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by blululu 1089 days ago
Strong disagree. These are straw man arguments about the limitations of models. Senior executives, politicians and people in high leadership positions can see their wildest dreams realized using little more than natural language and discussions with the world’s leading experts. Satya Nadella or Joe Biden don’t enjoy and special abstractions and yet they are able to get everything they want using natural language.
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The ability to express oneself through natural language is tangentially related to its suitability as the foundation of a user interface.

A natural language should let you express your thoughts effectively. A user interface should let you accomplish the task you want effectively, within the limited capabilities of the program you are using. And it should expose those limits, not make you discover them through trial and error, as opaque, conversational interfaces do.

Or maybe they use natural language because they have no choice. If Nadella or Biden could just push some buttons to make things happen, they probably would. I know I would.