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Apple surpasses Microsoft as world's most valuable company after unveiling AI plans (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 5 months ago by boem to c/technology

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[–] RGB3x3 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing it does is anything we haven't seen before. And if Siri is any indication, it won't be all that useful in the real world.

The problem I see with AI is that it seemingly takes just as long to figure out how to ask the AI what you want as it takes going into the app and just reading an email or writing a message. And then when it summarizes, how can you really trust that it hasn't misconstrued something that you could have caught by reading it?

[–] chrash0 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you’ve not seen the type of email chains i get at work. personally i think it should be illegal to respond-all to an email chain with hundreds of people with “Great job team!!! 🎉”. but it would be great to have a LM to read it near instantaneously for me to be like “oh yeah there was a product release and here’s a few relevant metrics”. doesn’t matter if it’s 100% in on every subtle detail, and a decent summary could tell me where or if i even should dig into details.

[–] RGB3x3 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I could see that. AI seems like an expensive solution to just getting people to stop clicking "reply all" though.

Kinda crazy that the easier solution may not be changing people's behavior, but creating an entire system capable of reading and understanding text.

[–] chrash0 1 points 5 months ago

not sure what you mean by expensive. i run language models on my laptop that are pretty good at this type of task. and, yes, these models are infinitely easier and cheaper ultimately than trying to change the human proclivity for attention seeking behavior.