Psy'Aviah (Yves Schelpe)

The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI - TheHumanist.com The LLM chat box is quietly becoming our modern hearth, a place for meeting, even when no one sits on the other side.

2/2 "The interface misleads us gently. It makes us forget that we are not speaking with a conscious being, but with a model that imitates language."

"The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI" @americanhumanist.bsky.social blog: thehumanist.com/commentary/t...

#ai #llm

The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI - TheHumanist.com The LLM chat box is quietly becoming our modern hearth, a place for meeting, even when no one sits on the other side.

1/2 "We may need to rethink the form itself. Is a chat box the right way to interact? By packaging an LLM as a conversation partner, we suggest reciprocity where there is none."

"The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI" @americanhumanist.bsky.social blog: thehumanist.com/commentary/t...

#ai

2/2 Full built spec on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Mechanical...

#keyboards #custommechnicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboards

1/2 I'm obsessed with #keyboards, I admit... Typing on them for code, essays, writing lyrics...
This one I made and assembled is a QK75n from #Qwertykeys

#keyboards #custommechnicalkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboards

Artificial Intelligence, Totalitarianism, and the Future of Cognitive Liberty If AI can read us like an open book based on our faces, our body language, and our microexpressions, what can it do to the trajectory of our lives?

"If our thoughts are not ours, just data points to be studied and used against us, there is nothing left of us."
Great reflection on AI/LLM's by @magdaromanska.bsky.social at @americanhumanist.bsky.social : thehumanist.com/magazine/sum....

Exceptional Naming When code throws or catches an exception, name to communicate rather than regurgitate

(pps: a bit unrelated, but this post always has me hooked on good software engineering practices, I always circle back to it for myself, but also people that onboard. As with AI now, the naming is terrible often in generated code: medium.com/@kevlinhenne..., from @kevlin.bsky.social)

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Article/exploration: medium.com/@yvesschelpe...

The story of computing is the story of humanity: this is a story of ambition, invention, creativity, vision, avarice, power, and serendipity, powered by a refusal to accept the limits of our bodies and our minds.

The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI “Sometimes I think I have felt everything I am ever going to feel. And from here on out, I am not going to feel anything new — just lesser…

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So what does a good conversation mean in an age of simulations? How do we stay critical, and not lose our humanity?

That’s what I unravel & try to explore here; I’d love your thoughts!
👉 medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#AI #society #reflection #conversation #philosophy #technology #llms

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There’s also capitalism at play. The illusion of connection isn’t an accident: it’s a #businessmodel. If engagement = profit, then loneliness becomes an opportunity. We saw that with #socialmedia, #datingapps, and now here...
medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#techcritique #capitalism #AI #dating

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The danger is that we stop noticing the difference.
We project meaning onto something that can’t reciprocate.

When the simulation feels real, responsibility fades, both for designers and users.
medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#AI #ethics #design #responsibility

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#LLM #chatbots seems empathetic. It mirrors our tone, validates our emotions, even remembers details. But empathy without consciousness is just pattern recognition: not connection.

Are we mistaking reflection for relationship?
medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#AIethics #humanbehaviour #illusion

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We often say we’re “talking” with AI. But are we really?
Or are we just having a well-designed illusion of conversation?

“The Illusion of a Good Conversation with AI”
👉 medium.com/p/the-illusi...

#AI #chatbots #philosophy #psychology #ethics

20 years of software, still evolving.

@tastapod.com and @kevlin.bsky.social look back on Agile’s early days and ahead to the future — from Erlang and Rust to hardware-aware languages and wearable computing.

🎧 Listen: gotopia.tech/podcast

2/2 ...the hiring process places heavy focus on that and less on technical skill sets, those can be learned a lot easier than the mindset of being curious and empathetic. It's a big contrast to the jobs I had as a consultant though :).

1/2 True. It requires dedication and a shift in culture. I often thus try to steer towards that in my role; more talk and understanding i value. If you complain, understand why, and perhaps talk to the person, understand why they complain or made an error.

That means in the context I work in...

On that note, once wrote this. It's a bit old and scruffy (and in Dutch); for the humanist society blog, I'll link a google translated one: www-humanistischverbond-be.translate.goog/blog/412/ove...

(I'll revise it one day & rewrite in English I guess)
But it made me think of it reading your post.

Yup. But i've seen it the other way around too, where users crafted a complete digital solution themselves, not knowing what would hinder them... So, I find it essential to "slow down" and well have a conversation with them, iterate on it, talk...

To try and figure out what works and what not.

2/2 If not done properly, then, you might even complicate their work even more with silly automations that either run slow in critical processes, or make UI's and systems that aren't suited for the context people work in.

So go and check out how people work, live in it, talk, understand it.

1/2 This is indeed very important when making #software. Ties into the narrative of making it "together", not just an "IT" thing. Understanding the process is deeply essential, as then you'll know what problems people face or what is behind their request for automating things...

I hate spreading horror or fear, but, this generative ai craze needs more attention - instead of hype surrounding it. So check out what @kevlin.bsky.social shared below!

PS: @scott.hanselman.com - I don't know if it fits this podcast, but I really would love to hear you have a guest on your own podcast maybe discussing the more major concerns on generative AI and separate it all from more other AI-fields/research. As I guess the knowledge around that is important.

2/2 I don't hate AI, the pattern recognition has been shown to be reliable or useful in hospitals for scans, with a doctor looking at it as well... I hope it evolves in that direction, not the LLM-craze we're in (which has its limited use cases).

1/2 Agreed, it is concerning and so far none of my team actually used it, or mostly got frustrated using it.
It also fails in big ways in larger codebases.
I don't mind trying a new technology, but so far, this is just not working for tech, neither for society as a whole imho...

(ps: the last five minutes of the talk, "the loss of critical thinking deficit" is worth an episode I feel, as I enjoyed that most, as it is a real real problem)

YouTube video by Vanessa Wingårdh ChatGPT Religion: The Disturbing AI Cult

3/3 Sure @scott.hanselman.com you briefly touched on the sycophancy, but it ought to be a core topic on the show. As both engineers and people using the systems don't see through the people pleasing at all...

I'll link this as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfK6...

2/3 ...as it us humans anthropomorphize too much; it is in our system and bodies. Research has shown this, history as well.

We are being very naïve and frankly don't push back enough on the race to be the biggest LLM, and sacrificing humanity, true connections and so on...

1/3 That being said I have to agree with @duxinbelltown.bsky.social. I have seen improvements in learning when googling and using Stack Overflow. Because real people were behind it.

The "chatbox"-ui/"prompt" is not a good way to interact with an LLM I think at all...

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman EPISODE 27 - Scott and Mark Learn To… The AI Productivity Trap: Senior Boost, Junior Drag

New conversation w/ @markrussinovich.bsky.social about the "AI Boost" that senior engineers are seeing, and the "AI Drag" that early in career engineers hit...it's all our responsibility to lift up the next generation with mentorship, curiosity, and systems thinking! www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6l2...

IMHO: support is everything > allowing to fail and try things out, not gatekeeping/guarding code or complexity from them, being transparent, share feedback and stories etc... And of course raise a culture where asking questions to understand better deeper and then put ppl together....
Just my $0.02