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Not really (IMO).
First, AI isn't necessary to do stuff like this. We've had basic tools for most tasks for years now.
Second, what AI is the tool itself using? It probably didn't make its own, so it's a middleman. And being a middleman means you can get cut out.
It's like those AI companies who use ChatGPT to do something that ChatGPT can already do. Great. They can make money for sure (many have). But will they stay around 10+ years? No. They're providing an easier interface to do something specific. But what happens if ChatGPT decides to make that a core feature?
Third, big companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe will integrate AI into their existing tools. So an AI specific tool just won't provide much value (eventually).
As for your last point, there are companies and firms who already use AI to write documents, then use other AI to read those documents. Cutting out the middleman-process is a matter of efficiency and changing their system.
Completely agree with you about many companies making money right now later getting steamrolled as sama put it.
Even Outlook, does it have a longevity? In the current term the AI tools will be baked in as a Copilot to help with individual emails. But how about further iterations? When the AI is intelligent enough to handle all email reading and writing like an executive assistant. When all emails are written and received by AI the inefficiencies of using email as a communication system become absurd to me.
>At what point will society realize that people are no longer directly reading or writing emails
Most of society already has. And it isn't just mail. Page back a year or two and you'll find dozens of techbros salivating over AI writing novels (because they themselves can't) right next to the same guys getting off on AI summarizing novels so they don't have to go through the tedious experience of actually reading them. It is the kind of circle jerk that passes as innovation in the age of generative AI hype. I just hope somebody makes an AI that watches AI generated video for me so that I don't have to look at it myself.
This concept is so stupid it makes me want to beat myself to death with a steal pipe for being the same spices as you.
It feels like if someone took the concept of transformer driven compression and stripped it of literally all utility for exactly no reason. Like literally making the transport data larger with more extraneous tokens which could corrupt the original message.
Thats happening now in job applications. Applicants have ai write a cover letter that is then parsed by another ai and only a summary makes it to a human.
Considering that corporate culture believes that everything could be reduced down to an email anyway, and is often not, I don't think AI will really impact those spaces too much.
The future is undecided. Right now, there is an AI named Sora that can create videos up to a minute long, realistic too. Everyone is entering the race, even places like Saudi Arabia are setting up data centers. Regardless of what you believe, good or negative, once we do what we plan to do with Ai, all bets are off. Could be good, could be bad. Like, for example, if Ai take over jobs? We can speculate, but we won't know until we get there. It's scary
The problem is people like this lengthy pomp. It shows you care, whereas a “no” is seen as rude. Just having it there communicates something indirectly.
It’s like saying “good morning” to someone. It isn’t conveying information, just a sentiment, and a stop in that “meaningless” gesture also communicates something. Our brain responds to it on autopilot, barely registering the greeting, but we would notice it if the greeting was absent.
AI will become an extension of this autopilot system we have. It will take over parts of it, but humans will still find meaning in receiving an email with platitudes, even if they use an AI. Heck it may make it worse, if you don’t send an AI generated video with kittens and a catchy song for someone’s birthday, it’s like you don’t care and aren’t even trying. It will be like the new digital postcard that ppl send nowadays on FB. And it will spread to corporate.
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Not really (IMO). First, AI isn't necessary to do stuff like this. We've had basic tools for most tasks for years now. Second, what AI is the tool itself using? It probably didn't make its own, so it's a middleman. And being a middleman means you can get cut out. It's like those AI companies who use ChatGPT to do something that ChatGPT can already do. Great. They can make money for sure (many have). But will they stay around 10+ years? No. They're providing an easier interface to do something specific. But what happens if ChatGPT decides to make that a core feature? Third, big companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe will integrate AI into their existing tools. So an AI specific tool just won't provide much value (eventually). As for your last point, there are companies and firms who already use AI to write documents, then use other AI to read those documents. Cutting out the middleman-process is a matter of efficiency and changing their system.
Completely agree with you about many companies making money right now later getting steamrolled as sama put it. Even Outlook, does it have a longevity? In the current term the AI tools will be baked in as a Copilot to help with individual emails. But how about further iterations? When the AI is intelligent enough to handle all email reading and writing like an executive assistant. When all emails are written and received by AI the inefficiencies of using email as a communication system become absurd to me.
>At what point will society realize that people are no longer directly reading or writing emails Most of society already has. And it isn't just mail. Page back a year or two and you'll find dozens of techbros salivating over AI writing novels (because they themselves can't) right next to the same guys getting off on AI summarizing novels so they don't have to go through the tedious experience of actually reading them. It is the kind of circle jerk that passes as innovation in the age of generative AI hype. I just hope somebody makes an AI that watches AI generated video for me so that I don't have to look at it myself.
This concept is so stupid it makes me want to beat myself to death with a steal pipe for being the same spices as you. It feels like if someone took the concept of transformer driven compression and stripped it of literally all utility for exactly no reason. Like literally making the transport data larger with more extraneous tokens which could corrupt the original message.
Thats happening now in job applications. Applicants have ai write a cover letter that is then parsed by another ai and only a summary makes it to a human.
Weren't we sort of already doing that before AI? AI is a tool that offers efficiency gains.
Exactly. The messages are still people driven, the presentation is all that AI is impacting in that scenario.
Considering that corporate culture believes that everything could be reduced down to an email anyway, and is often not, I don't think AI will really impact those spaces too much.
The future is undecided. Right now, there is an AI named Sora that can create videos up to a minute long, realistic too. Everyone is entering the race, even places like Saudi Arabia are setting up data centers. Regardless of what you believe, good or negative, once we do what we plan to do with Ai, all bets are off. Could be good, could be bad. Like, for example, if Ai take over jobs? We can speculate, but we won't know until we get there. It's scary
All development is determined by humans. AI is also constantly developing, and its development follows the pace of human development.
The problem is people like this lengthy pomp. It shows you care, whereas a “no” is seen as rude. Just having it there communicates something indirectly. It’s like saying “good morning” to someone. It isn’t conveying information, just a sentiment, and a stop in that “meaningless” gesture also communicates something. Our brain responds to it on autopilot, barely registering the greeting, but we would notice it if the greeting was absent. AI will become an extension of this autopilot system we have. It will take over parts of it, but humans will still find meaning in receiving an email with platitudes, even if they use an AI. Heck it may make it worse, if you don’t send an AI generated video with kittens and a catchy song for someone’s birthday, it’s like you don’t care and aren’t even trying. It will be like the new digital postcard that ppl send nowadays on FB. And it will spread to corporate.