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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. bwahah4 ◴[] No.46195615[source]
In the US anyway, most adults read at a middle school level.

It's not "masquerading as a human". The majority of humans are functional illiterates who only understand the world through the elementary principles of their local culture.

It's the minority of the human species that take what amounts to little more than arguing semantics that need the reality check. Unless one is involved in work that directly impacts public safety (defined as harm to biology) the demand to apply one concept or another is arbitrary preference.

Healthcare, infrastructure, and essential biological support services are all most humans care about. Everything else the majority see as academic wank.