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For common non-tech folk, this is how computers always worked. You tell these machines to do things for you, and they do. Why are you gasping at the image/text/
by smusamashah 2y ago
For common non-tech folk, this is how computers always worked. You tell these machines to do things for you, and they do. Why are you gasping at the image/text/audio it just made.
- Suppafly 2y ago>For common non-tech folk, this is how computers always worked. That's one thing that a lot of us tech seem to forget, the way we interact with technology is completely different from how most of the population does. It's not just a matter of a few degrees of difference, we operate in entirely different manners.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoThere is a further step with LLMs that seems to blow up peoples mental models. The combo of probabilistic outputs + randomish decoding, 'knowledge' being in parameters + context, generation one token at a time... it's just so freaking weird.
- Suppafly 2y agoPlus it doesn't help that the only way regular end users are able to interact with them is through a chat interface that abstracts away the information being used to prompt a response.