Rethinking Internet Communication Through LLMs: How Close Are We?

TL;DR

This paper explores a novel Internet communication architecture where users interact with Large Language Models (LLMs) capturing user cognition, assessing current feasibility and future research directions.

Contribution

It proposes a new architecture for LLM-based communication and evaluates its current technical viability.

Findings

Assessment of current LLM capabilities for communication

Identification of key technical challenges

Discussion of future research directions

Abstract

In this paper, we rethink the way that communication among users over the Internet, one of the fundamental outcomes of the Internet evolution, takes place. Instead of users communicating directly over the Internet, we explore an architecture that enables users to communicate with (query) Large Language Models (LLMs) that capture the cognition of users on the other end of the communication channel. We present an architecture to achieve such LLM-based communication and we perform a reality check to assess how close we are today to realizing such a communication architecture from a technical point of view. Finally, we discuss several research challenges and identify interesting directions for future research.