Are we being manipulated by brilliant UX/UI designers in the AGI pitch?
When ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 and went viral, some argued that the real breakthrough wasn’t in AI — it was in UX/UI. I agreed.
When ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 and went viral, some argued that the real breakthrough wasn’t in AI — it was in UX/UI. I agreed.
Earlier LLMs were simply trained to complete sentences or paragraphs. If you typed “In a galaxy far, far away…,” it would finish your sentence with a Star Wars-like story.
OpenAI changed the game by fine-tuning ChatGPT 3.5 to complete instructions and conversations, then released it with a chat interface.
Suddenly, LLMs seemed alive — like you were talking to a person rather than using a computer program.
Since then, two schools of thought have emerged:
One camp argues LLMs are still just very large statistical predictive engines.
The other believes we’re seeing the early sign towards AGI.
I started in the first camp but have been moving closer to the second overtime.
But this post by Nick Courtney gave me a new perspective:
It highlights how AI labs deliberately use anthropomorphic design choices to make AI mimic humans.
For example, showing “Thinking…” instead of “Computing…” when the system is processing.
It made me pause:
Are we moving closer to AGI — or are we being manipulated by brilliant UX design to feel like we are?
What do you think?
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