We're going to have AI help us generate long pieces of text from very small blurbs of information.
Then the reader is going to have AI read the long pieces of text, and condense it down into just small blurbs of information.
Will my self-driving car also take unneeded detours through pretty places, making it take longer to get where I'm going?
So it's
* small explanation
* initial proposal of what you probably want
* fixes and approval
Not really any different than asking a person to do it for you.
You don't tell your car/mapping software the exact route you want, you tell it where you want to go and then review the proposed plan, and that's with a very restricted setup (exact destination, limited routes).
Edit
More importantly, short messages that convey everything you want with the right tone are hard. Taking my mashed thoughts and converting them to easier to understand prose is a benefit even if it's longer.
Just like a larger function can be better than a code-golfed one. It's longer but it doesn't take longer to read.
Just look at the "I'm on it" example from their announcement video and what nonsense their AI makes out of it: https://youtu.be/6DaJVZBXETE?t=31
It reminded me of an old article [1] about Howard Schultz where his reply of "On it." was praised by another CEO because it demonstrated that he was much more focused on getting shit done rather than overcommunicating or over-delegating.
I just dug it up:
> Friends and colleagues agree that he is as fanatical as ever about Starbucks. Millard Drexler, the chief executive of J. Crew, recently e-mailed Mr. Schultz to complain that the coffee lids at a Starbucks on Astor Place in Manhattan kept spilling coffee on his shirt. Mr. Schultz’s reply: “On it.”
> Mr. Drexler, who has a habit of e-mailing C.E.O.’s with complaints, says: “I can give you many more examples when they say, ‘I’ll send this to a research department or a gatekeeper.’ ” But, he says of Starbucks, “to have that kind of quality control they have around the world is pretty extraordinary.”
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13coffee.html
I hope so, when you want it to. "Unneeded detours through pretty places" is a kind of being present in the world.
An AI that directs you to explore places it deduces that you'd enjoy would be pretty cool.
Self driving cars might have set destinations that are cheaper to visit, or have free rides that are ad-supported, or recommend stops along your route.
I think you mean set destinations based on an auction of what business paid most for your visit, based on your demographics & ride history.
heck I might like that service, if optional
I guess that depends if it's _your_ self-driving car or Google/Uber/Teslas self-driving car that they're letting you use. It might even be so that the physical car is yours, but the self-driving software is licensed and controlled by a third party.
No, but it may take a detour through the local McDonalds drive through because they sponsor the self driving car company.