Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.
For my text editor, KeenWrite[1], 42% of users answered that they'd use AI. Since the majority don't want it, no AI has been added. [1]: https://keenwrite.com/
Why not just make it opt-in? Seems bad to leave the desires of nearly half your users unaddressed. As long as you're not shoehorning in features or making them unavoidable or the central focus, the only people who'd take issue would be zealot types who want to control other people's choices.
Conversely, a no-AI ethos is one that will very likely need to be walked back at some point in the future for tech products. AI isn't going anywhere, so finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far better long term strategy. For now while it's new and scary and there's a lack of regulation and governance and ethical considerations - I can see why an anti-AI stance is popular, but it's…
The internet has been around for quite a while now, and is absolutely critical for a lot of applications. Most people would never give up the internet. Yet there are still many applications without explicit mandatory internet tie-ins like cloud sync. In fact, "stores data locally" and "won't disappear with zero notice" are valuable features to many people! Just because AI is a no-brainer must-have for some apps doesn…
I feel like the equivalent for the rise of the internet would be an explicitly anti-internet stance -- no website, no downloads, no online customer support, everything routed through snail mail, fax, and telephone (but no VoIP!) as an intentional ideological point.
Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.
> Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. In a normal office environment I would guess most people actually want more AI features. Most people aren’t passionate about hand writing their best TPS reports with carefully crafted prose. They want to get their work done as easily as possible at their job so they can go home on time.
Experience has shown that bad prose, grammar and orthograph has been accepted in business setting for the last 3 decades, basically since people stopped writing cards/letters and started communicating with sms and later instant messaging apps. Writing skills globally went downhill. The thing is: virtually nobody cares anymore.
What I see is rather management forcing employees to use AI, menacing them of bad yearly review if metric show they don't use them.
The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.
Absolute number of downloads inevitably goes up. Weekly downloads number doesn't.
Their point is that weekly downloads may have been on a constant rise for years due to a constant rise in popularity. It's not as constant as absolute number of downloads, but the point is that "breaking record" is still something that's likely happening frequently and doesn't need to be related to any statement they gave. They don't share any numbers, at least in the post.
i think that's a perfectly coherent and reasonable way for both these apps to work.
people don't want AI features leaking into their non-ai apps. I'm not an AI hater - I want my AI app to be able to read and write word docs, but when i decide to open up libreoffice i'm doing that because i want to write something myself, not use AI. i don't need my word processor to bundle an inferior version of what the ChatGPT can do for me.
Let's use AI to test the validity of an AI generated clickbait article. Fable 5.1 was presented with the following prompt to do research. > https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-n... states an interesting causality. Generate an artifact that tests this claim. Is it causal or coincidental. ie if libreoffice downloads have been increasing every release then it's possible to claim any recent feature…
I think it's not baked into codex, but codex has either been instructed to download it when asked to edit word docs/excel spreadsheets, or it picked it up during training.
from the thread last week, it seems to be installed by default on every mac install, possibly not on windows installs.
It's the tried and true headline method of "event 2 happened after event 1", implying a causal effect between the two, despite no evidence of such effect existing. Technically the headline is correct, in the same way that "Canada Tariffs $20b in US Goods After Amazon Plane Crash" is also correct.
LibreOffice breaks download records after Trump renames Lake Ontario to Lake America
Did that actually happen as something that appears on maps or did it just get ignored as senile rambling?