(this is from the original Blade Runner, for anyone wondering)

I love this being quoted here because while it superficially seems that this interaction is interacting with an AI in a conversational way, it shows tool use that is at the opposite end of what interacting with modern AI tends to be like/what AI marketing wants it to be.

In this scene:

- the user is guiding the tool step by step to a desired outcome, rather than giving a broad vague result that the tool gets to arbitrarily

- the user knows intimately the specific technical capabilities of the tool

- every command is phrased to be unambiguous and lead to a deterministic result

Imagine if instead all of the above, Deckard just gave a broad request, eg “can you help me find who the killer is by analyzing this picture”?