Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?
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Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?
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Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?
#2Short answer: because chat is a shortcut to anthropomorphization in folks' brains. It's much easier to assign personality and intent to a chat than a floating head that needs to be 99.999% lifelike in order to not feel completely fake.
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#3Chat is perhaps the cheapest implementation you could ever build. It's a linear interaction, easy to test, and arguably the easiest to encode/decode (with a fixed set of inputs too). As an added bonus, it has a familiar, well-understood interface.
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#4Chat is perhaps the cheapest implementation you could ever build. It's a linear interaction, easy to test, and arguably the easiest to encode/decode (with a fixed set of inputs too). As an added bonus, it has a familiar, well-understood interface.
Exactly. Text is very easy for us to analyze, understand, and compare inputs with outputs
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#5Not an actual pattern
AI cycle in 2012 started with alexnet
AI cycle in 2019 started with Stable Difffusion
Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?
#6Chat is perhaps the cheapest implementation you could ever build. It's a linear interaction, easy to test, and arguably the easiest to encode/decode (with a fixed set of inputs too). As an added bonus, it has a familiar, well-understood interface.
Exactly. Text is very easy for us to analyze, understand, and compare inputs with outputs
Excuse me? A 10x10 plot for an sd lora makes it easy to glance over and see where and how it fails. Good luck glancing at a bunch of text answers.
Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?
#7Short answer: because chat is a shortcut to anthropomorphization in folks' brains. It's much easier to assign personality and intent to a chat than a floating head that needs to be 99.999% lifelike in order to not feel completely fake.
A better answer: natural language is the programming language everyone knows.
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#8I'm curious about: alpha go, Watson, and the AI that "conquered" chess. Are those outliers, or part of a larger story? It feels to me a contemporary history of AI would mention those milestones.
Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?
#9Short answer: because chat is a shortcut to anthropomorphization in folks' brains. It's much easier to assign personality and intent to a chat than a floating head that needs to be 99.999% lifelike in order to not feel completely fake.
A better answer: natural language is the programming language everyone knows.
> A better answer: natural language is the programming language everyone knows.
And when you get into frustrating misunderstanding of details you end up using a programming language anyway. Natural languages are to ambiguous to be useful for specific things. We humans can resolve the ambiguities in our minds, or think we do, based on context. I think the anthropomorphization argument hits closer to home. I feel guilty too of projecting more meaning and intelligence to a generated text and I think I'm not the only one.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. Text is very easy for us to analyze, understand, and compare inputs with outputs
Excuse me? A 10x10 plot for an sd lora makes it easy to glance over and see where and how it fails. Good luck glancing at a bunch of text answers.
LoRAs are fine tuned changes to an existing model, often one that is already mature and well-trained. The process is understood and documented.
OP is referring to early phases of model development using new techniques, where outputs can vary wildly until corrected and evaluated at scale. The process is often adaptive, iterative, and by nature experimental. Text in this case is indeed easier to evaluate.