i agree, my point is the two feed into each other. there’s a distinction between written language and oral language, but not exactly a large one. hell, look at us talking right now!
tangentially related but its getting a bit ridiculous with the AI zoom assistants. I had someone show up to a meeting and 3! different virtual assistants that were trying to join the call with him. some people seem to collect them like pokemon.
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okay i have to admit those things are pretty good for transcriptions lol.
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I think the cost vs. benefit discussion will eventually lead to business people realizing that a lot of the stuff they’re trying to automate is pointless in the first place.
I feel like it’s the extension of “this meeting should’ve been an e-mail” to “this e-mail shouldn’t have been sent in the first place”.
Like what kind of e-mails are people writing, where it’s okay to have ChatGPT write them? If it’s a personal exchange, ChatGPT will make the e-mail sound very much not like you and alienate the other person. If it’s a professional e-mail that requires some thinking to respond maybe you should be involved to actually know what’s going on and if it’s neither of both it’s probably a transactional e-mail that’s already being written via the click of a button (I accept this meeting invitation) or a backend system. (Thank you for your order)
I always get very suspicious when people tell me that ChatGPT makes their job so much easier. If all your biggest problems in your job are easily solved by writing the instructions into ChatGPT that job probably shouldn’t have existed in the first place or you are awfully bad at it. Especially in big corporations there are a lot of these bullshit-jobs of people that just broadcast noise all day keeping others from actually doing productive work.
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I am suspicious as well.
My coworkers seem to use it for brainstorming (which frightens me because are they out of ideas?) writing up these huge summaries that I instantly have zero interest in reading, or as alternative to google - which makes sense not everyone is good at googling and the results have been bad lately.
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is this distinct from most kids already not paying attention in Language Arts class and trying to do the bare minimum, and then retaining little of anything of said minimum onward into adult life or is it more the contemporary manifestation of the same thing. I think it’s a bummer btw just curious about that question
Little of both? I saw some students not really paying attention and doing the bare minimum in writing before two years ago. In that sense, GAI is just another way to do less. But I’ve also seen more students believing that they are investing in their writing by using a tool that generates insipid prose. Or they buy into summaries that are frequently banal and sometimes inaccurate. They think they are good students who are studenting responsibly by letting AI Jesus take the wheel. That’s not most students, but more than the standard minimal-effort contingent.
Like what kind of e-mails are people writing, where it’s okay to have ChatGPT write them? If it’s a personal exchange, ChatGPT will make the e-mail sound very much not like you and alienate the other person. If it’s a professional e-mail that requires some thinking to respond maybe you should be involved to actually know what’s going on and if it’s neither of both it’s probably a transactional e-mail that’s already being written via the click of a button (I accept this meeting invitation) or a backend system. (Thank you for your order)
I could see a botlike arrangement developing where, in personal exchanges, people are neither reading closely nor personally writing. If that happens, their circle wouldn’t read closely enough to care whether it sounds like them.
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I’m certainly glad it wasn’t! I’m not sure if this was a joke, but asmongold is pretty abhorrent. Just making sure everybody knows!
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it was a joke 
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Tangential and not even related to the topic of AI but the funniest “implementation” of blockchain I saw, seemingly on an actual commercial product sold and distributed out into the real world, was a “blockchain powered” certification of origin/production on an individual bottle of balsamic vinegar. Even assuming that isn’t just the same QR code on all bottles, imagine just using your decentralized confidence scheme generator information storage system to refer to information that is literally only worthwhile to relay if a centralized system has verified it
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every now and then i try to take a break from the news then when i log back on i get a bunch of information at once that makes me feel like i’m going insane.
in the span of ten minutes i saw a video of a 19 year old palestinian kid burning to death in a hospital bed, read a news article about how carbon sinks like forests have collapsed, saw both nominees for american president talking about their cryptocurrency policy, and learned google will now also build nuclear power plants to fund their ai fantasies. as i type this there’s an “investor” who bought the house across the street from me making renovations to turn it into an airbnb. i’ve been ignoring emails from my student loan provider.
please nintendo….we need the switch 2
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I just took someone on a date to a trivia night at a bar, and when I went to the bathroom I saw they were playing Pokemon Stadium 2 mini games on the projector. Go back to the nice lady or play the worst mini games ever for the billionth time…the war between the man I am and the man I hope to be has never raged harder
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“My bad . . . I’ll do better” is an unreal thing to say here lol
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And they only suspended his secondary account! (though I guess this also means he can’t use his primary one anymore…)
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I don’t know about county level, but there are 'harbinger zip codes" or “harbinger households” that consistently pick losing test products and losing presidential candidates.
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Yes, that’s really interesting. Added this to the reading list:
Simester, Duncan I., et al. “The Surprising Breadth of Harbingers of Failure.” Journal of Marketing Research, vol. 56, no. 6, 2019, pp. 1034–49. JSTOR, The Surprising Breadth of Harbingers of Failure on JSTOR. Accessed 16 Oct. 2024.
Skimming the article, it appears the difference between harbinger zip codes and other zip codes is small, like a 3% difference in the success rate of items they purchase. I guess that makes sense: it’s not like the purchasers of Diet Crystal Pepsi aren’t also buying many products that do succeed, just as part of their regular shopping.
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It was startling enough just reading your update!
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Does she like donuts by chance?
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Well I don’t know for sure but I assume yes, and I was afraid to reply to this as I am surely missing an obvious joke in doing so
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You shared a story about a young woman who was trying to get into fights with you about donuts at the workplace and I was just hoping perhaps romance blossomed on the battlefield.
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hahaha ohhhhhh yes. No, love did not bloom on the battlefield in this case. In fact, my every interaction with that woman baffles me more than the last.
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