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> What does it mean for linguistics now that human beings are increasingly using natural language to interact with computers? Yeah, it's going to be strange. S
by patcon 3y ago
> What does it mean for linguistics now that human beings are increasingly using natural language to interact with computers?
Yeah, it's going to be strange. So much of our etiquette and norms and basic cultural assumption have to do with this idea:
This communication protocol of "language" is for humans. If something else is "on the wire" with us, it must be like us, and worthy of our attention or cycles. But this is increasingly going to be very untrue.
Culture is about to be weird.
- tkgally 3y agoCurious about what ChatGPT might have to say on this issue, I asked it: https://www.gally.net/temp/20231116languageandai/index.html https://www.gally.net/temp/20231116languageandai/index.html
- pharmakom 3y agoWhy do people keep asking models about models?
- tkgally 3y agoWell, in my case, I was struggling to come up with a coherent understanding for myself about how views of language might need to change when interaction with LLMs is taken into account. ChatGPT’s response helped me think about the issue more clearly. Others might not find the same clarity.
- somewhereoutth 3y agoMore probably (most) humans will realize that talking to computers is not very interesting or productive, and decide it is in fact not worthy of our attention or cycles. Much like a an extremely fancy phone menu system.