I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
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I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
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Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#2>Using her authority gave it enough power to get the team gather up for a call.
This is why I think the slackbots OP wrote were so effective. When you give a bot a name like MeetingBot it's easy to ignore the notifications. However when the bot carries authority of a manager or team member it's harder to ignore.
Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#3>Using her authority gave it enough power to get the team gather up for a call. This is why I think the slackbots OP wrote were so effective. When you give a bot a name like MeetingBot it's easy to ignore the notifications. However when the bot carries authority of a manager or team member it's harder to ignore.
It's also a question whether the activities are really important if you need tricks like that (pretending to be the authority) to get people to act...
Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#4I actually think this is where the first "general intelligence" AIs will come from: people will train AIs to be them. It will start out running little bits of our lives, but eventually you'll be able to take whole days off with AI you doing your job.
I read a short story about this... a neural implant that starts off in passive mode, learning to be you, and then you switch it over to active mode at some point and you are it.
Interestingly, this makes an end-run around the whole "what if AIs have power but no morals?" question... the first AIs will have human morals because they'll be clones of humans.
Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#5Reminds me of a quote/thought (I don't recall the original source): The worst waste of time is to improve (automate) something that doesn't need to be done.
I've been there myself. I was asked to deliver to email a report that anyone could get at any time by opening a browser, but they wanted an email instead (their communication path - if our office used IM/Slack more, I can easily see them wanting that instead of the email).
Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#6I actually think this is where the first "general intelligence" AIs will come from: people will train AIs to be them. It will start out running little bits of our lives, but eventually you'll be able to take whole days off with AI you doing your job. I read a short story about this... a neural implant that starts off in passive mode, learning to be you, and then you switch it over to active mode at some point and you…
> I read a short story about this... a neural implant that starts off in passive mode, learning to be you, and then you switch it over to active mode at some point and you are it.
"Learning to be Me" by Greg Egan?
I read it in the short story collection (various authors) Beyond Flesh
Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#7> I launched it on Monday morning and waited for the laughs.
> But nobody noticed.
I should imagine that's one of the biggest insults anyone could receive. Woah.
Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#8I can't help but think that this is what Google Wave was supposed to be. But Slack is what actually enabled people to build little bots like this for everything.
Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#9Reminds me of a quote/thought (I don't recall the original source): The worst waste of time is to improve (automate) something that doesn't need to be done. I've been there myself. I was asked to deliver to email a report that anyone could get at any time by opening a browser, but they wanted an email instead (their communication path - if our office used IM/Slack more, I can easily see them wanting that instead of t…
That makes sense to me -- active vs. passive receiving of information. Which is why mailing lists are still popular, instead of message boards.
Re: I Automated My Friends and Nobody Could Tell the Difference
#10>Using her authority gave it enough power to get the team gather up for a call. This is why I think the slackbots OP wrote were so effective. When you give a bot a name like MeetingBot it's easy to ignore the notifications. However when the bot carries authority of a manager or team member it's harder to ignore.
And if your bot is sufficiently spammy, it could end up diluting your own authority!