Paul Kedrosky: ChatGPT as the original AI Error.
- Paul Kedrosky: ChatGPT as the original AI Error.
- "The human fascination with conversation has led us AI astray,"
- The "LLMs being an anthropomorphized agent" is a hack that makes it easier for users to connect with this alien technology.
- Like the aliens in Contact.
- Not its most natural form, but the most natural form for us.
- It's a dangerous hack for us, it allows these double agents to feel like an agent to us.
- A malicious metaphor.
- It also gets companies who use it stuck in a corner.
- If your product is your users' best friend, then you've put yourself in a difficult position.
- It's cynical... but also a bad tactic.
- If you make any change people will say "you just amputated the limb of my best friend!"
- The anthropomorphization of LLMs is the wrong path.
- LLMs should be a force that animates and enchants other non-textual things like coactive UIs.