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Back when ChatGPT first released there was a common meme of people writing up a list of bullet points and converting them into a formal, verbose email via AI, a
by paxys 2y ago
Back when ChatGPT first released there was a common meme of people writing up a list of bullet points and converting them into a formal, verbose email via AI, and the receiver then using AI to summarize that email back down to a list of bullet points. I imagine a ton of current use of LLMs is something of this sort.
- grahamj 2y agoIt’s like the inverse of compression for transmission
- bee_rider 2y agoIt would be cool if the system were integrated enough to just send the list along with it. Then the AI on the receiving could fake summarizing it by just revealing the original list.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoFunny as it is, it also hits close to home. Some people[0], at least in some cases[1], may really think in lists (or trees); many (most?) others prefer prose. Turning those structured thoughts into expected prose can sometimes be very time-consuming. I'm not ashamed to admit that, more than once, I used AI tools to turn a bullet-point-list-shaped brain dump into a first draft of an e-mail. I never sent it out without an almost complete rewrite, though - the point was just to get through the mental block caused by forced thinking mode switch. -- [0] - I suspect software devs more than company average, but I have no hard evidence for that, could be just my bias. [1] - Myself, often, when my mind is busy processing something else. In those situations, I write even more verbosely than my verbose usual.