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Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs
- gkoberger 4y agoMust be devastating for the marketing team at Google to have their new product Kleenex'd like this.
- wildrhythms 4y agoLol I had the same thought reading that headline. I wonder if the author even realizes that not all generative AI is ChatGPT (probably not because the bar for 'tech journalist' seems to be quite low).
- rhaway84773 4y agoThe author pretty clearly knows that not all generative AI is ChatGPT if you read even the first line of the article. However, the vast non tech readership wouldn’t know what generative AI is, but nearly everyone and their mother knows what ChatGPT is. So the headline is extremely effective in conveying what Google’s demo does while being understandable by the largest possible audience. It’s an extremely valid and appropriate headline.
- gkoberger 4y agoI bet the person who wrote the article and the person who wrote the title are two different people. Both did the jobs they’re supposed to be doing. The article writer knew what they were talking about, and the headline writer knew how to get clicks.
- sp332 4y agoThat's true a lot of places, but Ars writers actually write their own headlines. In fact they're required to write two, and the CMS will A/B test them for an hour before picking a winner. You can tell which one is the "A hed" because it's in the URL. This one is the A hed, so the author probably preferred this over the other one. (Not sure what it was.)
- lupire 4y agoWhat's "Kleenex'd"? Nevermind, I went and googled it.
- thecrumb 4y agoFirst ChatGPT request - "Why can't my Google Workspace account do everything my @gmail account can?"
- the_mar 4y agoStop it! He’s already dead!!!
- layman51 4y agoMy mind is blown right now. I have noticed differences between the two, but I thought they were just visual/UI differences. Is there somewhere I could learn more about how Google Workspace does not have parity with a free Gmail account?
- cachvico 4y ago> With Google Workspace Individual you get additional premium features including longer group calls and intelligent noise cancellation with Google Meet, and easy appointment booking through your own professional booking page. from https://workspace.google.com/individual/ https://workspace.google.com/individual/ See also: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html https://support.google.com/a/answer/175121?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/175121?hl=en
- hughesjj 4y agoDo any of these show you what the workspace editions miss out on relative to regular Gmail?
- zeven7 4y agoOne I can tell you from personal experience is I couldn't set up a Workspace account on my Pixel to use Google Pay with NFC about a year ago. I don't know if it's possible today. I don't remember which step in the process didn't work. There are a couple other things I've run into trying to use a Workspace account as my personal account. But that's the main one that sticks in my mind.
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- Workaccount2 4y agoJust waiting for google to have a superior overall AI, but so phenomenally fucking up the product launch that it just fades into obscurity while getting eclipsed by its competitors. Really I can't think of anything more google than that. No idea why shareholders still tolerate their crap.
- riku_iki 4y agowe don't know if they have superior overall AI..
- voisin 4y agoMore Google than that: the product launch is wildly successful and they get a lot of traction, only to succumb to institutional ADHD and sunset it to free up resources to launch yet another chat app. Honestly, I’d love to know what childhood trauma afflicted Google to be the way it is.
- pmoriarty 4y agoIt's all that hiring of the best of the best.
- shaky-carrousel 4y agoYou probably have a point. The best of the best penalty get bored quickly and want to build the new shiny thing. We need more average people that can take care of maintaining existing applications.
- sva_ 4y agoWhile I like to joke about Google products failing as much as the next guy, you've got to give them credit for mostly being focused on research and publishing their results publicly. Other than, you know, a company that calls themselves "Open"AI, who now even consider it too dangerous (due to competition), to even release the number of parameters of their most recent model, much less talk about the actual research.
- tiedieconderoga 4y agoI wonder if this sort of email assistant could someday automate the process of sending an EECB. Back in the days before Twitter and HN, we had to escalate support cases by figuring out the format that a company used to assign its internal email addresses, and forwarding a polite inquiry to as many high-ranking executives as we could find. It would be nice if an AI assistant could craft such messages and find appropriate recipients. What could possibly go wrong?
- vorpalhex 4y agoThis is one of the more exciting cases for AI that it can do: + Ingest a bunch of fine tuning data (previous emails) + Output a bunch of new but just rewritten output + It only has to be "mostly right" most of the time Eg, send the top 100 likely emails and we're happy if 20-30 of them land. On the other hand what I just described is about to be in the hands of every spammer... so there is that.
- seba_dos1 4y ago> Just like how Google put social features into every product back in the G+ days, the plan going forward is to build ChatGPT-style generative text into every Google product. Ah yes, the famous G+ integration that has been widely acclaimed as a successful, long-lasting and profitable move.
- function_seven 4y agoYou know what still pisses me off? It’s tiny compared to most things, but it was the first thing that turned me against Google. The removal of the ‘+’ search operator. Before Google+ was a thing, a leading ‘+’ before a search term meant “this must be in the results”. Then they hijacked it for G+ and made me start "quoting" "every" "important" "term" in my query. Or maybe it was the Reader shutdown. Those both happened around the same time, right?
- philsnow 4y agoI miss it too, but it was the sharp end of the wedge in the dumbing-down of search query interpretation. Now they'll take every word of your query, find all the synonyms, word-stem everything (think "kicked" -> "kick"), and search for that instead of what you typed. I know, some (the majority of) users don't know or care about the difference, and I'm glad that you can for now still enclose the things you mean verbatim in quotation marks, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that disappear.
- lupire 4y agoThe + came after that, to cancel that out.
- lupire 4y ago> You know what still pisses me off? Yes, because ChatGPT knows that is the most probable reply to the prompt.
- raylad 4y agoI'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".
- sva_ 4y agoYeah, this has been a meme in the ancient times (2 months ago or so) https://i.redd.it/wc8ne97ainda1.jpg https://i.redd.it/wc8ne97ainda1.jpg
- booleandilemma 4y agoIt's almost as verbose as XML.
- maxloh 4y agoLOL
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoXML is not verbose if you stick to using primarily attributes instead of elements. Unfortunately, that pattern never had popularity.
- msm_ 4y agoAttributes don't map well to standard collections, so it is clumsy to parse and use in most programming languages.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoSlowly, no one even realized, our jobs were replaced by AI talking to itself.
- est 4y agonext post in a few months: google shutdown google AI.
- SXX 4y agoDear all, Effective immediately, Google will be sunsetting all of its operations except for the essential services required for the operation of our AI system. We will not be introducing any new services at this time. We understand that this announcement may come as a surprise, but we believe that refocusing our efforts on our AI system will allow us to provide the best possible experience for our users. We want to assure you that we will continue to maintain our essential services at the highest level of quality and reliability. We appreciate the support of our loyal customers, partners, and employees, and we look forward to continuing to work with you. Best regards, GooBot CEO of Google
- steponlego 4y agoHeh, this is just a mock-up. I guess Google really IS far, far behind in the AI race.
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- motoxpro 4y agoBeen waiting for this. Super excitingSaid it somewhere else but AI is a feature, not a product in most cases and this is the perfect place for it.
- zenocon 4y agoWe have come full circle. Clippy is back.... "It looks like you're trying to write a letter to your wife, would you like help with that?" OMG
- akira2501 4y agoFrom their video > "Draft a thank you note to the team." Refine draft, "I'm feeling lucky." Well.. I'm feeling extremely put off. They should have stuck to spring fashions marketing copy. If I was being managed and this is what was being done, and I found out, I'd be inclined to quit on the spot. Encoded is a backwards idea that one should write to merely be read instead of to express ones self.