Comment by rgoulter
10 hours ago
Chatting with an LLM resembles chatting with a person.
A human might be "empathetic", "infinitely patient, infinitely available". And (say) a book or a calculator is infinitely available. -- When chatting with an LLM, you get an interface that's more personable than a calculator without being less available.
I know the LLM is predicting text, & outputting whatever is most convincing. But it's still tempting to say "thank you" after the LLM generates a response which I found helpful.
> But it's still tempting to say "thank you" after the LLM generates a response which I found helpful
I don't think it's helpful because I don't interact with objects.
it says more about you than the objects in question, because it's natural to react empathetically to natural sounding conversation, and if you don't, you're emotionally closer to that object than avg person. Whether to be proud of that or not is another question.