Are there actual results of the system for evaluation, or even any system at all? All "demos" on the site seem prewritten, and done by hand for all we know, and in all probability are.
A bit premature for HN?
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#32Do they have a solution to the (seemingly intractable) problem of people who only read up to the first question in an email, respond to that, and ignore the rest?
I find formatting can help. List each of your questions at the bottom of your emails, so they can go through them and answer them one by one. It's also harder for them to justify answering one question and ignoring the rest when you lay it out for them in one place.
Depending on the questions and how much the answers matter, it may be better to ask each one after they reply to the previous one, so they don't feel overwhelmed being asked all of it at once and put more thought into answering each one.
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#33I always get nervous when an AI/ML demo doesn’t let you try with your own input. It is fairly easy to curate a set of examples in any ML model that work really well. However, a lot of them, quickly fall apart when faced with diverse, real world data.
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#34Can it turn a well written email into a short list of facts? That seems more useful.
It looks like Axios is launching something like this. I asked and they want 6 digits a month - way to much for us so I haven't demo-ed so maybe it's not AI but more simple suggestions
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#35Is there an API for this, I'd happily pay for that.
I'd guess this is just a little bit of training data piped into GPT-3. And yes, it's possible to pay for access to that API.
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#36The fact that AI performs so well at "fluff" creation says far more about the lack of creativity shown by humans who usually create fluff than it does about the creativity of the AI.
Alternative view: "Soft" skills like writing are actually critical to the success of companies, but companies hiring practices and retention practices are so terribly broken, particularly in tech, that most can't seem to identify or retain people who have these skills.
So now they're resorting to an AI to try to replace non-technical skills because they've utterly failed at identifying value in human beings.
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#37Is this just a GPT-3 demo applied to writing emails? Is there anything original about it that GPT-3 can't do out of the box?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The example seems to indicate it could create issues. It's conjuring, for example "after weeks of hard work" from thin air. There's nothing in the input to suggest that phrase makes contextual sense. Though perhaps the example isn't a real world one.
> It's conjuring, for example "after weeks of hard work" from thin air. I think this is not that dissimilar from a human writer. Recruiter email's come to mind as an example of this as well.
Yeah, but what if I'm sending an email to say that I finished a big project the recipient asked me to work on a few days ago? I don't want my email to say I've been working for weeks when the reader knows that's not true.
Maybe I'm missing the intended use case for this tool?
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#39This is an interesting interface for a sophisticated machine learning model. The user input is a moderately structured prompt (a line-delimited list of facts) and the output is text crafted for a particular medium (email). This could be extended to support output for other mediums, such as Blog posts or social media updates. It does drive me slightly crazy that this system JUST INJECTS NOISE. You provide it with conc…
Put it is way, it might make it easier to write the reverse system that convert a (machine generated) noisy input text to a succinct list of facts :).
Sounds like a way to make a text based GAN :)
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#40Maybe I'm weird, but I kinda prefer the original "short list of facts". In general I prefer email to be short and direct.
Step zero of writing is to know your audience. Short lists of facts for some, narrative "fluff" for others.