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by satvikpendem 953 days ago
Yep, if a chatbot could do all those things then I'd honestly rather use that chatbot than talk to a human, unless I had some very specific concern. But it seems that GPT models can understand other humans just fine.
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I recently un-forked a repository on Github. This is not something there is UI for, you need to go through customer service. That was mostly a chat bot. Since I felt that if anyone has a bot that is able to actually do something, it's Github, so I went with it and my repo was un-forked right away. I think there was a person involved but that felt mostly like a screening process. And for that I agree: I like the human touch when I order, say, coffee. Not when I just need to get something done.
What do you mean by "other" humans?
As in LLMs have human-like understanding in a way that previous chatbots did not, they can both understand and emit human text.
... they can both understand and emit human text.

Yikes! We are headed towards customer service hell. At least I'd like there to be some human feelings while I'm getting fucked.

Why is that yikes? Navigating a UI is oftentimes easier than calling in and being placed on hold. Not in all cases, as I've said, but many.
Phone queues are frustrating. But I'm not there to get mindless text generated back at me. I've already experienced it. Reminds me of all the dystopian art trying to depict the human despair and powerlessness of facing the system that society has created.
Idk man they're just tools, as long as they get stuff done, I don't care in what medium they do it in. Nothing "dystopian" about it.