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Truly useful?

Personal take, but the usefulness of these tools to me is greatly limited by their knowledge latency and limited modality.

I don't need information overload on what playtime gifts to buy my kitten or some semi-random but probably not very practical "guide" on how to navigate XYZ airport.

Those are not useful tips. It's drinking from an information firehose that'll lead to fatigue, not efficiency.

I doubt there would be this level of pessimism if people thought this is a progress toward a truly useful assistant.

Personally it sounds negative value. Maybe a startup that's not doing anything else could iterate on something like this into a killer app, but my expectation that OpenAI can do so is very, very low.

Pessimism is how people now signal their savviness or status. My autistic brain took some time to understand this nuance.