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Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by pseudalopex »

brabel wrote: post #381
b112 wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So far, I haven't seen a useful application of LLMs. So far. I've seen things that are wildly hobbled, and wildly inaccurate. I've seen endless companies running around, trying to improve on things. I've seen people looking in wonder at LLMs making mistakes 2 year olds don't. Most LLM usage seems to be in two categories. Replace people's jobs with wildly inaccurate and massively broken output, or trick people into do…

> So far, I haven't seen a useful application of LLMs. So far. What?! Whole industries have been changed already due to products based on them. I don't think there's a single developer who is not using AI to get help while coding, and if you aren't, sorry but you're just missing out, it's not perfect but it doesn't need to be. It just needs to be better than StackOverflow and googling around for the docs or how to do…

> I don't think there's a single developer who is not using AI to get help while coding

You are in a bubble.

> It just needs to be better than StackOverflow and googling around for the docs or how to do things and ending up in dubious sites, and it absolutely is.

Subjectively. Not absolutely.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by MarioMan »

atoav wrote: post #187

I use catchall email addresses. If your service is called foobar.com I will register at your place with foobar.com@mydomain.com If I ever receive spam addressed to foobar.com@mydomain.com that is unrelated to your service I know you leaked or abused my data. Result: you will get a DSGVO complaint and I filter all emails addressed to this address from my inbox. The good thing about using a catchall email address is th…

While some companies filter against this, most email services support plus addressing to accomplish the same thing. You can register under myemail+foobar.com@gmail.com, for instance, and all emails will still be delivered to myemail@gmail.com

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients-in-exc...

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by Joker_vD »

bowsamic wrote: post #142
Joker_vD wrote: post #35

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Because maybe, just maybe — those people will find some other jobs, and those jobs will be more socially beneficial this time? One can dream.

“maybe, just maybe” “One can dream.” You’ve either used these sarcastically, or accurately. I think you’ve done the former, but the truth is the latter.

I am absolutely serious. Any employment has opportunity costs: a person who writes and sends out cold call spam e-mail for 8 hours a day is a person who could be spending those 8 hours on something else, but isn't. Yes, switching jobs is not very easy, and it's stressful but humans, thankfully, are not (yet) a species of highly-specialized individuals, with distinct morphological differences that heavily determine the jobs they potentially can or can not do.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by bamboozled »

thrance wrote: post #373
ossyrial wrote: post #238

The author links to the somewhat dystopian blog where the email sender is quite proud of their work. Their words (or perhaps that of an LLM): > Could an AI agent craft compelling emails that would capture people's attention and drive engagement, all while maintaining a level of personalization that feels human? I decided to find out. > The real hurdle was ensuring the emails seemed genuinely personalized and not spam…

I remember seeing a talk from Jonathan Blow where he made a comparison: in the 1960s top engineers worked for NASA and put a man on the moon in a decade, basically doing computations by hand. Today, we have super advanced computers and tech companies enjoy 100× times more of the top engineers than NASA ever had, and they are all working toward making you click on ads more.

It’s as if real issues like climate change aren’t a thing that needs solving…

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by tharkun__ »

squigz wrote: post #379
jacobgkau wrote: post #372

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The irony is that there seems to be overlap between the two groups-- e.g. highly educated tech workers.

Is there? How are you making that determination?

I would tend to agree with them even without actual data. Just probabilistically there is likely some overlap.

Whether there's enough for calling it irony is probably a different question.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by sxv »

jacobgkau wrote: post #372
squigz wrote: post #337

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There's no irony or contradiction here. Some people are worried about climate change. Some aren't. Silly, yes, but I don't see the irony.

The irony is that there seems to be overlap between the two groups-- e.g. highly educated tech workers.

i.e. investment bankers in hoodies

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by squigz »

tharkun__ wrote: post #406
squigz wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there? How are you making that determination?

I would tend to agree with them even without actual data. Just probabilistically there is likely some overlap. Whether there's enough for calling it irony is probably a different question.

Well fair enough.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by neom »

You know, I've done startups for over 20 years now. Operated almost all the orgs, but spent the most time in go to market/marketing. I'm building an incubator/accelerator thing in Canada and I'm starting it from scratch, so it's basically doing another startup (something I swore I'd never do, fml).

Hadn't touched marketing for ~5 years, as I said I know the org well so I thought it will take me about a month to get the next 6 months of marketing built and automated. How wrong was I. 7 days later, the full marketing org is running, at a decent scale, on autopilot, for a year, and I don't know if/when I'd need to hire someone into marketing.

Marketing has not fundamentally changed, but it's changed such that one individual could fully operate the fundamentals. Personally I love it, I'm sure others are going nuts.

Re: I Received an AI Email

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Post by bowsamic »

Joker_vD wrote: post #404
bowsamic wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“maybe, just maybe” “One can dream.” You’ve either used these sarcastically, or accurately. I think you’ve done the former, but the truth is the latter.

I am absolutely serious. Any employment has opportunity costs: a person who writes and sends out cold call spam e-mail for 8 hours a day is a person who could be spending those 8 hours on something else, but isn't. Yes, switching jobs is not very easy, and it's stressful but humans, thankfully, are not (yet) a species of highly-specialized individuals, with distinct morphological differences that heavily determine th…

So I was right, you did use it sarcastically, since you are still naive
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