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Once you look past the initial reaction of "oh cool a computer can do this!?" You quickly start running into the limitations. And if you're in a product team bu
by sensanaty 2y ago
Once you look past the initial reaction of "oh cool a computer can do this!?" You quickly start running into the limitations. And if you're in a product team building some AI feature (aka calling an OpenAI API 90% of the time), you realize even more how laughably useless it is in actuality.
For example Notion. They have an AI feature, and it's hilariously useless. It can barely even summarize things, yet alone write the rest of the document for you. Yet they push it constantly onto you with no way of disabling the crap.
What I have noticed is that the marketing people are in love with it, because it lets them generate the useless drivel they spam people with easier than before. I suspect they never used their brains much, but now they don't even have to at all!
Coincidentally, scammers also love it for similar reasons...
- fhd2 2y agoSame here. I know a number of sales and marketing people that just _won't_ shut up about ChatGPT, trying to get me to use it more the way it's useful to them. I know for a fact that there's nothing in it for them promoting it to me, they're honestly just in love. They do use it to write drivel. They write promotional posts, mass emails and LinkedIn requests, briefs for their conferences and events... The typing speed of one of these guys was about two words per minute, ChatGPT probably really does save him hours. I noticed he mostly uses voice input. When I say stuff like I want to think about what points to make he'd get confused, he'd just ask ChatGPT what points he could make. He doesn't even think about that part anymore. I can certainly see how those kinds of people will push product teams to integrate assistant features and happily promote them. It really does seem to be life changing for them. Personally, I can't relate though.