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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by nashashmi »

jon-wood wrote: 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…

We are going to hear a lot more of this kind of behavior from super talented and experienced people.

But for the less experienced, AI is a starting point. And depending on the kind of person you are, the kind of upbringing you have, and the kind of education you got, you will be motivated to edit and improve what the AI gives you.

The other thing I think this will help improve upon are those idiots and scumbags who give commands that are not very well thought out and then yell at talented people for not following instruction because they filled in the blanks with their own ideas. Giving it to an AI will show ridiculous their commands were. (sorry, end rant)

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by valine »

diimdeep wrote: post #24

First reaction: mouthful spam generator built right into gmail[0], way to go google. [0] https://youtu.be/6DaJVZBXETE?t=33

Reminds me of the google april fools prank in 2009 where they announced gmail would be able to read and respond to emails for you.

http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/gmail_autopilot

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by paganel »

phphphphp wrote: post #47
reaperducer wrote: post #44

Earlier 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. 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.

Please don't use the checkout, why should corporations worth billions and tens of billions (I guess that's what Walmart is worth) get to outsource some of their work onto their clients?

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by bluelightning2k »

Simon321 wrote: post #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

I don't know that catch-up is entirely fair.

My understanding is that Google has always been ahead (at least until recently) - but the difference is that one of their competitors ships.

OpenAI has a bias to action. DeepMind has a bias to grand-challenge stunts. Google has a bias to perpetual validation.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by zamnos »

Buttons840 wrote: post #37
jon-wood wrote: 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.

Fortunately for middle and line managers, the vaunted 1:1 hasn't been automated yet, nor does it scale, so the technology doesn't allow managers to have more than, say, 60 direct report effectively. Meeting with each of them for 1 hour every other week only leaves 20 hours every other week for work that isn't a 1:1. I think middle management will be safe for a little while longer.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by IMTDb »

Buttons840 wrote: post #37
jon-wood wrote: 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.

And the good middle manager (yes, they exist ! and yes, they are useful !) thinks "the not very useful part of my job can be automated, yay more time for the actually interesting/useful thing !"

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by zamnos »

phphphphp wrote: post #47
reaperducer wrote: post #44

Earlier 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. 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.

You mean to tell me that my joke that I should get the item for free when it doesn't ring up; you mean to tell me I'm not hilarious and that the cashier's heard it before?
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