Comment by doctorpangloss
6 hours ago
okay... here's another way of thinking about it: claude, gemini and chatgpt are very good at communicating. but, would you marry claude? would you want claude to be your boss? would you want claude to be your coworker? a lot of people are choosing claude to be their intern, which is something.
what i am saying is, having people skills are the answers "yes" to all those questions. you can cynically call getting a job nepotism, or you can call it, well people like to work with their friends at the cost of measures of competency. and maybe, the core competency is being pleasant to work with or work for.
another place people struggle with this is executive compensation. if i told every DoD employee they could get a 10x better boss for only $20/y, every single one would, which is $58m in executive compensation. but the DoD CAN'T do that, and its leadership is TERRIBLE, so... do you see?
> would you want claude to be your boss? would you want claude to be your coworker?
I've had worse. Mostly much better, but I've had worse.
> claude, gemini and chatgpt are very good at communicating
There is no communication there. No concepts for them to communicate. It is just math.
Regardless of the implementation, claude causes concepts to enter my brain, so it is at least one-way communication. Human brains have mundane implementations as well: chemical signals firing across neural synapses. No magic special sauce, at least not that we can detect
My rock collection causes concepts to enter my brain, but I don't think I'd say they're communicating with me, nor I with them.
I would say you communicate to the model and you interpret the model's outputs. I would not say the model communicates back though.
I'm not sure that models are complex enough to have a consistent internal representation of a concept the same way that organic brains can to communicate. I'm not sure of any quantitative science backing this up though. Models don't know anything across iterations yet.
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