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Re: EmailTriager

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Post by ketzo »

svat wrote: post #60
velox_neb wrote: post #52

Rather than a GPT-3 generated email, I would rather receive the prompt that the sender would have used to generate the email. We could even come up with a conventional shorthand for this. Imagine you send me a message that just says [[personalized thank you note for the pair of socks you got me for christmas]]. Then I just imagine a long GPT-3 generated message in its place. And I reply with [[gracious acknowledgment…

See "Down Pens" by Saki, 1914. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beasts_and_Super-Beasts/%22Do...

Wow, I can’t believe I’ve never read that. That’s all-time stuff right there.

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Post by stavros »

gajus wrote: post #13
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.

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

This just shifts the burden from you to the recipient. I don't want to listen to a 1-minute voice message where you pause and try to collect your thoughts, rather than spend two seconds reading two sentences.

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Post by fragmede »

traceroute66 wrote: post #57
mynameisvlad wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s clearly a hobby project, which means leeway is much more allowed. Furthermore, who are you to tell someone what is required , especially when you’re not paying or even using their service. Additionally, the existing privacy policy is a real policy. Just because it was generated doesn’t mean it’s not applicable. Not every policy needs to be handcrafted with love. What, exactly, is wrong with the current policy? H…

> It’s clearly a hobby project, which means leeway is much more allowed I'm sorry, but what sort of bullshit is that ? The law does not differentiate between "hobby project" or not. It would be the ultimate get-out clause for criminals ... "yes, officer, I'm distributing cocaine, but don't worry, its only a hobby project".

So it turns out the US actually does make that differentiation. A non-violent individual hobbyist who occasionally deals cocaine on the side and isn't part of a gang isn't charged the same as Tony "Scarface" Montana. Career criminals like the fictional Tony Montana get "I'm a professional" charges while hobbyists do not. Professionals get charged under the RICO Act, which stands for "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by notahacker »

tsegers wrote: post #58
mynameisvlad wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Whats the actual difference between sending ten identical low-effort auto-generated emails and ten unique low-effort auto-generated emails?

The unique ones are more likely to inadvertently imply something you didn't intend ...

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Post by burkaman »

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…

> 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?

- "book me a table at Dorsia's tonight around 6"

- "The closest available reservation is at 8:30pm, would you like me to book that?"

- "no that's too late, are any other days open?"

- "The next available 6pm reservation is on Monday next week, would you like me to book that?"

- "no I just mean 8:30 tonight is too late because I have an early thing tomorrow, I'll take any time on another day"

- "Ok, there is a 10pm reservation available tomorrow night, would you like me to book that?"

- "ok I didn't mean literally any time, is the kitchen even still open at 10? can you just show me a calendar with availability and I'll pick a good time"

I can't think of any task that I currently accomplish using an online interface that would be more enjoyably or efficiently accomplished by having a conversation with an AI (or a human). The AI doesn't replace the interface, it replaces the communication protocol, which is obviously a bad idea. Clicking Reserve and sending a TCP request is a lot more predictable, efficient, and repeatable than instructing your AI to chat with their AI.

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Post by yoyohello13 »

It would be so nice to have an AI email personal assistant.

An AI that would read my entire inbox and give me a high-level overview of what requires my attention now, and summarizes message contents for the day. Then I can write responses only to emails which I care about.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by jacobsenscott »

> 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.

Lol - this is just what's provide by default by https and every cloud service. It doesn't make your emails "safe". If you don't know why, the are definitely not safe.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by marssaxman »

gajus wrote: post #49
polygamous_bat wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've never heard of that before. Could you describe how it works?

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by ttul »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #77

It would be so nice to have an AI email personal assistant. An AI that would read my entire inbox and give me a high-level overview of what requires my attention now, and summarizes message contents for the day. Then I can write responses only to emails which I care about.

I would love to have something like this for Slack as well as email.

And, I'd say this is definitely coming to you soon via one of the AI juggernauts, likely as a first-class integrated feature of your mailbox and/or chat interface such as Slack. ChatGPT gives us a preview of what is lying just around the corner as a first-class feature of most business productivity software.

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