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2 problems with suggestions: 1) there is a sort order to them. And we don't know how the 'recommendations' work. What is a recommendation? Why is Google recomm
by WirelessGigabit 3y ago
2 problems with suggestions:
1) there is a sort order to them. And we don't know how the 'recommendations' work. What is a recommendation? Why is Google recommending something over something else?
2) it bogs down creativity. You end up not thinking and accepting the suggestion as 'good' enough.
- Tagbert 3y agoMost writing does not need creativity. It is wrote communication. If you want to put some creativity into something or write something where you want to write with some personality, then turn off the predictions or use it just for spell check.
- maroonblazer 3y agoMy job requires me to correspond with dozens of people over email, Teams, and Slack every day. We're all trying to get work done and need our communications to be as succinct as possible. Sure, occasionally I might dress it up to add some humor, but that's ~1% of cases. An AI, with access to my entire corpus of work-related communication, could likely very easily predict most of my communications, since they fall into a small set of categories. "When can I expect to get $workproduct?" "Here's when I can commit to getting you $workproduct" "What's the estimated date for $milestone?" "Here's the project plan for $initiative" "I can't make this meeting, can you be sure to record it?" I welcome any tool that can predict what I want to type and does it for me. I'm not sure if it's my imagination or not but Outlook and Teams seem to have gotten better in this regard. I'll take more of that.
- nojs 3y ago> it bogs down creativity. You end up not thinking and accepting the suggestion as 'good' enough. This is why I stopped using copilot autocomplete in my IDE. Once you see a suggestion, you can’t make your brain un-see it.