“I pretend to be dumb when I speak to the robot so it won’t feel like it has to use my ideas, so I can hear the ideas that it comes up with instead” is such a weird, futuristic thing to have to deal with. Neat!
This is actually a common dynamic between humans, especially when there is a status or knowledge imbalance. If you do user interviews, one of the most important skills is not injecting your views into the conversation.
I try to look for one comment like this in every AI post. Because after the applications, the politics, the debates, the stock market —- if you strip all those impacts away, you’re reminded that we have intuitive computers now.
