AI Sez

What. EXACTLY. Does AI Say?

Though I DID NOT USE ChatGPT's version below on my landing page; I do plan to explore this topic further in future content........, So out of curiosity, and an attempt to try to avoid TL;DR - I asked it  to RE-WRITE in - "plain English" - an EARLIER version of the FIRST 2 paragraphs of LCFGU's landing page. What it gave me is below. 

My original paragraphs for the landing page:

The term UX or User EXperience is derived from the academic field HCI, aka Human Computer Interaction. It is an ever evolving, multi-disciplinary field that began to take shape in World Wars I and II. Each conflict presented a need to make certain aspects of complicated subjects like encryption, or hardware and software configurations and installations, quick and easy to do. The same sentiment also applied to use of a computer. Years later, desktop PC manufacturers would echo similar concerns when they released their first desktop PCs in the 1980's. They were concerned that their market MIGHT become restricted to the highly skilled or educated. In other words, a personal computer, should not require advanced coding or configuration skills for normal day-to-day use. 

This is the WHEN and the WHY of how HCI, later shortened to the acronym UX, begins to enter the academic, business, and consumer space. An awareness that it could become a part of how to create User Interfaces or GUI's that would appeal to a larger market. The academic and non academic focus begins to shift to an expanded notion of who the intended user is. The explosive increase in PC sales throughout the mid to late 1980's would further clarify that discretionary use, or the initial user experience, was equally as important, as skilled use by professionals. Previous human factors efforts focused solely on the latter. One of the earliest associations or combinations of HCI with Human Factors and Computer Science took place at the University of Maryland in 1983. In collaboration with IBM; one of the first HCIL - Human Computer Interaction Labs was formed. One of the first HCI graduate degree programs followed a year later, in Loughborough, England.

ChatGPT's Re-written version:

User Experience—often shortened to UX—comes from a field of study called Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This area of research began during World War I and World War II, when people needed to make complex jobs—like using secret codes or setting up equipment—quick and easy. Years later, in the 1980s, computer makers had the same challenge: they didn’t want home computers to be only for experts. They wanted regular people to use them without needing to know complicated computer code or setups.

As more people bought PCs in the mid to late 1980s, companies realized that a person’s first impression of using a computer was just as important as how skilled professionals used them. This led to creating user interfaces—the screens and buttons people click—that were simple and inviting. In 1983, the University of Maryland teamed up with IBM to start one of the first Human-Computer Interaction Labs, and in 1984, one of the earliest college programs for HCI was launched in England. 

Wow. Must admit. That's PRETTY GOOD!