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.

翻译：本文重新审视了互联网演进过程中用户间通信这一核心功能的实现方式。我们不采用用户直接在互联网上通信的传统模式，而是探索一种新型架构——用户通过交互（查询）大型语言模型（LLM）实现通信，其中LLM承载着通信另一端用户的认知特征。我们提出了实现这种基于LLM的通信架构，并从技术角度进行了现实性评估，以衡量当前实现该通信架构的可行性。最后，我们讨论了若干研究挑战，并指明了未来值得探索的研究方向。