Amelia Wattenberger
Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; now at Adept; writes at wattenberger.com.
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Their wordsGood tools make it clear how they should be used. And more importantly, how they should not be used.
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Their wordsGood tools let the user choose when to switch between implementation and evaluation. When I work with a chatbot, I'm forced to frequently switch between the two modes.
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Their wordsI want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves using our new AI technology in more deft ways than generating more content for humans to evaluate. I believe the real game changers are going to have very little to do with plain content generation.
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Our reading
Chatbots are a terrible interface for large language models, because a text box has no affordances.
Their wordsHopefully I've convinced you that chatbots are a terrible interface for LLMs. Or, at the very least, that we can add controls, information, and affordances to our chatbot interfaces to make them more usable.