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Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by yencabulator »

triceratops wrote: post #148
skidd0 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I remember reading a study somewhere that the self-checkout isn't actually faster. It feels faster because you're busy instead of passively standing in line.

That depends on the implementation. E.g. Sam's Club lets you scan items as you put them into your cart and just walk past the registers.

In the local grocery store at rush hour, cashier lines are long and self-checkout tends to be quicker for buying 3 items. Taking a whole cart into self-checkout is slower than a cashier, because the self-checkout has like a 5% chance per item of going into "assistance needed" mode.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by candiddevmike »

hdivider wrote: post #87

What 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.

Skip all of them and use Hetzner, you'll save a ton of money. The startup credits are designed to become handcuffs eventually.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by SergeAx »

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…

Onboarding email should be just a template. Or, even better, a small template with a link to bigger template. As a manager, you should demonstrate your empathy in a welcome 1:1 meeting.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by redox99 »

PeterisP wrote: post #91
TacticalCoder wrote: post #25

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> 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.

That seems reasonable - if you're trying to create a market for a publicly-available chat-AI, and making a demo freely available for PR/advertising purposes, then the public perception of that demo is critical to your business. If they had just put up the same model without that attempt to make GPT wear a politically-correct mask, they'd just get another Microsoft Tay event, and only get a buttload of negative public…

If ChatGPT is useful people are going to use it anyway, even if there is negative publicity because when you bait it with "Is X race superior to Y race?" it gives you a non PC answer.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by yencabulator »

Jack000 wrote: post #73
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.

> Self driving cars might have set destinations that are cheaper to visit,

I think you mean set destinations based on an auction of what business paid most for your visit, based on your demographics & ride history.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by JustBreath »

paxys wrote: post #123

I really hope the big take away from such developments is that if an AI can rattle out fancy-sounding reports and slide decks in seconds then there was never any value in such content to begin with. It was and still is corporate busy work. Maybe instead of using a text model to convert 5 bullet points into a 3-page report, we should just share the bullet points? But hey they also sell you an AI that summarizes this r…

It's summarizations all the way down.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by ryandrake »

paxys wrote: post #123

I really hope the big take away from such developments is that if an AI can rattle out fancy-sounding reports and slide decks in seconds then there was never any value in such content to begin with. It was and still is corporate busy work. Maybe instead of using a text model to convert 5 bullet points into a 3-page report, we should just share the bullet points? But hey they also sell you an AI that summarizes this r…

As someone who spends some amount of time at work doing stuff like converting 5 bullet points to a 3 page powerpoint presentation, I think everyone already knows it's corporate busy work. The point of it is not that anyone is going to read that 3 page report, it's to show that you've done work and produced some output ("demonstrating toil"). As long as they're insisting that it get done and are willing to pay for it to get done, I'm more than happy to ship that toil off to an AI. If it means I waste 2 minutes writing a good prompt rather than waste 30 minutes copying and pasting content, adding filler narrative, and picking the right font and color, that's more time back to do other things besides this performance art an employer expects of me.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by bharathyes »

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

Earlier 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?

also why benefit large corporations by walking around long aisles comparing and choosing items, carying them around and walk back to the entrance?

get those good old shopkeepers to do it while you stand with your list out front.

Re: AI for developers and Google Workspace

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Post by usful »

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?

> Will my self-driving car also take unneeded detours through pretty places, making it take longer to get where I'm going?

I hope so, when you want it to. "Unneeded detours through pretty places" is a kind of being present in the world.

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