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by gaazoh 1089 days ago
While I agree with the title, I find it very lackluster that it entirely focuses on some specific AI interfaces.

First of all, ChatGTP implies by its name that it's designed to chat. It's a sophisticated chatbot, but a chatbox nonetheless, you are not going to have a chat by filling a form. Then the examples given for StableDiffusion are not natural language. In this case, there can probably be a better interface than a single textbox, but the issue is the textbox, not that it expects natural language (it doesn't).

Other types of interface for AI stuff do exist. Copilot is also an LLM, but it takes surrounding code as input, not a natural language prompt. Plenty (most) of models take whatever format is convenient for the task and output an adapted format (image/video/text classification, feature detection...).

On the other hand, there are some interfaces that force natural language processing where it is one of the most unnatural and ineffective option, and no AI whatsoever is involved. Anyone who ever tried to book a train ticket in France in the past couple of years know what I mean[0]. Having to spell out an itinerary and date information is very, very confusing and error prone.

[0] https://www.sncf-connect.com/