Thank you open AI for breaking the dam on an arms race we could have benefited immensely from five years ago.
AI for developers and Google Workspace
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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#42This 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 soo…
We're pretty close to outsourcing the customers' decision-making to AI already. Of course, when the customers all lose their jobs, I'm not sure who's going to be buying anything...
Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#43> 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…
That example is so bad, I'm not entirely sure some writer having a bad day didn't put it in as a cynical joke.
Or are they working in an environment so steeped in insincerity that they don't even know what being genuine is, or that one of the most important things for a manager to do with things like a "welcome" is to be setting the tone.
Nothing says welcome, and bring your genuine self, and trust colleagues, and feel intellectual safety, and invest in being a part of the team that's investing in you... than a new hire's manager can't even be bothered to say welcome themselves, and offloads it to a chatbot button instead.
OTOH, this fits the sociopathic culture you'd expect, when you look at their hazing rituals, compensation levels, and promotion criteria. It just doesn't fit the culture some of us techies envisioned when that company was started.
Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#44> 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.
The middle manager thinks, "the time and effort I spend on my job can be automated, yay!", never considering the second order effects.
This is why when a cashier at the supermarket tells me that instead of waiting in line I can use the self check-out lanes, I tell her "I don't want to help a robot take away your job."
Usually they don't understand. But sometimes you can see them start to think about what's happening.
Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#45Can'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.
such a weird take...ChatGPT is thus far just an incredible demo
you've actually switched browsers to have access to it? why???
Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#46Does anyone have a `curl` that hits the palm API or does it not really exist yet?
I am pretty sure it exists, but not for you. "Select developers can access the PaLM API ... in Private Preview today, and stay tuned for our waitlist soon".
Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
The middle manager thinks, "the time and effort I spend on my job can be automated, yay!", never considering the second order effects.
The middle manager thinks, "the time and effort I spend on my job can be automated, yay!", never considering the second order effects. This is why when a cashier at the supermarket tells me that instead of waiting in line I can use the self check-out lanes, I tell her "I don't want to help a robot take away your job." Usually they don't understand. But sometimes you can see them start to think about what's happening.
The cashier would rather you leave them in peace than hit them with the same tiresome self-congratulatory remark they hear day in day out. Please use the self checkouts instead.
Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#48If I'm following this all here...
We're going to have AI help us generate long pieces of text from very small blurbs of information.
Then the reader is going to have AI read the long pieces of text, and condense it down into just small blurbs of information.
Will my self-driving car also take unneeded detours through pretty places, making it take longer to get where I'm going?
Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#49This 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.
> produced by an algorithm
This is a very grey area. A prompt, for example, could be copyright. An image you create by drawing a base layer and having the AI fill the details in could be copyright as well.
The government copyright office doesn't really decide these things. Courts do.
Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace
#50Can'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.
such a weird take...ChatGPT is thus far just an incredible demo you've actually switched browsers to have access to it? why???
It sounds like it's Bing Chat, not ChatGPT. They are fairly different – ChatGPT being fairly mature but heavyweight, and Bing Chat being truly unhinged.
But yeah, Bing Chat is only available in Edge.