> Out of the last 100 years how many inventions have been made that could make any human awe like llms do right now?
Lots e.g. vacuum cleaners.
> But at no point in history could you talk to your phone
You could always "talk" to your phone just like you could "talk" to a parrot or a dog. What does that even mean?
If we're talking about LLMs, I still haven't been able to have a real conversation with 1. There's too much of a lag to feel like a conversation and often doesn't reply with anything related.
> If we're talking about LLMs, I still haven't been able to have a real conversation with 1. There's too much of a lag to feel like a conversation and often doesn't reply with anything related.
I don't believe this one bit. But keep on trucking.
Of course they aren't "real" conversations but I can dialog with LLMs as a means of clarifying my prompts. The comment about parrots and dogs is made in bad faith.
By your own admission, those are not dialogues, but merely query optimisations in an advanced query language. Like how you would tune an SQL query until your get the data you are expecting to see. That's what it is for the LLMs.
> The comment about parrots and dogs is made in bad faith
Not necessarily. (Some aphonic, adactyl downvoters seem to have possibly tried to nudge you into noticing that your idea above is against some entailed spirit the guidelines.)
The poster may have meant that for the use natural to him, he feels in the results the same utility of discussing with a good animal. "Clarifying one's prompts" may be effective in some cases, but it's probably not what others seek. It is possible that many want the good old combination of "informative" and "insightful": in practice there may be issues with both.
> "Clarifying one's prompts" may be effective in some cases but it's probably not what others seek
It's not even that. Can the LLM run away, stop the conversation or even say no? It's as much as your boss "talking" to you about the task and not giving you a chance to respond. Is that a talk? It's 1-way.
E.g. ask the LLM who invented Wikipedia. It will respond with "facts". If I ask a friend, the reply might be "look it up yourself". This a real conversation. Until then.
Even parrots and dogs can respond differently than a forced reply exactly how you need it.
Lots e.g. vacuum cleaners.
> But at no point in history could you talk to your phone
You could always "talk" to your phone just like you could "talk" to a parrot or a dog. What does that even mean?
If we're talking about LLMs, I still haven't been able to have a real conversation with 1. There's too much of a lag to feel like a conversation and often doesn't reply with anything related.