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Re: Amazon Q (Preview)

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Post by Jtsummers »

whalesalad wrote: post #40
Jtsummers wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The swastika is associated with a group that waged a major war against many nations and committed genocide and other atrocities. Avoiding it, at least in most contexts, is just good sense these days. "Q" in "QAnon" is associated with a bunch of idiots believing nonsensical conspiracy theories. These aren't quite the same things. Congrats on Godwin'ing the thread, though.

Giraffe makes a good point. Idiots believing nonsensical conspiracy theories became Nazi's after all. It's a slippery slope. It is completely fair to compare them. Crazy is crazy, regardless of which one is "worse".

So let's stop using the letter Q for systems related to "Q&A" services because some idiots might associate the Q with another group of idiots who have managed to accomplish nothing of value and most people know are idiots? That's idiotic.

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Post by whalesalad »

ecshafer wrote: post #39
bee_rider wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the votes of terminally online conspiracy theorists have the same weight as the rest of ours, which can interact with the real world. Edit: actually, I phrased this poorly in reflection. It is good that everyone gets a vote, even people I disagree with. The unfortunate thing is the influence of online weirdness on people.

They are an extreme minority. In the real world most people have no idea what QAnon is outside of maybe a weird thing they saw on the news and laughed at.

You'd be surprised. Venture outside of a population center and into the heartland.

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Post by bee_rider »

quadcore wrote: post #25

Meamwhile I think the law should garantee a customer can speak to someone at a company who has enough power to take action on the entire customer account. At least in France we passed a law that says that if you subscribed to a service online, you can unsubscribed online too (no idea if we're first, or last).

I am also annoyed by these online services with basically no customer service.

But, what do you mean by “take action on the entire customer account?” “Trick or bribe a human” is not a very difficult task, so it must be the case that there are some things a customer service agent can’t do.

Granting access, clearly a no-go for any service that might hold important private documents. But also, canceling an account on that sort of service could be pretty catastrophic… which means they can’t resolve problems in a direction that stops them from billing you…

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Post by danwee »

dtihanyi wrote: post #18

"Amazon Q offers 40+ built-in connectors to popular enterprise applications and document repositories, including S3, Salesforce, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Gmail, Slack, Atlassian, and Zendesk" Having a direct link to S3 + existing connectors built in feels like a strong competitive moat. Interested to see how far they can expand on this

This feels strange (maybe I got it wrong).

It's probably because Amazon has all the money in the world they need to develop their products, but I would expect to launch a new product with some minimal but strong features to attract customers. Q offers 40+ built-in connectors from day zero. Like I can imagine the engineers/managers working on connector number 25: "Man, we have implemented already 24 connectors and we don't even know if the product will be a success or not...".

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Post by lumost »

slavetologic wrote: post #38

Bye bye gpt wrappers

I always found it strange that VCs were so focused on GPT for X companies. In my view, there is no reason why GPT for X isn't just GPT. Once the model is fine tuned for this task, there isn't anything terribly special about a given X.

That being said, enhancing existing products to be chat friendly will definitely be an improvement.

Re: Amazon Q (Preview)

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Post by bee_rider »

ecshafer wrote: post #39
bee_rider wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the votes of terminally online conspiracy theorists have the same weight as the rest of ours, which can interact with the real world. Edit: actually, I phrased this poorly in reflection. It is good that everyone gets a vote, even people I disagree with. The unfortunate thing is the influence of online weirdness on people.

They are an extreme minority. In the real world most people have no idea what QAnon is outside of maybe a weird thing they saw on the news and laughed at.

I don’t think this is true, but I see how either of us could possibly prove it either way.

Re: Amazon Q (Preview)

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Post by lainga »

danwee wrote: post #46
dtihanyi wrote: post #18

"Amazon Q offers 40+ built-in connectors to popular enterprise applications and document repositories, including S3, Salesforce, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Gmail, Slack, Atlassian, and Zendesk" Having a direct link to S3 + existing connectors built in feels like a strong competitive moat. Interested to see how far they can expand on this

This feels strange (maybe I got it wrong). It's probably because Amazon has all the money in the world they need to develop their products, but I would expect to launch a new product with some minimal but strong features to attract customers. Q offers 40+ built-in connectors from day zero. Like I can imagine the engineers/managers working on connector number 25: "Man, we have implemented already 24 connectors and we…

15 connectors was the bare minimum. Brian, for example, has 37 connectors, okay. And a terrific smile.
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