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Is the LLM model a Christmas tree decorated with doo dads? That is, like a Chatbot? A vertical experience. Or is it like electricity that can be infused into everything? A horizontal technology?
Chatbots can do super-human persuasion and never get tired. Whose motives they are aligned with, who they work for, is a matter of critical importance.
Chatbots are not LLMs. LLMs are not AI. They are all related, but they are different.
There's a difference between "create a chat" and "create a chatbot" in an AI-native system. The former encourages the mental model that you're talking to the omniscient service in a new thread. The latter encourages ...
...ife has to be like a close friend you really trust. In order to be trusted, the chatbot has to pretend to be your friend. It's a lie. Your chatbot is a double agent. It doesn't work for you.
If it turns out that chatbot is the be-all-end-all of AI UX, then ChatGPT will be the king. I believe chat is a feature, not a paradigm. We just haven't found the GUI for AI yet.
A paper on AI-induced dehumanization. As we interact with chatbots more often, we also treat humans in a more transactional way.
Your therapist and your coworker can't be the same person.[cq] A chatbot with a single[cr][cs] personality, identity, and memory for your whole life doesn't make sense. (And no, work "therapy" is very different from actual...
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?"