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Re: EmailTriager

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post #116

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There is a word the customers have for the bullet-point style of communication. They call it “curt” and they don’t like it. They expect exactly the fluffy speech that ChatGPT generates. I can also read faster than I can write, so I have no problem quickly reading over what ChatGPT generates before sending it.

> There is a word the customers have for the bullet-point style of communication. They call it “curt” and they don’t like it. Unfortunately, yes. I do have my own word for such people: wrong . As in, they probably never experienced a collaborative workload that's high enough to teach them the value of succinct and precise communication. Or, as my wife would say, you can tell who had an actual high-pressure office job…

I’m not overly concerned about it being inaccurate since I don’t use it the way you’re describing. I use it to do qualitative things like write an apology letter for a bad experience, explain to the customer why paying on time is important, or rephrasing something I’ve already told them when they ask the same question again. It does exceptionally well at bullshit communication and as a starting point for canned responses.

Re: EmailTriager

#122
post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a word the customers have for the bullet-point style of communication. They call it “curt” and they don’t like it. They expect exactly the fluffy speech that ChatGPT generates. I can also read faster than I can write, so I have no problem quickly reading over what ChatGPT generates before sending it.

I don't think I'm all that fast at it but I do wish ChatGPT could give answers a tiny bit faster. As it is I give it a prompt and then switch to a different tab while it answers.

Yeah, not sure what's going on there. Some of it is probably the model running, but the interface itself seems to be ridiculously bloated. Like, an order of magnitude worse than Slack in its worst days.

In fact, ChatGPT is unusable on my phone (Galaxy S22, Firefox), as it visibly slows down with every word it outputs, so it takes a minute for it to print out a full paragraph of text. I haven't explicitly debugged it, but comparing with PC experience of the same site, it's rather clear that it's not the AI that's lagging, but whatever mess of JavaScript they have running on the website itself.

Re: EmailTriager

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post #121

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> There is a word the customers have for the bullet-point style of communication. They call it “curt” and they don’t like it. Unfortunately, yes. I do have my own word for such people: wrong . As in, they probably never experienced a collaborative workload that's high enough to teach them the value of succinct and precise communication. Or, as my wife would say, you can tell who had an actual high-pressure office job…

I’m not overly concerned about it being inaccurate since I don’t use it the way you’re describing. I use it to do qualitative things like write an apology letter for a bad experience, explain to the customer why paying on time is important, or rephrasing something I’ve already told them when they ask the same question again. It does exceptionally well at bullshit communication and as a starting point for canned respo…

Fair enough. A typical e-commerce worker would have templates for half the things you mentioned now, ready to be copy-pasted into e-mail, so I guess ChatGPT would mostly be introducing variety to the canned replies.

Re: EmailTriager

#124

> Note from Kevin! Bear with me, this is just an automatically generated privacy policy. I will get a real one soon. > What you probably want to know is if your emails are safe! Yes, they are safe. All emails are encrypted in transit and at rest. However, to use OpenAI we need to decrypt on the server before making an API request. In the future, I would love to run our own LLM completely in house so your emails never…

The screenshots are from Gmail users; I assume anyone using Gmail doesn't really care that much about the privacy of their email.

Re: EmailTriager

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post #8

My 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.

Ironically, based on my experience working in consulting and with exec level folks, what most people need is something that turns long meandering emails into text like your example Good emails are short and give only the most relevant info and "ask" of the recipient. Most emails people send get ignored or misunderstood because they expect too much from the recipient, who, unless it's a major priority, doesn't have th…

I believe this can be done with NN softwares: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/democratize-documentation...

Re: EmailTriager

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Rest assured, your comment and this reply were encrypted in transit and at rest, therefore we are probably the only two people who can read them.

Haha, got you there! I am reading both comments right now, though the analog hole[0] that is my computer screen. -- [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

Nooooo

Re: EmailTriager

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post #66

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+1 but the sad part is that this is trivial to fix with Whisper yet I'm not seeing the integrations in popular messaging apps. just put the text blurb in there automatically already!

Whisper is still cost prohibitive at scale.

I thought it ran locally? You mean just the raw processing cost? Ya ok i can see that.
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