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by simongray 23 days ago
They don't act the way humans would.

It's normal to start a sentence after the other person in the conversation pauses, especially if you're eager to say something (like the chat agent is), but a real human is socially aware and would in most cases immediately cease talking if the other person starts another sentence at the same time. Humans do this so much in their conversations that the other person doesn't really register the interruption at all.
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rhet0rica 23 days ago
Encoded in its design are the biases of its designers. It acts like a nervous twenty-something from San Francisco.
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OrangeMusic 23 days ago
Exactly. If they have a setting somewhere for the minimum duration of a pause in the user's speech before starting replying, they should just crank it up.

In this other add [1], it's even worse, the user has to say "There's more to the story though" and almost looks annoyed + the agent overreacts to _that_ with a weird "Aaaaahh!".

Oh well... I'm sure they'll get it right eventually.

[1] https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/?video=1208099...

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