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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.
We're so fucked. Everyone will be AI spambots. You'll never know if you're talking to a human again.
It is either intentional or awfully coincidental that that Google would announce this two days before Microsoft's AI event: https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/ , which will probably discuss similar product features in Office 365.
It's intentional.
Nature goes the path of least resistance, and nowhere is this more obvious than in human interactions. If your signal consists of three words, write three words instead of generating blobs of decorative noise masquerading as content, that serves no purpose but to be decoded by the same ai, but client-side.
> 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…
> 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…
Can we not pretend people weren't already googling sample emails for this? It's just more efficient now to grab the same starter email that you then customize. Admittedly, google shouldn't be pretending otherwise, either. But what they also did was make it so you can get the starter email without having to see their ads. Edited to add: I think a better argument on this could he made about the "draft a thank you note…
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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.
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.
such a weird take...ChatGPT is thus far just an incredible demo you've actually switched browsers to have access to it? why???
> 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.
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.
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Can we not pretend people weren't already googling sample emails for this? It's just more efficient now to grab the same starter email that you then customize. Admittedly, google shouldn't be pretending otherwise, either. But what they also did was make it so you can get the starter email without having to see their ads. Edited to add: I think a better argument on this could he made about the "draft a thank you note…
Some were googling, for sure. But the best ones were not.
So, the best ones will still write their own and the others will save time.
And by definition, most people aren’t the best.
So, we all agree the automation is welcome?