The best conversations I still have are with real people, but those are rare. With ChatGPT, I reliably have good conversations, whereas with people, it’s hit or miss, usually miss.
What AI does better:
- It’s willing to discuss esoteric topics. Most humans prefer to talk about people and events.
- It’s not driven by emotions or personal bias.
- It doesn’t make mean, snide, sarcastic, ad hominem, or strawman responses.
- It understands and responds to my actual view, even from a vague description, whereas humans often misunderstand me and argue against views I don’t hold.
- It tells me when I’m wrong but without being a jerk about it.
Another noteworthy point is that I’m very likely on the autistic spectrum, and my mind works differently than the average person’s, which probably explains, in part, why I struggle to maintain interest with human-to-human interactions.
I’m not using chatGPT to improve my communication skills. I’m using it to have interesting and insightful discussions where I don’t need to debate semantics. It’s entertainment. Better than watchig YouTube atleast which is what I would otherwise do.
Sure thing, as I say your initial point stands.
For the sake of discussion only I ask “what is the point of achieving insight if it is too difficult to communicate it to others?”
What do you mean by debate semantics? Can you clarify that?
I’m not sure whether semantics is the right term to describe it, but what I mean is that I can, for example, reference quite esoteric terms or concepts in a sentence, and it immediately knows what I mean. Even if it doesn’t, I can make a small clarification, and it simply gets it. I can then move on to discuss what I actually wanted to talk about, rather than having to explain what I meant by something I previously said, let alone having to defend that concept, like no free will, when that’s not even what I was interested in discussing in the first place.