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Re: EmailTriager

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Post by mynameisvlad »

sigmonsays wrote: post #36

this is a step in the wrong direction. why would I ever want a canned response, even if from AI? Phone IVR systems are already so badly "programmed" you objectively have to say "operator" over and over to reach a person. In this day an age, this is all the more reason to pick up a phone and call someone.

Did you see the email it generated? That’s far from canned.

And that’s the point, ChatGPT isn’t a canned email. It’s generated, sure, but you’re not sending the same email to 10 people.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by mynameisvlad »

codetrotter wrote: post #4

> 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…

I don’t get this comment’s purpose. The site’s author already agrees with you and has committed to making a better privacy policy. It’s on the list, it’s not like someone has to be reminded of the importance of it was already called out by the author themselves.

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Post by gajus »

monkeydust wrote: post #35
monkeydust wrote: post #10

Earlier 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.

Anyone remember google wave ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave ) - I remember playing around with it with a few friends thinking there is definatley something in it.

At the time, Wave felt revolutionary. Real shame it never got broader adoption.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by gajus »

duxup wrote: post #28
gajus wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just not true. You shouldn't take offense to this at all. People have busy schedules.

I don’t think it is offensive. I think it is that “next month” is probably an indication of importance and “next month” will be busy too / the importance of a message you want an AI to spam back… still not important.

Also, "coffee" is like the most generic thing someone could ask for. The more generic the ask, the harder to schedule.

Re: EmailTriager

#45

Post by polygamous_bat »

marssaxman wrote: post #26
gajus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. I'm glad you and I do not try to correspond!

Same here. Audio messages are easy to create for the sender but a nightmare to parse for the receiver. Whenever I receive an audio message I automatically tend to assume that the sender thinks of their time as more valuable than the receiver, which is acceptable in some cases (from busy PhD advisor to advisee) but I find unacceptable in other cases, for example in peer-to-peer communication.

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Post by velox_neb »

jancsika wrote: post #29
gajus wrote: 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.

It is true that there is a risk of AI adding creating content that is unnecessarily verbose. This could end up consuming time and putting a higher cognitive load on the humans who ultimately read these emails. On the other hand, these AI systems will only advance over time. It's certainly within the realm of possibility that these systems will be able to write with increased brevity. Additionally, much like current r…

ok gpt

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Post by ryanSrich »

gajus wrote: 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.

> is a completely fine exchange. Adding a wall of text to convey the same information does not help anyone.

Should have been a text or telegram message anyway.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

I am starting to think that the prediction thread we had on HN the other day called it. GPT will become end up a fad with few niche ( useful, but niche ) uses, while our signal to noise ration will become even worse.

I do not like that one bit. I am already spending too much time deciding whether email in my box is a waste of time.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by gajus »

polygamous_bat wrote: post #45
marssaxman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if I know this will take me more than a minute to type, it is going to be a voice message. I'm glad you and I do not try to correspond!

Same here. Audio messages are easy to create for the sender but a nightmare to parse for the receiver. Whenever I receive an audio message I automatically tend to assume that the sender thinks of their time as more valuable than the receiver, which is acceptable in some cases (from busy PhD advisor to advisee) but I find unacceptable in other cases, for example in peer-to-peer communication.

That view that you are describing is completely culture dependent though.

The opposite is true in Asia.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by [deleted] »

anthropodie wrote: post #33

A bit tangential but I am wondering now that we have brought everything online, I guess next step would be to integrate AI everywhere. Consider this, you want to book your table at restaurant so you tell your AI which will inform restaurant's AI to book a table for you. In this whole scenario where is UI? I mean this whole chat with AI thing kinda makes lot of UIs redundant. I don't need UI for reminders, notes, meet…

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