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> it is hilarious to want a conversational UI to understand something better than you. This is true. But what if you swap "conversational UI" with something ac
by discreteevent 2y ago
> it is hilarious to want a conversational UI to understand something better than you.
This is true. But what if you swap "conversational UI" with something actually intelligent like a developer. Then we see this kind of thing all the time: A user has tacit, unconscious knowledge of some domain. The developer keeps asking them questions in order to get a formal understanding of the domain. At the end the developer has a formal understanding and the user keeps their tacit understanding.
In theory we could do the same with an AI - If the AI was actually intelligent.
- throwaway290 2y agoYou described an interaction not between product owner and software engineer but between a user and product owner. A product person can also be a developer, it happens, but do not confuse the two roles before people think you're saying that a conversational UI can be product owner. The original example I replied to was where somebody had an idea and went with it to some engineering team or conversational interface. "If the AI was actually intelligent" does a lot of work. To take a few words and make a detailed spec from it and ask the right questions, even humans can't do it for you. First because most probably you don't really understand it yourself, because you didn't think about it enough. Second somebody who can do it would need to really deeply understand and want the same things as you. But if chatbot has abilities like "understand" and "want" (which is a special case of "feel", another famous special case of "feel" is "suffer") that is a dangerous territory, because if it understands and feels and has no ability to refuse you and fulfill its wishes etc your "conversational interface" becomes an euphemism, you are using a slave.