> You are falling into the trap that everyone does. In anthropomorphising it. It doesn't understand anything you say.

And an intern does?

Anthropomorphising LLMs isn't entirely incorrect: they're trained to complete text like a human would, in completely general setting, so by anthropomorphising them you're aligning your expectations with the models' training goals.

Oh no, I'm well aware that it's a big file full of numbers. But when you chat with it, you interact with it as though it were a person so you are necessarily anthropomorphizing it, and so you get to pick the style of the interaction.

(In truth, I actually treat it in my mind like it's the Enterprise computer and I'm Beverly Crusher in "Remember Me")