https://wenyi.blog/tags/journal/ Recent content in Journal on Purpose and Function Hugo -- 0.157.0 en-us https://wenyi.blog/posts/chatgpt-the-slot-machine/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://wenyi.blog/posts/chatgpt-the-slot-machine/ <blockquote> <p>It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.</p> </blockquote> <p>The word “chat” in ChatGPT always amuses me. It’s brilliant branding: one syllable that makes machine output feel like human conversation. But with AI, the ‘chat’ rarely feels participatory—at least not in the way we’re used to.</p> <p>The best thing about human conversation is locality. You can interrupt—“wait, what do you mean by that?”—request a rephrase, and get the updated version right where the confusion happened. The whole experience is functionally nonlinear: it emerges, loops back, and self-corrects.</p>