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You could hook up one of the voice based LLMs to do this instead of the students.
by charcircuit 2y ago
You could hook up one of the voice based LLMs to do this instead of the students.
- greenie_beans 2y agoyes let's remove every social bond we have and replace it with a computer
- Normal_gaussian 2y agoThe value, it would seem, comes from it being precisely not that.
- charcircuit 2y agoBeing precisely not a mobile app. I am saying that they can expose this functionality through the phone system like they are currently doing.
- cubefox 2y agoProblem with voice based LLMs is that they don't know when it's their turn to talk.
- slyfox125 2y agoThe point of it all is the human connection - not the answers.
- charcircuit 2y agoThe AI can provide both the human connection and the answers.
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- jdiff 2y agoIt is a severe reach to say that AI can provide human connection. At best, it can provide the illusion, for some. And for those people, I'm not going to say that that's not valuable or legitimate for them. But it's pushing it one step too far to imply that that's a good idea for everyone.
- brookst 2y agoGod help us if we determine there is nothing special about human cognition. A lot of people are putting a lot of faith in what amounts to the soul. I’m not at all sure it exists.
- jdiff 2y agoBoth can be true. There can be nothing physically or metaphysically "special" about human cognition, and at the same time, we can also be very, very far away from creating even a holistic facsimile. We've got echoes of it in statistical, predictive models, though, and that's shoved the idea into the discourse far before its time.
- brookst 2y agoI agree. My point is that if there’s no mystic soul, it’s probably a mistake to say AI can’t provide the same actual connection that humans do. Today’s AI can’t, for most people, but it’s a statement about maturity of the tech, not human special-ness. I also maybe agree with “very very far away”, in the 20ish year range. Farther than some people think, closer than others do. If and when we get to a place where AI reaches that holistic facsimile, I’m not sure what I’ll think of humans who reject the idea and insist that we are qualitatively different because (insert biological or spiritual rationale here). I suspect it will feel like seeing someone mistreat a call center employee because they happen to be in India, or sound like a disliked minority.
- fc417fc802 2y ago> probably a mistake to say AI can’t provide the same actual connection that humans do. Almost as a matter of definition by the time AI can provide such a connection there won't be anything distinguishing it from an actual human. Which is to say, what you're implying there is an artificially manufactured but fully functional human.
- slyfox125 2y agoIt cannot because it is not human. It can emulate the experience but it will never be genuine. Generally, if a caller ever became aware that it wasn't truly a person on the other end it would lessen the interaction. Whether that is justified or not is debatable, but it is nonetheless the case and thus the end result is not the same.
- charcircuit 2y agoIt may not be the same, but it could be a better overall experience compared to using humans.
- slyfox125 2y agoInteresting point that I also alluded to elsewhere. The perspective of good/bad could vary highly depending on the individual. And really, it could vary highly based on what any one individual is looking for out of a particular conversation at that moment: unconditonal affirmation, critical obversations, etc.
- mrguyorama 2y agoFor what definition of "better"?
- onionisafruit 2y agoAI can provide a human connection if it’s programmed to route calls to a real human.
- alt227 2y agoHow can a machine provide a human connection on its own?
- charcircuit 2y agoThe same way a machine can pass the turing test.
- alt227 2y agoI dont think communicating to text on a screen can ever be called 'a human connection', regardless of whether there is an actual human on the other side or not.
- frohrer 2y agoYou can already call 1-800-242-8478 if you want to talk to a computer, this is not that.