> This is useful when you simply can’t hear someone very well or when the speaker makes a mistake
I have a few friends with pretty heavy accents and broken English. Even my partner makes frequent mistakes as a non native English speaker. It's made me much better at communicating but it's also more work and easier for miscommunication to happen. I think a lot of people don't realize this also happens with variation in culture. So even within people speaking the same language. It's just that the accent serves as a flag for "pay closer attention". I suspect this is a subtle but contributing problem to miscommunication on the and why fights are so frequent.Are you criticizing LLMs? Highlighting the importance of this training and why we're trained that way even as children? That it is an important part of what we call reasoning?
Or are you giving LLMs the benefit of the doubt, saying that even humans have these failure modes?[0]
Though my point is more that natural language is far more ambiguous than I think people give credit to. I'm personally always surprised that a bunch of programmers don't understand why programming languages were developed in the first place. The reason they're hard to use is explicitly due to their lack of ambiguity, at least compared to natural languages. And we can see clear trade offs with how high level a language is. Duck typing is both incredibly helpful while being a major nuisance. It's the same reason even a technical manager often has a hard time communicating instructions. Compression of ideas isn't very easy
[0] I've never fully understood that argument. Wouldn't we call a person stupid for giving a similar answer? How does the existence of stupid mean we can't call LLMs stupid? It's simultaneously anthropomorphising while being mechanistic.
I did not catch that in the first pass.
I read it as the casualties, who would be buried wherever the next of kin or the will says they should.