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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by sebzim4500 »

danpalmer wrote: post #50
newaccount2023 wrote: post #45

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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.

Have you actually used Bing Chat? While there are certainly some very funny conversations floating around where it goes off the rails, that isn't the normal behavior: It's pretty good in practice.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by shtack »

gavi wrote: post #33

When they say Augment your dataset with synthetic data on https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/announcing-palm-ap... do they mean something like this https://github.com/yizhongw/self-instruct ?

Possibly this: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230314005528/en/Gre...

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by Jack000 »

mabbo wrote: post #48

If 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?

Malls are already designed in a labyrinthine way so you pass by as many stores as possible.

Self driving cars might have set destinations that are cheaper to visit, or have free rides that are ad-supported, or recommend stops along your route.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by sebzim4500 »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #25
AbrahamParangi wrote: post #8

It’s notable that at multiple points they sell this service as safe - “easy and safe” - “all supported by robust safety tools” when the only things users really care about are quality, latency, and cost. Not sure where their head is at but unless they are oriented around these three things they’re never going to catch up.

> Not sure where their head is at but unless they are oriented around these three things they’re never going to catch up. But ChatGPT is doing exactly the same. There's more energy spent trying to manipulate the output to be politically correct than actual energy spent making the AI more powerful.

I doubt that's true, they just talk about it more because everything else is kind of a trade secret.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by ReptileMan »

> and at Google, we’ve been responsibly developing large language models so we can safely bring them to our products

So you are getting a gelding. I really miss the old SV - make it fun and powerful.

Usually the most interesting things come out of unsanctioned uses of technology.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by noduerme »

topicseed wrote: post #61
noduerme wrote: post #29

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We're so fucked. Everyone will be AI spambots. You'll never know if you're talking to a human again.

Indeed, even with content... Somebody with ChatGPT and Grammarly can produce a humongous amount of content these days, and it will read really well to the average Joe.

Ah, but the joke's on them, cause the average Joe doesn't read anymore.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by skidd0 »

paganel wrote: post #53
phphphphp wrote: post #47

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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?

As a client, using the self-checkout is (usually) a choice I get to make. I choose to use the self-checkout because it is often faster than waiting in a line. I am thankful for the opportunity to put in my own effort in exchange for faster completion and reduced prices.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by avereveard »

neap24 wrote: post #68
shapefrog wrote: post #11

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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.

Are you a manager whose new hire just sent a reply to your AI generated welcome email? Don’t have time to read it? Workspace auto-hides the text and just shows you a simple three-word summary.

premium version will show the manager just the prompt without the blurb.

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Post by Swizec »

indymike wrote: post #66
zamnos wrote: post #56

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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.

Why is meeting with direct reports needed every other week?

Less frequent than that and people start forgetting the gripes and inconveniences they need help with.

Managers are supposed to work on the system, at least in theory. 1on1’s are for the manager like server metrics are for the SRE. An early warning system of future problems. Ideally you can fix issues before the problem blows up into an alarm.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by avereveard »

mabbo wrote: post #48

If 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?

> detours through pretty places

heck I might like that service, if optional

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