Comment by sillywabbit

1 day ago

Do you think of your non-AI conversational partners as tools as well?

Yes, although resources might be a better word than tools in that case. If I'm at the library and I'm asking the librarian to help me locate some information, they are definitely an educated resource that I'm using. The same for interacting with any other person who is an expert whose opinion or advice I'm seeking.

  • Those experts will generally ask clarifying questions if they don't understand what you're asking, rather than spin you in circles. The reason they're considered experts in the first place is they understand the topic they're sharing information on better than you do. It's not the end users fault that the LLM is spewing nonsense in a way that can be mistaken for human-like.