4 ms·

Using AI to summarize a message by saying what the message says in the same amount of words as the message So helpful!

nozzlegear 5mo ago
Is your complaint that the example text message in the image wasn't three paragraphs long? It's just showing search results.
- kennywinker 5mo ago
  My complaint is this image is supposed to tell the story of how this stuff is useful or new. Finding a message from earlier in the same day and then paraphrasing the message instead of just showing it isn’t useful or new. A simple keyword search uses infinitely fewer GPUs and finds me the info as fast without the risk of hallucinations or datacenter driven environmental collapse. But for whatever reason - because this stuff is mostly useless, because they’ve all got ai psychosis, or because of general dysfunction in the corporate structure - they can’t come up with a better example.
  - haute_cuisine 5mo ago
    When there're no real use-cases or solved problems, they have to come up with some fillers, probably Claude suggested this slide.
  - nozzlegear 5mo ago
    > But for whatever reason - because this stuff is mostly useless, because they’ve all got ai psychosis, or because of general dysfunction in the corporate structure - they can’t come up with a better example. More likely, they just wanted an image that shows it can search your text messages for context. Most people still aren't familiar with AI, so having a very simple example image[¹] for people who may not have used an AI search tool before is useful. [¹] I'm sure you and I can both think of more complex questions to pose to the Skinner box, but we're both familiar with AI and know what to expect.
    - kennywinker 5mo ago
      > Most people still aren't familiar with AI I don’t think that’s true. Who are these blissfully unaware masses, and how do I join them? I guess it depends on your definition of “familiar”, but it’s in the news every single day, and you can’t even google something without being slapped in the face with it. I feel like the only people left unfamiliar are people who have no access to the internet - and by definition they aren’t buying iPhones

Is your complaint that the example text message in the image wasn't three paragraphs long? It's just showing search results.

kennywinker 5mo ago
My complaint is this image is supposed to tell the story of how this stuff is useful or new. Finding a message from earlier in the same day and then paraphrasing the message instead of just showing it isn’t useful or new. A simple keyword search uses infinitely fewer GPUs and finds me the info as fast without the risk of hallucinations or datacenter driven environmental collapse. But for whatever reason - because this stuff is mostly useless, because they’ve all got ai psychosis, or because of general dysfunction in the corporate structure - they can’t come up with a better example.
- haute_cuisine 5mo ago
  When there're no real use-cases or solved problems, they have to come up with some fillers, probably Claude suggested this slide.
- nozzlegear 5mo ago
  > But for whatever reason - because this stuff is mostly useless, because they’ve all got ai psychosis, or because of general dysfunction in the corporate structure - they can’t come up with a better example. More likely, they just wanted an image that shows it can search your text messages for context. Most people still aren't familiar with AI, so having a very simple example image[¹] for people who may not have used an AI search tool before is useful. [¹] I'm sure you and I can both think of more complex questions to pose to the Skinner box, but we're both familiar with AI and know what to expect.
  - kennywinker 5mo ago
    > Most people still aren't familiar with AI I don’t think that’s true. Who are these blissfully unaware masses, and how do I join them? I guess it depends on your definition of “familiar”, but it’s in the news every single day, and you can’t even google something without being slapped in the face with it. I feel like the only people left unfamiliar are people who have no access to the internet - and by definition they aren’t buying iPhones