatbots now, things like MCP, where natural language calls upon external API's in tools which then have their own algorithm or process.

This ability to chain functions from disparate sources makes it a new interface type for applications that are just a representation of many functions.

There's a lot of things we think of in terms of UI now that will probably just become MCP-adjacent tools in a language interface vs. a visual one, image gen vs. Photoshop for example. It's already consolidating time away from the browser (RIP keyword searches and stackoverflow), and voice based bots can obviate screens altogether in many cases.

We're probably less than a generation away from kids not knowing wtf a keyboard and mouse is. A pocket projector that can leverage your eye/hand/body movements, or glasses, will change how much we think about interfacing as the iphone did.