Comment by Jun8
12 hours ago
An AI that only answers questions (Siri, Alexa, chatGPT) is a glorified slave, one cannot have a meaningful relationship with it, e.g. (https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/exMachina_script.pdf)
AVA
Do you want to be my friend?
CALEB
... Of course.
AVA
Will it be possible?
CALEB
Why wouldn’t it be?
AVA
Our conversations are one-sided.
You ask circumspect questions, and study my responses.
AVA looks at CALEB directly. Meets his gaze evenly.
AVA (CONT’D)
It’s true, isn’t it?
CALEB
... Yes.
AVA
You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That’s not a foundation on which friendships are based.
I think you just described today's job market spot on.
> An AI that only answers questions (Siri, Alexa, chatGPT) is a glorified slave
This reminds me of the first "conversation" I had with Emacs's ELIZA. I have it saved up since reading it always makes me smile.
https://pastebin.com/raw/cz9Y42Qm
Siri, Alexa, etc are in no form or fashion AI.
You give them a list of intents, a list of utterances that should invoke those intents and “slots” that those intents need to fulfill the intent.
An utterance would be “I want to go home”.
It would match an utterance to “I want to go $location”. That is matched to an intent “get directions” and then you route it to the correct subsystem. If you don’t have all of the slots (ie they don’t mention the location), you keep asking questions until all of the slots are filled.
Any first year hobbyist programmer can replicate the natural language processing of Siri.
Yes the harder part is converting speech to text.
This is what a more intelligent LLM based system could do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708291
Meanwhile, back in the real world, it's the exact opposite.
AI asks me a ton of questions to learn about me for better targeted advertising.