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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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> So if you’re a manager onboarding a new employee, Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome email. If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't, rather than throwing some ML generated drivel as the first impression a new hire gets of your management. The direction this is going in is so focused on automating away the hassle of email, with the end s…

Are you a new employee? Not sure how to reply to your welcome email your Manager sent?

Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome reply email.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#13
post #5

Can't wait for Google to add ChatGPT-like features to Chrome and their suite of Web Apps so I can finally ditch Microsoft Edge with it's ChatGPT integration. The UI of Edge is god awful. It has the same issue as Explorer in Windows where Microsoft thinks showing you all UI buttons and other UI elements at once is a great idea. Microsoft can't make compelling consumer facing products to save their life.

What features are you looking/hoping for in a ChatGPT-like integration with Google web apps?

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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post #5

Can't wait for Google to add ChatGPT-like features to Chrome and their suite of Web Apps so I can finally ditch Microsoft Edge with it's ChatGPT integration. The UI of Edge is god awful. It has the same issue as Explorer in Windows where Microsoft thinks showing you all UI buttons and other UI elements at once is a great idea. Microsoft can't make compelling consumer facing products to save their life.

I actually liked Edge and was happy to move away from Chrome. Then they started injecting their content into web pages. And then some shopping feature. I hate seeing the "You can now add extensions from the Chrome..." banner when I'm logged in the Chrome web store. It won't go away even after I closed it multiple times.

I started using Brave.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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It's interesting that the example for using an AI to write documents is a job description. It is uniquely suited to the AI because in real life, we've been copy-pasta-ing them for decades. It's also a place where there is some level of legal peril - a job description with material inaccuracies or discriminatory language creates lawsuits.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#16
post #4

> So if you’re a manager onboarding a new employee, Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome email. If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't, rather than throwing some ML generated drivel as the first impression a new hire gets of your management. The direction this is going in is so focused on automating away the hassle of email, with the end s…

This. One million times this.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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post #4

> So if you’re a manager onboarding a new employee, Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome email. If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't, rather than throwing some ML generated drivel as the first impression a new hire gets of your management. The direction this is going in is so focused on automating away the hassle of email, with the end s…

Imagine someone made a slight mistake and receive: “Welcome to Google [Employee name] it’s nice to meet you

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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post #17
post #4

> So if you’re a manager onboarding a new employee, Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome email. If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't, rather than throwing some ML generated drivel as the first impression a new hire gets of your management. The direction this is going in is so focused on automating away the hassle of email, with the end s…

Imagine someone made a slight mistake and receive: “Welcome to Google [Employee name] it’s nice to meet you

I've gotten templated recruiting emails with this bug. I wonder if an AI would spit this out, or something weirder as the name.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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> So if you’re a manager onboarding a new employee, Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome email. If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't, rather than throwing some ML generated drivel as the first impression a new hire gets of your management. The direction this is going in is so focused on automating away the hassle of email, with the end s…

Except they likely think it isn’t generated, like a lot of plagiarism

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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post #4

> So if you’re a manager onboarding a new employee, Workspace saves you the time and effort involved in writing that first welcome email. If you really can't be bothered to write the welcome email maybe just don't, rather than throwing some ML generated drivel as the first impression a new hire gets of your management. The direction this is going in is so focused on automating away the hassle of email, with the end s…

Not exactly. These are your feelings because you know of A.I. and would rather not receive a canned message BUT not all people are the same. There are many who would appreciate that email and welcome it. Ignorance is not bliss.
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