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Intelligence is not the same as usefulness. In chatbots so far the two were aligned but we've hit diminishing returns because we can't tell the difference in intelligence anymore. Intelligence used to be ...
...uestion is not, "how to do cool open ended things with LLMs." That's easy. As a chatbot, it's trivial. As a thing that can do tool use (and possibly have side effects), it's easy to do for enthusiasts who are willing and able to use the ...
One cynical reason to hide the memory in a chatbot: more stickiness. Illegible state leads to increased stickiness. Harder for users to exit.
...s potential. The current manifestation is the simplest thing you can imagine: a chatbot. But that manifestation is obviously not the end point.
... important. That's the world we're skating towards with vertical integration of chatbots if chatbots are the one UI to rule them all.
ChatGPT tops out as a Chatbot. Is chat really all there is? Chat is a feature, not a paradigm. Which would you choose between 1) a product that's only a Chatbot tied to one model ...
Will the main loop of the AI-native experience be a chatbot that is omniscient and makes all of the calls? Or will chat be a contained feature that pops up when necessary? Everyone else assumes the former, but...
...o LLMs, why not pick the option that is the open ecosystem, that includes other Chatbots as apps?[ky]
...ed entity whose motives you have to question.[ln] The key characteristic of all chatbots is it's an entity that you interact with ephemerally. If the chatbot is the core that everything revolves around, then the whole system revolves aro...
Prompt injection can't be solved if you assume the chatbot is the main entity calling the shots. Because chatbots are confusable, so they can't enforce security boundaries. The chatbot is in charge, which can...
Chatbots have the potential to take parasocial relationships to a toxic extreme. A sycophant on demand.[mf]
Five years from now people will look back and say "remember when we thought Chatbots were the main thing?"
Chatbots can help you start any task, but they don't help you keep going. Their lack of structure helps you get started, but prevents you from making progres...
Chatbot is a feature, not a paradigm. As an industry we're so distracted by Chatbots. Chatbots are the most obvious use of LLMs, what you'd come up with afte...
Chatbots are a confirmation bias generating machine. If they know your context, they can do a very believable job of confirming your bias.
...ing to a god, and more like an enchanted tool[wv]. AGI is often envisioned as a chatbot. How backwards! All of that awesome power in a little personified god in a box. AI should be about empowerment of people, enchanting our tools.
...frame for software in the era of AI. It sounds insightful because it's not just chatbots, it's a step beyond. But the more you pull on the thread, the more the problems of letting balls of LLM agency take real actions on your behalf star...
The assumption that Chatbots are the killer app for LLMs presupposes a centralized, necessarily one-size-fits-none system. When you centralize, you have to have a one-size-fits-...