Ask HN: What's the Point of AI When

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an email writer uses an AI to craft a long fluffy email and the receiver uses an AI to boil it down to bullet points. The power and cost to achieve this is wasted. The writer should have just put in bullet points.

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Using LLMs in this way is one of the things that I'm most critical of, because it decreases human connection and communication and increases alienation from the real world.

Even worse, it does this for people who don't use LLMs in this way because it makes all communications suspect.

Rube Goldberg complex. [0]

"A Rube Goldberg machine is an elaborate and deliberately over-complicated device designed to perform a simple task through a series of intricate, chain-reaction steps. These machines are named after the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who popularized the concept through his humorous illustrations. Each step in a Rube Goldberg machine triggers the next, often using principles of physics and mechanics, ultimately achieving a straightforward objective in the most complex way possible, blending creativity, engineering, and entertainment."

[0] https://www.zmescience.com/science/physics/rube-goldberg-mac...

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