Comment by kelseydh
Comment by kelseydh 4 days ago
It annoys me a lot that the current devices for controlling smart homes, such as Amazon Alexa or Google Home, lack the ability for lovely conversations the way OpenAI has.
Comment by kelseydh 4 days ago
It annoys me a lot that the current devices for controlling smart homes, such as Amazon Alexa or Google Home, lack the ability for lovely conversations the way OpenAI has.
I honestly can't tell if this comment is joking, serious, or AI lol
LLMs have a lot of advantages over humans for making conversation.
Even forgetting the main advantages (24x7 availability, and ability to talk about basically any topic for as much or little time as you want), they also get basically every obscure reference/analogy/metaphor and how it ties in to the topic at hand.
Usually when you're talking to another person, the intersection of obscure references you can confidently make (with the assumption your partner will understand them) is much more limited. I enjoy making those random connections so it's a real luxury to have a conversation partner that gets them all.
Another one is simply the time and attention they can bring to things a normal person would never have the time for. I'd not want to talk someone's ear off, unless I was paying them and even then, I don't want to subject someone to topics of only interest to myself.
(Edit: I suppose it's the final apotheosis of the atomised individual leaving all traces of community behind)
> final apotheosis of the atomised individual leaving all traces of community behind
It's not. In 10 years this is going to look as dumb as the biohacker wetware bros surgically embedding RFID chips in their hands. There's much more to communication (and life) than receiving pantomimed validation for your obscure references. You could be throwing away opportunities to connect with another person who would genuinely share your interests and help you grow as a person. Having a useless magnet in your fingertip is going to seem brilliant compared to ending up socially withdrawn and mentally unwell because you traded human companionship for a chat bot.
I think it's a much bigger social phenomenon already. Social talk will become even more a matter of performance, positioning and signalling, rather than something pursued for enjoyment of the thing itself.
Maybe I'm just weird but LLM conversations seem generally more interesting and enlightening, even in these early iterations of the technology.
> LLMs have a lot of advantages over humans for making conversation.
A lot of those advantages seem to be what enables an LLM to keep pushing people into delusion or triggering latent mental issues : https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/urban-survival/20250...
The way the Gemini Google Assistant rollout has been SO SLOW is utterly baffling to me.