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Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

This is really funny to me. If you keep optimizing this process you'll eventually completely remove the AI parts. Really shows how some of the pains AI claims to solve are self-inflicted. A good UI would have allowed the user to make this transaction in the same time it took to give the AI its initial instructions.

On this topic, here's another common anti-pattern that I'm waiting for people to realize is insane and do something about it:

person A needs to convey an idea/proposal
they write a short but complete technical specification for it
it doesn't comply with some arbitrary standard/expectation so they tell an AI to expand the text
the AI can't add any real information, it just spreads the same information over more text
person B receives the text and is annoyed at how verbose it is
they tell an AI to summarize it
they get something that basically aims to be the original text, but it's been passed through an unreliable hallucinating energy-inefficient channel

Based on true stories.

The above is not to say that every AI use case is made up or that the demo in the video isn't cool. It's also not a problem exclusive to AI. This is a more general observation that people don't question the sanity of interfaces enough, even when it costs them a lot of extra work to comply with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know the implied better solution to your example story would be for there to not be a standard that the specification has to conform to, but sometimes there is a reason for such a standard, in which case getting rid of the standard is just as bad as the AI channel in the example, and the real solution is for the two humans to actually take their work seriously.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

No, the implied solution is to reevaluate the standard rather than hacking around it. The two humans should communicate that the standard works for neither side and design a better way to do things.

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