Voice input to legacy computer systems felt excruciating, but voice commands to LLMs feels like flying.

· Bits and Bobs 2/18/25
  • Voice input to legacy computer systems felt excruciating, but voice commands to LLMs feels like flying.
    • When we talk it's a stream of consciousness.
      • It's non-linear; with ums, ahs, corrections, and disfluencies.
      • Stream of consciousness is non-linear. It's responding to how the idea hits you as it tumbles out of your lips, how the other person receives or acknowledges it (or fails to), etc.
    • Mechanistic assistance systems couldn't understand that, they are linear.
      • They need to be programmed with fractally precise rules to understand the non-linearities.
    • But LLMs can understand our nonlinear speech!
      • They can meet us at our non-linearities.
    • Writing is like speaking, but more linear.
    • Speaking is like thinking, but more linear.[yx]

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