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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#31
Wow! Looks like they're determined to catch up!

They're going to open up PaLM & an image generation model (imagen?) through Google Cloud. It looks incredibly easy to finetune PaLM in their environment:

Video (Build, tune, and deploy foundation models with Vertex AI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg2yHIKQ7oM

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#32

This video published just now is incredible — https://youtu.be/6DaJVZBXETE Not sure though if it's mostly stuff that's being beta tested as we speak, or stuff that's not even built at all as of yet.

The video is very focused on first order effects. A middle manager automates all their work by writing a few sentences; they produce a "brief" by giving a one sentence input to the AI, doubtless imagining that other humans will carefully read their brief, quietly nodding to themselves and considering every sentence, with passing thoughts about how competent the middle manager is. In truth, the middle manager will soon be replaced by an AI, and the lovely looking briefs produced by the AI will only be consumed by other AIs.

Another part shows the AI creating personalized marketing messages. For a brief time they will work, and then every company will be producing them by the millions, and then customers will stop reading emails at all -- again, the AIs will be writing messages consumed by other AIs.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#34
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…

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.

For just $3.99 per month, we can reply also to all the subsequent emails from your manager within 30 minutes! Just give us access to your private inbox and the emails will include your own personal style.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#35
post #21

Oh what's that? Microsoft has a future of work event in a couple of days? Better pre-empt it. "Available for select developers. Stay tuned for the waitlist soon" When the order to pre-empt comes too quick to get your waitlist landing page approved.

Just like the BARD announcement in response to MSFT Sydney. They're trying to keep their stock prices from dipping

I don't think that timeline is correct. MSFT did a surprise announcement of Bing chat the day before Google's planned announcement of Bard.

https://twitter.com/xlr8harder/status/1622849293571817472

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#36
This is an extinction event for the low hanging fruit ideas for the so-called AI startups.

Again, this maybe bad timing since GPT-4 will (probably) gate crash Google's announcements this week, hence why Google has done this today.

But for now, AI copyrighters are going to be destroyed, quickly by the same tech giants: Microsoft (OpenAI), Google, and possibly Meta.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#37
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…

The middle manager thinks, "the time and effort I spend on my job can be automated, yay!", never considering the second order effects.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#40
post #36

This is an extinction event for the low hanging fruit ideas for the so-called AI startups. Again, this maybe bad timing since GPT-4 will (probably) gate crash Google's announcements this week, hence why Google has done this today. But for now, AI copyrighters are going to be destroyed, quickly by the same tech giants: Microsoft (OpenAI), Google, and possibly Meta.

Speaking of copyright, remember that content produced by an algorithm cannot be copyrighted. We've already seen this play out with stable diffusion. Also, the government copyright office is surely unprepared for the coming tsunami.
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