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My boss “writes” policies etc using ChatGPT. They’re generic, overly wordy and say nothing of original thought. I don’t read them and don’t care. When he sends
by RolandFlicket 3y ago
My boss “writes” policies etc using ChatGPT. They’re generic, overly wordy and say nothing of original thought. I don’t read them and don’t care. When he sends me a link to them in MS Teams I always click the first auto suggested response Teams like “Looks great!” Machine v machine.
- nperez 3y agoThat's hilarious. Someday we'll all be working QA, just scanning over AI output for issues, like manufactured goods passing by on a conveyor belt.
- Gud 3y agoWell at least that’s better than being QA’d by the AI.
- hospitalJail 3y ago>My boss “writes” policies etc using ChatGPT. They’re generic, overly wordy and say nothing of original thought. Isnt this good for a workplace policy? Wife had to do something similar and I'm happy it was overfit. I don't want some creative policy book.
- nickthegreek 3y agoI find that it is just real wordy by default. I commonly tell ChatGPT to be succinct.
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- gremlinsinc 3y agoI love Bing chat especially for the graphics it creates but I hate how every message says I'm Bing and I can help you with that...I get it.
- truculent 3y agoJust pass them into ChatGPT and ask for a summary - problem solved!
- starbugs 3y ago> Just pass them into ChatGPT and ask for a summary - problem solved! Ask for an overly polite answer instead. You don't need to mention that it should be wordy. GPT will take care of that naturally.
- bee_rider 3y agoI wonder what he feeds the AI. Maybe some nice concise bullet points, which are what you’d probably want. Maybe we’ll end up with dual layers of AI: one to expand out top-down requests, another to compress them to something efficient to read. We can also have engineers prompt the AI: write me a weekly status report on what I did. Here are my git commit logs and jira points. Emphasize (some topic). Then the owners can have the AI summarize those reports. Whole layers of middle management might be in danger.
- leetharris 3y agoI read an article about this sometime last year. Basically AI is the exact opposite of compression. We take what should be a few bullet points, turn it into some overly wordy bullshit with AI, then the recipient uses AI to turn that wordy bullshit back into a few bullet points. And it costs a ton of compute to do this. Kind of insane. I hope society evolves to work smarter.
- gremlinsinc 3y agoI think the compute is going to net zero eventually either through green energy or hopefully better technology, our brains are very efficient computers if we can build a computer that works like our brains, or figure out analog(light based) computers, etc we could maybe get 1000x the compute for the power of a flashlight.
- nicbou 3y ago
- bunderbunder 3y agoThere's a part of me that thinks that this is actually what's great about tools like ChatGPT. Such a huge percentage of typical intra-office communication is neither worth writing nor worth reading. It only happens because someone who will neither write nor read it has mandated that it must happen, and it's easier not to argue. Farming that work out to GPT, though, is excellent damage control. It minimizes the cost to write, and, as long as you can trust your colleagues not to do something antisocial like hiding important and original thoughts in the middle of a GPT sandwich, almost eliminates the cost to read.
- RandomLensman 3y agoBut with these tools you can do much more of those things. Instead of damage control, it might move it to a whole new level.
- gremlinsinc 3y agoyeah, I like the concept of bullet points in, lengthy email out, just to be translated back to bullet points at the other end, maybe eventually we just skip all the filler shit and bullet points become the norm, of course we can have ai help us brainstorm those too.
- busfahrer 3y agoThat's an interesting thought, whereas previously technology wrapped computer protocols (I send hello in chat and the computer will wrap and unwrap it in TCP for me), in your example we have the AI wrapping the message in social protocol.
- ThrowawayR2 3y agoThere's a rather good SMBC comic (from the same person who wrote "A City on Mars" recently) about that sort of thing and where it leads: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3576 https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3576 Seems more and more prescient by the day.
- hackerlight 3y agoHis mistake was not instructing it to be terse. AI output doesn't have to be more annoying and less dense than human output.
- gremlinsinc 3y agodo you read policies normally that weren't ai generated? I mean how many people never read the TOS or user policy?
- jijijijij 3y agoI hope at some point people will realize you can replace 95% of AI applications by a simple, stupid, very efficient interface. Guys, you are just cutting human interactions. We don't need AI for it. If it's AI end to end anyway, you can skip all the talking and just transmit whatever information directly. Not just text either, this extends to most everything, images as decoration, and whole websites enabled by super extra AI productivity. There is no point to human facing communication anymore, when everyone got AI to parse AI.
- bonton89 3y agoA guy I know is a manager and is a huge AI proponent and was telling me he writes one sentence about some one for a performance review and then has chatGPT blow it up into multiple paragraphs of machine generated corpospeak. I guess if his subordinates want to survive they'll have to use chatGPT to summerize that back down to the one sentence. This whole exercise reminds me of the two economists paying each other to eat piles of crap.