Kind of would like "train gmail on all of my sent emails and generate replies in my own sarcastic / self deprecating style". If the request is from a certain family member make sure you reply with an appropriate level of delay to know that they are not your top priority. Inject an occasional reply with an uncharacteristic amount of emotion and sensitivity to show that you aren't completely robotic and devoid of humanity.
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#12Now what we need is similar that can engage spammers and waste as much of their time as possible.
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#13My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
100%, it just contributes to the digital landfill that is our inboxes. Good emails should be written like pseudo code, I suspect this will happen or emails will finally die for something that provides this type of capability of exchanging information in order to facilitate decision making.
Personally, I switched to voice messages (via WhatsApp or Slack). It doesn't work for everything, but... if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. If it requires visual aid – Loom.
The only problem with audio/Loom messages is that it is not easily indexable, but that's a tooling problem that can be easily solved.
I rarely use email (I may ask someone to compose an email for me). In this setup, I do see value if I had a Slack bot that I could say to "ask lawyers for an update on X". But even then, people would immediately know that the email came not from "me"...
Personally, I'd like to see more tooling around
* using AI to auto-polish video/audio communication, e.g. remove long pauses, skip filler words, etc.
* summarizing video/audio/text communication into bullet points of intel and actions
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#14After "sorry, that was the autocorrect", we will have "sorry, that was the AI's response"
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#15Kind of would like "train gmail on all of my sent emails and generate replies in my own sarcastic / self deprecating style". If the request is from a certain family member make sure you reply with an appropriate level of delay to know that they are not your top priority. Inject an occasional reply with an uncharacteristic amount of emotion and sensitivity to show that you aren't completely robotic and devoid of human…
Sounds a lot like Black Mirror. You could even keep it turned on after you die!
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#16My problem with this is that it contributes to the broken culture of email. – Wanna go for coffee? – January is busy. After? is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.
You’re right.
Secondary point, if you can’t make time to have coffee for someone for an entire month, it probably isn’t important enough to do, ever.
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#17Seems very valuable for customer support emails. You could easily charge $50/month for this in that market.
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#18Nice idea but not feasible for me right now, for the sole reason that now my email content ends up in the hands of OpenAI.
Can't wait to see the same project using their own servers with their own text prediction models or allowing us to set up one at home!
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
100%, it just contributes to the digital landfill that is our inboxes. Good emails should be written like pseudo code, I suspect this will happen or emails will finally die for something that provides this type of capability of exchanging information in order to facilitate decision making.
Personally, I switched to voice messages (via WhatsApp or Slack). It doesn't work for everything, but... if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. If it requires visual aid – Loom. The only problem with audio/Loom messages is that it is not easily indexable, but that's a tooling problem that can be easily solved. I rarely use email (I may ask someone to compose an emai…
I think the future of work communication is going to be something similar to what these guys are doing https://www.volleyapp.com/ I don't Volley is there yet (or even close), but the concept is on the right path: async video/audio/3D stitched into a coherent narrative thanks to AI.
Input and high quality audio is the biggest barrier at the moment.
When I say input, I mean that we need something similar to sousveillance tech that can contribute to conversation without me actively switching context. Just like we would in a real-world conversation.
When I say audio, I mean that no one wants to listen poorly articulated voice messages that are hard to follow. We need tech that can make each of us sound smart.
It will happen. Few interesting startups in this space.
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#20Here's another one is this rapidly growing space: https://rapidreply.ai