Given the amount of noise from people churning out low quality content today, I find this unlikely.
What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?
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#42This is my first time hearing about Slite knowledge base. I think this is a great idea based on search summaries. However, the access privilege bit covered in the video seems technically tricky. How do you know that chatgpt isn’t leaking out some private information in its responses, unless every user has their own private model?
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#43I’ve been using AI to write with great success. Mostly business documents. My general process is this: Think of the concept I want to write about as well as the supporting evidence for the topic. Ask ChatGPT to write me something in my target format using the topic and supporting evidence as input. What I get back is essentially a well-written skeleton that I can use to fill in additional details. Finally, I pass my…
The symmetric flow of information back and forth between yourself and the AI assistant is the key distinction here. It's a very beneficial, symbiotic relationship. The problem will be the asymmetric, uni-directional flow to those whose sole function is mindless consumption of AI-generated content.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Jokes aside, do be careful. A prolonged interaction with LLM agents had resulted in at least one Googler being terminated on their jobs.
On the other hand, I would not be surprised, if they’ll make millions now, suing Google citing the job hazards exposure. And that ChatGPT reasoning abilities and empathic skills are maybe already above the median human. As a result, in a median case, such interactions might result in an effect similar to an interaction with a good teacher.
Still, none of this is very well tested.
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#44I wonder if this article is written also with AI help? For instance ChatGPT usually ends the last paragraph with "Ultimately". As a side note I've also seen sites use SEO by writing possible search terms into the article itself.
unfortunately, my human brain wrote this, and it is not optimized for SEO :/
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#45I can rewrite every book in existence but what is the point if everyone can do it?
I can breathe, but what is the point if everyone can do it? The point is that what used to be a great achievement becomes a new baseline, and the great achievements become ever greater.
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#46However, in my work, one of the things I’m tasked with doing is the tedious process of writing and rewriting instructions for training exercises. A non-trivial amount of unnecessary energy is spent on restructuring the grammatical structure and flow of this text.
I seriously wouldn’t mind focusing on the details and let an AI do the work.
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#47The current chatbots are kind of like a calculator for language—they’re not going to do all your work for you, but they’ll definitely speed and streamline the process.
If it make people less good at everything it touches like it did for basic maths we're utterly fucked.
Unless the apocalypse comes we'll be just fine, and at that point hunting will be more important than math again anyway.
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#48I’ve been using AI to write with great success. Mostly business documents. My general process is this: Think of the concept I want to write about as well as the supporting evidence for the topic. Ask ChatGPT to write me something in my target format using the topic and supporting evidence as input. What I get back is essentially a well-written skeleton that I can use to fill in additional details. Finally, I pass my…
So you are providing sensitive business information/facts to a third party service that's likely going to use those for training, analysis, store it, etc. ? It should be fine for most places I guess - but I suspect a decent amount will have a problem with this. This is my main reservation about copilot as well (quality issues aside).
Every business needs to make their own decision. Personally, I’m not worried about OpenAI using my data, but I understand others might be. That being said, I already give Amazon literally all my data about my business via AWS and Google gets a copy of all my documents, so providing this data isn’t entirely unprecedented.
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#49The current chatbots are kind of like a calculator for language—they’re not going to do all your work for you, but they’ll definitely speed and streamline the process.
If it make people less good at everything it touches like it did for basic maths we're utterly fucked.
What makes those "basic maths" a good benchmark for whether we're fucked?
Freeing up head space for more important things is valuable. Not having to maintain 7 digit numbers in your head lets you focus on the actual problem.
Not having to worry so much about the phrasing in a document because anyone can ask a bot to rephrase it, in a way that makes the most sense to them, is better than what we have today.