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You can participate in more highly intelligent discussions, great for a dinner party or a date or an interview. Everywhere you go you can know it all, many use

You can participate in more highly intelligent discussions, great for a dinner party or a date or an interview. Everywhere you go you can know it all, many use cases. The people who don’t do it, will be at a severe disadvantage.

samtp 1y ago
So other people sitting at the table with you are supposed to be impressed or interested in you regurgitating words said to you by an AI voice in your head? Honestly if I went on a date and the other person was also having a conversation with an AI chatbot, I'd run as fast away as possible because that is insane.
- deadbabe 1y ago
  It’s no different from all the other ways people try to impress each other.
  - samtp 1y ago
    It is vastly different because you aren't presenting anything novel or interesting. You'd just be parroting a computer program and acting like it is a substitute for personality, whit, and character. More than anything it would broadcast a fear of opening up and showing who you really are to other people. So instead of risking saying something silly, you replace your sense of identity with a generic chatbot. Super cool.
    - deadbabe 1y ago
      You don’t think an AI can present anything novel or interesting? You think you just know it all already??
raincole 1y ago
Why would the other people on the table be interested in what you're saying when they can talk to their ChatGPT too?
- deadbabe 1y ago
  Because they get more clout by appearing intelligent in public speaking with others.
  - samtp 1y ago
    How does repeating words whispered in your ear show intelligence?
    - slg 1y ago
      It doesn’t, it shows something that appears to be intelligence. Although it isn’t surprising that people all in on LLMs might not see any distinction there.
Verdex 1y ago
I have a relative who likes to lookup Wikipedia articles that he finds interesting and then read them to rooms full of people. It's like, I can read Wikipedia myself. Somehow I don't think anyone is going to be impressed by someone regurgitating chatgpt.
- netsharc 1y ago
  I imagine an LLM that has more realtime capabilities and can respond (or tell you what to say) on the fly would be a more fascinating conversation partner (well, on the surface!) than what you're depicting: a person who'd stop a conversation to ask the phone, and then just read the LLM's response. I've read that interviews with Stephen Hawking are excruciating because he'd take many minutes to "type" up his response. Of course people are still engaged because it's Hawking and the answer is from his brain, someone pausing to interact with an LLM would be a bore indeed.
  - samtp 1y ago
    I think you're failing to understand that the human part of conversations is what makes them worthwhile. Otherwise you might as well just be talking by yourself to a circuit board.
    - netsharc 1y ago
      Well duh... what I'm portraying is someone faking a human conversation, but who's actually just an output device for an LLM. A bit like pick-up artists going through a routine. What you're portraying is someone reciting Wikipedia, which would obviously be dull. And from that you're extrapolating that someone robotically reciting what an LLM is whispering would also be dull. What I'm saying is, have a little bit more imagination and imagine someone seemingly in natural conversation, who is actually an LLM. Could they be engaging? IMO quite a bit more engaging compared to someone reading Wikipedia out loud. Would it be artificial? It still is. But would the conversation partner notice? Maybe not for a while. Would I hate it? Of course...
      - 1y ago

samtp 1y ago

So other people sitting at the table with you are supposed to be impressed or interested in you regurgitating words said to you by an AI voice in your head? Honestly if I went on a date and the other person was also having a conversation with an AI chatbot, I'd run as fast away as possible because that is insane.

deadbabe 1y ago
It’s no different from all the other ways people try to impress each other.
- samtp 1y ago
  It is vastly different because you aren't presenting anything novel or interesting. You'd just be parroting a computer program and acting like it is a substitute for personality, whit, and character. More than anything it would broadcast a fear of opening up and showing who you really are to other people. So instead of risking saying something silly, you replace your sense of identity with a generic chatbot. Super cool.
  - deadbabe 1y ago
    You don’t think an AI can present anything novel or interesting? You think you just know it all already??

raincole 1y ago

Why would the other people on the table be interested in what you're saying when they can talk to their ChatGPT too?

deadbabe 1y ago
Because they get more clout by appearing intelligent in public speaking with others.
- samtp 1y ago
  How does repeating words whispered in your ear show intelligence?
  - slg 1y ago
    It doesn’t, it shows something that appears to be intelligence. Although it isn’t surprising that people all in on LLMs might not see any distinction there.

Verdex 1y ago

I have a relative who likes to lookup Wikipedia articles that he finds interesting and then read them to rooms full of people. It's like, I can read Wikipedia myself. Somehow I don't think anyone is going to be impressed by someone regurgitating chatgpt.

netsharc 1y ago
I imagine an LLM that has more realtime capabilities and can respond (or tell you what to say) on the fly would be a more fascinating conversation partner (well, on the surface!) than what you're depicting: a person who'd stop a conversation to ask the phone, and then just read the LLM's response. I've read that interviews with Stephen Hawking are excruciating because he'd take many minutes to "type" up his response. Of course people are still engaged because it's Hawking and the answer is from his brain, someone pausing to interact with an LLM would be a bore indeed.
- samtp 1y ago
  I think you're failing to understand that the human part of conversations is what makes them worthwhile. Otherwise you might as well just be talking by yourself to a circuit board.
  - netsharc 1y ago
    Well duh... what I'm portraying is someone faking a human conversation, but who's actually just an output device for an LLM. A bit like pick-up artists going through a routine. What you're portraying is someone reciting Wikipedia, which would obviously be dull. And from that you're extrapolating that someone robotically reciting what an LLM is whispering would also be dull. What I'm saying is, have a little bit more imagination and imagine someone seemingly in natural conversation, who is actually an LLM. Could they be engaging? IMO quite a bit more engaging compared to someone reading Wikipedia out loud. Would it be artificial? It still is. But would the conversation partner notice? Maybe not for a while. Would I hate it? Of course...
    - 1y ago