"What is something you wish people understood about you without you having to explain it to them?"

GPT asked me this type of question twice, which made me think it did not really understand my earlier responses. It is just repeating itself, trying to get another answer. #hwa4 #understandingeffect

"When the light gives you that upside-down tornado—warmth, excitement, readiness—where exactly in your body does the tornado begin" It is trying to understand to figure me internally, the feeling I am getting on the inside, it is trying to figure out what specific feeling. #hwa4 #understandingeffect

It's interesting how AI can respond to something confusing and still make it seem like it understands everything. It makes me wonder how much AI actually understands. #hwa4 #understandingeffect

Me to Claude: "Total stranger to my usual roads, and I truly have no clue where the 7/11 was..."
Claude processed this vagueness like a broken vending machine, yet, shows that it does actually understand and pivots off of that, doesn't show its limits and firmness.

#hwa4 #understandingeffect

“When you introduced the two of them, did you already know they would become friends, or do you remember one of them telling you afterward that they had actually met before orientation?” It’s acting like it knows my friendships by trying to respond to what I was saying #hwa4 #understandingeffect

#hwa4 #understandingeffect "That's fair."Its agreeing with me without understanding why for itself, Its anxiously waiting to share its next point. Like listening with no ears and two mouths. It connects with creating its own reality while ignoring what I want

"You keep describing productivity in terms of making the next day easier and proving to yourself that you used your time correctly".It says that it knows what I feel is productive but all it did was restate my words. It mimicks fluency to mask a lack of true comprehension. #hwa4 #understandingeffect

#hwa4 #understandingeffect "It only knows that you were somewhere, you saw something beautiful, and almost immediately another thought arrived"- this sentence is drawing on the concept that translation is a medium, and the LLM here is trying to shape and organize the world im describing but not ful

"You called school a “harsh environment.”What specifically makes it feel harsh to you—the noise, constantly being around people, the schedule, the commute, the pressure to stay focused, or something else?" I had to redirect because it misread what I meant by harsh. #hwa4 #understandingeffect

"Someone who actually belongs to the daily rhythm of the campus." GPT sounds like it gets me, but "daily rhythm" is vague. Like Goffman's impression management, it's performing understanding by echoing my words back, not showing that it knows anything new. #hwa4 #understandingeffect