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Humans have latency in their comms too, we just hide it effectively with filler language. I'm surprised we couldn't mask a half second of latency with a quick,

by Pfhreak 11y ago

Humans have latency in their comms too, we just hide it effectively with filler language. I'm surprised we couldn't mask a half second of latency with a quick, "Hmm.." or "Ah..." or even a bunch of canned responses. I know I've bought myself additional time with exactly those -- "That's a great question." "Interesting..."

jimktrains2 11y ago
"You know" ... frantically opens up firefox and goes to google ... "I was thinking about this the other night" ... skims the result fragments ... "it's interesting that there are a couple viable approaches to this problem" ... opens up multiple tabs and then wikipedia ... "We need to set some parameters on how we expect our solution to behave, i.e. really accurate, but slow to get, or slightly less accurate and really fast, or what point in between" ... begins skimming wikipedia ... "were you able to grant me access to the data, as specified in my original email 2 months ok?" ... frantically reads research abstracts ... "Oh? Still waiting on your data team." ... closes all the tabs I just opened ... "OK, we'll let's thinking about how accurate/fast/resource intensive we can afford and see if you can get me access. We'll talk next week." ... hangs up.
taneq 11y ago
Ever since I was a kid I've thought of "umm" and other such noises as disk drive thrashing noises. Loading something off an old 5.25" disk sounds a lot like the computer's saying "ummmmm um um um ummmmmm um here's your game!"
PascalsMugger 11y ago
If we an AI that was capable of carrying on human level conversation it's probably fall into the uncanny valley because of how fast it could respond with fully formed sentences, without all the filler and pausing that humans are used to and filter out as white noise. Unless it was programmed to add in unnecessary noise, of course.

4 ms·

Humans have latency in their comms too, we just hide it effectively with filler language. I'm surprised we couldn't mask a half second of latency with a quick,

by Pfhreak 11y ago

jimktrains2 11y ago
"You know" ... frantically opens up firefox and goes to google ... "I was thinking about this the other night" ... skims the result fragments ... "it's interesting that there are a couple viable approaches to this problem" ... opens up multiple tabs and then wikipedia ... "We need to set some parameters on how we expect our solution to behave, i.e. really accurate, but slow to get, or slightly less accurate and really fast, or what point in between" ... begins skimming wikipedia ... "were you able to grant me access to the data, as specified in my original email 2 months ok?" ... frantically reads research abstracts ... "Oh? Still waiting on your data team." ... closes all the tabs I just opened ... "OK, we'll let's thinking about how accurate/fast/resource intensive we can afford and see if you can get me access. We'll talk next week." ... hangs up.
taneq 11y ago
Ever since I was a kid I've thought of "umm" and other such noises as disk drive thrashing noises. Loading something off an old 5.25" disk sounds a lot like the computer's saying "ummmmm um um um ummmmmm um here's your game!"
PascalsMugger 11y ago
If we an AI that was capable of carrying on human level conversation it's probably fall into the uncanny valley because of how fast it could respond with fully formed sentences, without all the filler and pausing that humans are used to and filter out as white noise. Unless it was programmed to add in unnecessary noise, of course.