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> This is one reason I think the future of LLMs is to move from prompt boxes to GUIs and buttons - I think ‘prompt engineering’ and natural language’ are mutual

> This is one reason I think the future of LLMs is to move from prompt boxes to GUIs and buttons - I think ‘prompt engineering’ and natural language’ are mutually contradictory. Yes. Just like search. But that didn't mean that search was replaced by a bunch of radio buttons and click boxes. On the contrary, we learned how to use freeform search. And we will do the same for LLMs. What I'm seeing is that the systems are most powerful when driven through and conversational interface. They are strong translation systems. They can ask questions and incorporate the answers into their outputs. The way to use them is only clear to a few people who are deep in the experimentation process now, but it will become common knowledge and their outputs will improve to the point that what we are doing with them now will seem primitive.

sanderjd 3y ago
I'm excited to "why not both?" this. I'm excited for "UIs with buttons and boxes" enhanced by a conversational interface. Just to illustrate by way of one example I've had bouncing around in my head: imagine a zotero-like interface for accumulating tagged information, where it's both built from pulling out information from conversations and can be explored conversationally. I want to click a button that says "show me all the information I've accumulated about LLMs (or whatever)", which includes both links and conversations I've had about it, and I also want to be able to say that same thing to the conversational interface. In truth, I think we already have examples of this paradigm, in the various "copilot" interfaces, where you can do both things.