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I'm looking forward to the day when the "help me write" and the "summarize" features are the inverse of each other.

You're sending an email. You enter "I'm on it" into the help me write box, and the AI generates a complete corporate-speak email using all the latest buzzwords.

Then the recipients get the email and the summarize feature shows them: "I'm on it".

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Yeah, this has been a meme in the ancient times (2 months ago or so)

https://i.redd.it/wc8ne97ainda1.jpg

It's almost as verbose as XML.

LOL

XML is not verbose if you stick to using primarily attributes instead of elements. Unfortunately, that pattern never had popularity.

Attributes don't map well to standard collections, so it is clumsy to parse and use in most programming languages.

Slowly, no one even realized, our jobs were replaced by AI talking to itself.

... which illustrates the pointlessness of a whole lot of business activities.

"I’m Going To Need Those TPS Reports ASAP."

Bullshit jobs get replaced by bullshit generators.

I had a "OMG, we live in the future!" moment reading this headline, isn't this what computers in sci-fi movies do (ok admittedly there aren't a lot of sci-fi movies where office work is the plot): you ask it to do something like yo would an assistant, and it delivers you the results. Something like "Computer, scan planet for lifeforms" on Star Trek.

Maybe someone should build a KITT from Knight Rider using ChatGPT (just for his sass, leave out the self-driving part, that's Elon's department (/s)).

Knight Rider style: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/gm-pl...

KITT talking scene is so relevant to 2023

Same. More generally, I'd like a model that infers the most likely prompt(s) from transformer-generated words or images. I would much rather know what the prompter was trying to do than what his model generated as a result, and treat whatever was generated as a lossy wire encoding.

If the revealed preference of everyone is short, terse speech, why isn't business writing optimizing for that?

Because it’s not polite.

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