So humans are going to enter bullet points, and the AI will generate prose. Then the human on the other end will use an AI to extract bullet points from the prose.
I hope we realize how insanely stupid this is soon.
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#82If 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?
Will my self-driving car
I guess that depends if it's _your_ self-driving car or Google/Uber/Teslas self-driving car that they're letting you use. It might even be so that the physical car is yours, but the self-driving software is licensed and controlled by a third party.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
What's important to me is my time. I don't care whether it's spent scanning things myself or waiting in line for someone else to scan them. I also don't care about punishing Walmart, so whether they "get to" do something is totally uninteresting to me.
I just want to pay for my items and get out of the store, in whatever way works.
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#84If 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?
Google is also effectively giving up on Search if they are willing to help people generate more SEO spam at scale by directly providing AI text generation in Docs. OpenAI/Microsoft shook them up so hard that they are doing stuff that is most likely self-destructive long term
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#85> 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…
Personally never had to Google to help me write the body of an email, if I had to do that, I probably wouldn't have sent the email to begin with.
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#86It’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 get what you're saying here and agree, but there is no world in which openai exists as a continuing concern without making their product overly PC. Remember that their model was trained on a broad swath of the Internet, warts and all. They can either spend the effort making it aligned with the current thing up front, or they can rush to do it after the model outputs something spicy and they have to deal with the resulting PR shitstorm, outrage baiting hit pieces, and otherwise distractions.
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#87What I find regrettable is how GCP's startup program seems to be entirely geared towards VC-fuelled startups for the higher tiers.
Compare with Microsoft for Startups, which isn't seen as hip and edgy but can get you like $5k+$25k in Azure credits (and some OpenAI credits) without having to go the VC route.
Seems more entrepreneurial to me. Venture-backed is just not the right path for everyone.
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#88So humans are going to enter bullet points, and the AI will generate prose. Then the human on the other end will use an AI to extract bullet points from the prose. I hope we realize how insanely stupid this is soon.
But it's a new feature and big tech has ran out of ideas?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Does it matter to you the extent to which an original template is then transformed?
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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.
> 1on1’s are for the manager like server metrics are for the SRE.
I'm not sure that is accurate. As a manager, I have a bunch of production metrics on my people. I can tell who's getting work done, who isn't, who has high defect rates in their work, who makes fewer defects, who is positive ROI, and who is not paying their keep. Where the one on ones are useful is when they are informed by the metrics, and those conversations don't take anywhere near one hour every two weeks. They take 10 minutes - 15 minutes, max.