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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by sf_rob »

IanCal wrote: post #94

> Starting today, we’re making an efficient model available in terms of size and capabilities, Excellent! goes through the terrible UI of google cloud console Nothing there. I see it's not actually today it's a sometime soon with some people in a private preview. Any info on what model size they're actually releasing? Time to try the demo they showed in google docs. > Now, we’re excited to take the next step and brin…

I'm looking forward to seeing some of this make its way to general release, but I'd guess that this post is in the vein of their hurried initial press response to Chat GPT.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by ukuina »

alphabetting wrote: post #35
nabakin wrote: post #21

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Just like the BARD announcement in response to MSFT Sydney. They're trying to keep their stock prices from dipping

I don't think that timeline is correct. MSFT did a surprise announcement of Bing chat the day before Google's planned announcement of Bard. https://twitter.com/xlr8harder/status/1622849293571817472

But Google's planned announcement was, err, announced, after the Bing Chat screenshots leaked the week before.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by Swizec »

indymike wrote: post #90
Swizec wrote: post #79

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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 conve…

Ok sure but there’s more to people than raw output numbers. Where do you get info on how they’re doing as people? Whether they’re pulling 12 hour days and that’s why the output looks good or they’re happy as a clam living their best life and that’s why output is great?

Sometimes you gotta kick people to go take a vacation lest their mind/body takes an unplanned vacation for them. Even if the raw numbers are looking great. You’d prefer to have a planned outage wouldn’t you?

And hey, if you don’t need a full hour, it’s okay to make 1on1s shorter! Few people will complain about getting more time back in their lives.

But be warned: The good stuff usually comes out 5min before the end of a meeting when an employee says ”Oh yeah one more thing that’s been on my mind …”. It takes time to relax into that area of concern that’s a little scary to bring up.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#104

Post by la64710 »

neap24 wrote: post #65
elicash wrote: post #27

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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.

And you don’t need only the best to run a business.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#105

Post by aabhay »

agos wrote: post #98
topicseed wrote: post #12

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.

is this going to be like Google Duplex, i.e. mostly forgotten, then unceremoniously shut down?

This is worse — terrified, anxious make-work to appease insecure management with “apps” for AI

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by Workaccount2 »

topicseed wrote: post #12

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.

My view of the future has completely collapsed over the last 6mos-1year. I desperately don't want to live in a world where everything about everyone is fake and augmented. Where everything you look at and interact with is just AI generated or AI controlled.

I can't see how AI isn't going to make the problem of falling social interaction 1000x worse.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by gpderetta »

noduerme wrote: post #42
Buttons840 wrote: post #32

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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...

AIs of course.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by pixl97 »

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?

This is nearly getting to the point of "don't use shovel's, think of all the ditch diggers we'll put out of work"

I find places with scan as you shop apps way better than waiting in a checkout line. I get a running total of what I have in the cart, and when I'm done, I just leave without a line.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by paxys »

neap24 wrote: post #65
elicash wrote: post #27

Earlier 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.

The best ones hide it well enough.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

#110

Post by balls187 »

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…

I ask all new hires to ghost write a short intro.

They would essentially tell me some facts that I would then re-write for them, so why not just use their own words.

If they want to use generative AI, that’s on them.

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