alt Hacker NewsHumans also often get lost in multi-turn conversation.
I have experienced that in person many, many times. Jumps in context that seem easy for one person to follow, but very hard for others.
So, assuming the paper is legit (arxiv, you never know...), its more like something that could be improved than a difference from human beings.
Subjectively the "getting lost" feels totally different than human conversations. Once there is something bad in the context it seems almost impossible to get back on track. All subsequent responses become get a lot worse and it starts contradicting itself. It is possible that with more training this problem can be improved, but what is interesting to me isn't it's worse than humans in this way but that this sort of difficulty scales differently than it does in humans. I would love to get some more objective descriptions of these subjective notions.