←back to thread

323 points steerlabs | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
keiferski ◴[] No.46192154[source]
The thing that bothers me the most about LLMs is how they never seem to understand "the flow" of an actual conversation between humans. When I ask a person something, I expect them to give me a short reply which includes another question/asks for details/clarification. A conversation is thus an ongoing "dance" where the questioner and answerer gradually arrive to the same shared meaning.

LLMs don't do this. Instead, every question is immediately responded to with extreme confidence with a paragraph or more of text. I know you can minimize this by configuring the settings on your account, but to me it just highlights how it's not operating in a way remotely similar to the human-human one I mentioned above. I constantly find myself saying, "No, I meant [concept] in this way, not that way," and then getting annoyed at the robot because it's masquerading as a human.

replies(37): >>46192230 #>>46192268 #>>46192346 #>>46192427 #>>46192525 #>>46192574 #>>46192631 #>>46192754 #>>46192800 #>>46192900 #>>46193063 #>>46193161 #>>46193374 #>>46193376 #>>46193470 #>>46193656 #>>46193908 #>>46194231 #>>46194299 #>>46194388 #>>46194411 #>>46194483 #>>46194761 #>>46195048 #>>46195085 #>>46195309 #>>46195615 #>>46195656 #>>46195759 #>>46195794 #>>46195918 #>>46195981 #>>46196365 #>>46196372 #>>46196588 #>>46197200 #>>46198030 #
1. not_ai ◴[] No.46192427[source]
I didn't have the words to articulate some of my frustrations, but I think you summed it up nicely.

For example, there's been many times when they take it too literally instead of looking at the totality of the context and what was written. I'm not an LLM, so I don't have perfect grasp on every vocab term for every domain and it feels especially pandering when they repeat back the wrong word but put it in quotes or bold instead of simply asking if I meant something else.