New Interfaces: How Are Interfaces and Mediums Changing

The study is devoted to the humans and artificial intelligence (AI) interaction. The authors view this interaction as mediated by interfaces that both simplify it and hide the real mechanisms of encoding and decoding messages (according to Shannon). In such a situation, the characteristics of the actor of communication are blurred, and it is not the actor himself who appears as such, but his instru­ment, and the message is not a decoded signal. However, taking a closer look at nowadays practices of interaction with AI, an invariance becomes noticeable, placing human interaction with AI in the general range of different types of pur­poseful (human) activities. The authors, having identified this invariance (gen­eral), offer their view of what is special, the specificity that is characteristic of “digital” interaction. According to the authors, modern intelligent tools make it possible to offer an “intermediate user” (a person included in the process at the stage of goal achievement). A goal formed in such a way that “on this side of the interface” it looks like it was set by AI. The authors consider the applied aspects of the situation and draw several quite interesting conclusions.