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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.

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1. gowld ◴[] No.46195309[source]
There are billions of humans. Not every one speaks the same way all the time. The default behavior is trying to be useful for most people.

It's easy to skip and skim content you don't care about. It's hard to prod and prod to get to to say something you do care about it if the machine is traint to be very concise.

Complaining the AI can't read your mind is exceptionally high praise for the AI, frankly.