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You're making my point for me. Natural language is rife with ambiguities, contextual information, and implicit assumptions. It is a terrible method for precise
by mattkrause 10y ago
You're making my point for me.
Natural language is rife with ambiguities, contextual information, and implicit assumptions. It is a terrible method for precisely conveying instructions or expectations, even to equally intelligent peers. Making this work at all requires a whole specialised profession with its own elaborate procedures and complicated argot.
If you wandered into an IBM office and said, "I need a document storage system. Here's a blank check; make it happen!", do you think you would be happy with the outcome? Probably not. What changes when you tell this to a chatbot instead of a guy in a suit? Instead, you'd work with someone lawyer/programmer who knows how to spec out the solution in enough detail that the vendor/optimizer can't go "well, you said STORE the documents, but you never said anything about RETRIEVING them later!"