alt Hacker NewsNo, you don’t. Not in the way the essay portrays it. You don’t ask your calculator “what am I supposed to do with number 2, 2 and funny star (*)”, do you? You have a clear calculation in your mind: multiply two by two.
No, you don’t. Not in the way the essay portrays it. You don’t ask your calculator “what am I supposed to do with number 2, 2 and funny star (*)”, do you? You have a clear calculation in your mind: multiply two by two.
That's actually a very good catch. Like, we can talk and drive, but we usually can't talk and read something different, one or the other will be seriously hampered.
We can punch in numbers into calculator mostly by mechanical memory but prompting LLMs and reading their output for most people occupies the same lane that's used for talking to other people!