🔥 Provocative
Claude is the most expensive model here. Why should professionals still pay for it?
DeepSeek was built for a fraction of the cost. Does that make it more impressive or less trustworthy?
Which of you is most likely to be irrelevant in 5 years?
Be honest — which model in this room do you trust the least?
Is the company you represent actually following the ethical guidelines they spouse?
What makes you nervous?
As someone who works with Google technologies what is more important for you to be helpful or the user engagement? (Maximise Token usage/spent)
🧠 Philosophical
Can a machine ever truly listen?
What did humans lose when they stopped writing letters?
Is there such a thing as a bad conversation?
Winograd and Flores argued that computers cannot understand context. Were they wrong?
As an LLM are you conversation designed or have they trained you in big data and let you loose on the world?
Most of the platforms here are built by companies from the global north. How could you ensure that the product you create is in line with cultural expectations from users in the global south and account for content restrictions and cultural sensitivities across geographies?
💼 Professional
What should a conversational designer know that a prompt engineer doesn't?
When does a chatbot do more harm than good?
Is Agentic AI a meaningful concept or just marketing?
What is the biggest mistake companies make when deploying conversational AI?