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Re: EmailTriager

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Post by frereubu »

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…

Reminds me very much of this bit from an early Steven Soderberg film, Schizopolis (which I consider to be an underappreciated work of genius): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pct9smNM6u4

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by jacobsenscott »

voisin wrote: post #2

Looks fantastic. I’d be interested to know how it adds the drafts automatically and what kind of privacy access is being exchanged. I’d love if it could be done outside of email for privacy-conscious folks (I suppose ChatGPT!). Does it only work with Gmail?

No doubt through the gmail api https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/drafts

what access? Full access to your email.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by frereubu »

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.

I'm old enough to remember when tech folk would tut when someone had a long plaintext signature because it took up bandwidth...

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by oersted »

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...

Interesting that even back then it was quite common to send presents by post. The Amazon pattern seems so new.

PS: Delightful read, thanks for the recommendation.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by m4lvin »

butz wrote: post #68

> And drafts will magically show up in your inbox, ready to be sent. One could also say, that spam magically shows up in my inbox :^) What would be really "magical", if those emails showed up in "Drafts" folder.

But wait, I assumed that is actually what it does after you give it access to your email account? (Which us yet another reason I will not touch it with a stick.)

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by vidarh »

monkeydust wrote: post #10
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.

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.

In the 90's the notion of autonomous agents negotiating to fullfil our goals were for a brief period all the rage.

Being able to tell an AI what you want and have it translated to actual goals for agents to use to negotiate, and have the result of their search translated back to concise plain text would be great.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by Ken_At_EM »

gajus wrote: post #22
Ken_At_EM wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re right. Secondary point, if you can’t make time to have coffee for someone for an entire month, it probably isn’t important enough to do, ever.

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

Almost no one has too busy of a schedule to not squeeze in a 30-60 minute conversation over coffee within a month.

If I ask someone to coffee and their response is, next month? I’d take it as a clear signal that the content of our conversation or our relationship is not important.

Re: EmailTriager

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Post by KMnO4 »

burkaman wrote: post #75
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…

You made an imaginary scenario designed to make the AI look bad. Of course that’s not a great display of the use case.

How about this?

> Book me a table for me and Michele tonight at Kingsley’s.

> “Okay, I checked in at Kingsley’s but there’s nothing available until 9pm. I see you have an early flight tomorrow and won’t be returning until Friday so may I suggest The Lancaster instead? There’s space at 6:30. Michele has rated The Lancaster a 9/10.”

> Sounds good!

> “Reservation confirmed. I’ve created an event in your calendar and invited her. Also, it looks like there’s a basketball game happening downtown tonight so I suggest leaving by 5:37pm”

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I think it’s hard to see past the uncanny valley of AI but the reality is that we’re not going to abandon AI when it’s only 85% there. You could say the same thing about speech-to-text a half decade ago (“I can’t imagine fixing the mistakes will be faster than just typing it yourself”), but I dictated this entire post. Technology moves quickly.

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