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Hurrah! Now we can enter 3 bullet points, have an AI automatically turn them into 3 pages of waffle, and then copilot can automatically summarise those back int

Hurrah! Now we can enter 3 bullet points, have an AI automatically turn them into 3 pages of waffle, and then copilot can automatically summarise those back into bullet points again.

xen2xen1 4y ago
I'm.. Mostly fine with that.
- capableweb 4y ago
  Why / How?
arlcode 4y ago
I'm really hopping that waffle will become less relevant as human effort in it decreases.
cm2187 4y ago
And my mailbox will be full of 10 pages auto-generated memos. Progress.
- operator-name 4y ago
  We'll have AI to turn bullet points into memos, and the same AI to turn those memos back into bullet points. "They feed us poison / So we take their 'cures' / While they suppress our medicine." /s
MengerSponge 4y ago
Satire article from literally 20 years ago: Word 2004 to Pioneer AutoUnsummarize Feature https://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/12/autounsummarize.html https://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/12/autounsummarize.html
- fancyfredbot 4y ago
  That article is fantastic! I love "When asked for comment on the ethical issues present, Greenwood promised to have a five-thousand word report ready by Monday."
varispeed 4y ago
This is I don't understand. Why people prize waffle so much? They somehow think that if they type three sentences about something, it will not mean they spent week's worth of hard work to come up with them. So the extra time is being used on coming up with waffle, as a sort of self guilt tripping and then when this waffle is presented, the team understands the effort that had to be given into coming up with the waffle. Probably out of fear that if small, but actually meaningful output wouldn't correlate with the amount of work needed in the eyes of management and could cause losing one's job. This is an awful awful culture and rather than working to eradicate it, M$ is trying to embrace it. It's a massive drag on productivity and really a waste of money. Employees would be much happier if they could put feet up and relax after spending good amount of work, rather than stressing about how to sugar coat it and pad with content. The thing with AI is that it is very easy to spot that content is not written by human after reading enough of AI written text. So the copilot may work short term as an ailment for this, but what happens in a few months time, when everyone will know most presentations are just bs?
bitL 4y ago
Imagine the disconnect as nobody in the company will know what is going on when everything is auto-generated and people are only reading summaries.
- BarryMilo 4y ago
  Bullshit jobs indeed
adrian17 4y ago
In other words, looks like we've just invented a new negative compression scheme. Both sides of the conversation see a short message, while a longer one is sent over the wire.

Hurrah! Now we can enter 3 bullet points, have an AI automatically turn them into 3 pages of waffle, and then copilot can automatically summarise those back into bullet points again.

xen2xen1 4y ago

I'm.. Mostly fine with that.

capableweb 4y ago
Why / How?

arlcode 4y ago

I'm really hopping that waffle will become less relevant as human effort in it decreases.

cm2187 4y ago

And my mailbox will be full of 10 pages auto-generated memos. Progress.

operator-name 4y ago
We'll have AI to turn bullet points into memos, and the same AI to turn those memos back into bullet points. "They feed us poison / So we take their 'cures' / While they suppress our medicine." /s

MengerSponge 4y ago

Satire article from literally 20 years ago: Word 2004 to Pioneer AutoUnsummarize Feature https://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/12/autounsummarize.html https://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/12/autounsummarize.html

fancyfredbot 4y ago
That article is fantastic! I love "When asked for comment on the ethical issues present, Greenwood promised to have a five-thousand word report ready by Monday."

varispeed 4y ago

This is I don't understand. Why people prize waffle so much? They somehow think that if they type three sentences about something, it will not mean they spent week's worth of hard work to come up with them. So the extra time is being used on coming up with waffle, as a sort of self guilt tripping and then when this waffle is presented, the team understands the effort that had to be given into coming up with the waffle. Probably out of fear that if small, but actually meaningful output wouldn't correlate with the amount of work needed in the eyes of management and could cause losing one's job. This is an awful awful culture and rather than working to eradicate it, M$ is trying to embrace it. It's a massive drag on productivity and really a waste of money. Employees would be much happier if they could put feet up and relax after spending good amount of work, rather than stressing about how to sugar coat it and pad with content. The thing with AI is that it is very easy to spot that content is not written by human after reading enough of AI written text. So the copilot may work short term as an ailment for this, but what happens in a few months time, when everyone will know most presentations are just bs?

bitL 4y ago

Imagine the disconnect as nobody in the company will know what is going on when everything is auto-generated and people are only reading summaries.

BarryMilo 4y ago
Bullshit jobs indeed

adrian17 4y ago

In other words, looks like we've just invented a new negative compression scheme. Both sides of the conversation see a short message, while a longer one is sent over the wire.