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Just waiting for google to have a superior overall AI, but so phenomenally fucking up the product launch that it just fades into obscurity while getting eclipsed by its competitors. Really I can't think of anything more google than that. No idea why shareholders still tolerate their crap.
Must be devastating for the marketing team at Google to have their new product Kleenex'd like this.
Lol I had the same thought reading that headline. I wonder if the author even realizes that not all generative AI is ChatGPT (probably not because the bar for 'tech journalist' seems to be quite low).
Both did the jobs they’re supposed to be doing. The article writer knew what they were talking about, and the headline writer knew how to get clicks.
First ChatGPT request - "Why can't my Google Workspace account do everything my @gmail account can?"
I wonder if this sort of email assistant could someday automate the process of sending an EECB. Back in the days before Twitter and HN, we had to escalate support cases by figuring out the format that a company used to assign its internal email addresses, and forwarding a polite inquiry to as many high-ranking executives as we could find. It would be nice if an AI assistant could craft such messages and find appropri…
+ Ingest a bunch of fine tuning data (previous emails)
+ Output a bunch of new but just rewritten output
+ It only has to be "mostly right" most of the time
Eg, send the top 100 likely emails and we're happy if 20-30 of them land.
On the other hand what I just described is about to be in the hands of every spammer... so there is that.
Just waiting for google to have a superior overall AI, but so phenomenally fucking up the product launch that it just fades into obscurity while getting eclipsed by its competitors. Really I can't think of anything more google than that. No idea why shareholders still tolerate their crap.
Honestly, I’d love to know what childhood trauma afflicted Google to be the way it is.
> Just like how Google put social features into every product back in the G+ days, the plan going forward is to build ChatGPT-style generative text into every Google product. Ah yes, the famous G+ integration that has been widely acclaimed as a successful, long-lasting and profitable move.
The removal of the ‘+’ search operator.
Before Google+ was a thing, a leading ‘+’ before a search term meant “this must be in the results”. Then they hijacked it for G+ and made me start "quoting" "every" "important" "term" in my query.
Or maybe it was the Reader shutdown. Those both happened around the same time, right?
You're sending an email. You enter "I'm on it" into the help me write box, and the AI generates a complete corporate-speak email using all the latest buzzwords.
Then the recipients get the email and the summarize feature shows them: "I'm on it".
Just waiting for google to have a superior overall AI, but so phenomenally fucking up the product launch that it just fades into obscurity while getting eclipsed by its competitors. Really I can't think of anything more google than that. No idea why shareholders still tolerate their crap.
More Google than that: the product launch is wildly successful and they get a lot of traction, only to succumb to institutional ADHD and sunset it to free up resources to launch yet another chat app. Honestly, I’d love to know what childhood trauma afflicted Google to be the way it is.
I'm looking forward to the day when the "help me write" and the "summarize" features are the inverse of each other. You're sending an email. You enter "I'm on it" into the help me write box, and the AI generates a complete corporate-speak email using all the latest buzzwords. Then the recipients get the email and the summarize feature shows them: "I'm on it".
First ChatGPT request - "Why can't my Google Workspace account do everything my @gmail account can?"
My mind is blown right now. I have noticed differences between the two, but I thought they were just visual/UI differences. Is there somewhere I could learn more about how Google Workspace does not have parity with a free Gmail account?
from https://workspace.google.com/individual/
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