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Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs

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Re: Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs

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Post by sva_ »

voisin wrote: post #15
Workaccount2 wrote: post #4

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.

While I like to joke about Google products failing as much as the next guy, you've got to give them credit for mostly being focused on research and publishing their results publicly.

Other than, you know, a company that calls themselves "Open"AI, who now even consider it too dangerous (due to competition), to even release the number of parameters of their most recent model, much less talk about the actual research.

Re: Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs

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Post by TechBro8615 »

sva_ wrote: post #31
voisin wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

While I like to joke about Google products failing as much as the next guy, you've got to give them credit for mostly being focused on research and publishing their results publicly. Other than, you know, a company that calls themselves "Open"AI, who now even consider it too dangerous (due to competition), to even release the number of parameters of their most recent model, much less talk about the actual research.

Why should we give them credit for failing to build a working product and instead spamming research papers to conferences?

Re: Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs

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Post by booleandilemma »

sva_ wrote: post #29
raylad wrote: post #17

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".

Yeah, this has been a meme in the ancient times (2 months ago or so) https://i.redd.it/wc8ne97ainda1.jpg

It's almost as verbose as XML.

Re: Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs

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Post by chris_va »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #32
sva_ wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I like to joke about Google products failing as much as the next guy, you've got to give them credit for mostly being focused on research and publishing their results publicly. Other than, you know, a company that calls themselves "Open"AI, who now even consider it too dangerous (due to competition), to even release the number of parameters of their most recent model, much less talk about the actual research.

Why should we give them credit for failing to build a working product and instead spamming research papers to conferences?

Hm, and what do you think begat all of this LLM fun in the first place?

Re: Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs

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Post by sp332 »

gkoberger wrote: post #12
wildrhythms wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I bet the person who wrote the article and the person who wrote the title are two different people. 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.

That's true a lot of places, but Ars writers actually write their own headlines. In fact they're required to write two, and the CMS will A/B test them for an hour before picking a winner. You can tell which one is the "A hed" because it's in the URL. This one is the A hed, so the author probably preferred this over the other one. (Not sure what it was.)

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Post by inerte »

chris_va wrote: post #34
TechBro8615 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should we give them credit for failing to build a working product and instead spamming research papers to conferences?

Hm, and what do you think begat all of this LLM fun in the first place?

Very coincidentally I am trying to understand AI better, and I am reading "Regular Expression Puzzles and AI Coding Assistants" and it says on its first few pages:

Due to transformer deep neural networks mostly pushed forward to a 2017 paper called "Attention is all you need". Prompted by your question I searched where the people who wrote this paper work at, and... (unsurprisingly drum roll), a team from Google.

Re: Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs

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Post by lupire »

IIAOPSW wrote: post #19
raylad wrote: post #17

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".

Slowly, no one even realized, our jobs were replaced by AI talking to itself.

Bullshit jobs get replaced by bullshit generators.
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