alt Hacker NewsThis is really cool. I think we will see more of these, inching towards 'refined' thought and expression percolating from AI models into human minds.
I noticed that the quality of email text has gone up around my work these days. everyone is sounding like a master of drafting emails. Ofcourse Ai has a role in it. But real cool thing about this is, this is pulling up people's thinking to have a structure, minimalism and sequencing of expression. Same as how textile industry has enabled people to have an style and expression in clothing.
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It's not really good that email (and written content overall) quality has gone up. The problem is that there's tons of high quality content but no way to know which content is useful or good. Before we could know someone's personality from their style, now everyone's just wearing Balenciaga.
> textile industry has enabled people to have an style and expression in clothing
That’s a very good analogy!
I love this positive take :)
And, hilariously, as an AI booster, I personally dislike it, because now everyone sounds like they have a PR company ( and the same PR company come to think of it ). It was bad before in corporate land, but the level of standardization for optimized response is aggravating to me, when I am simply trying to have a short conversation.
Case in point, I reached about syllabus to my kid's teacher. Long story short, email ended in their boss, who sent me long winding non-answer that I had to resist to not knock down.
I dunno, generic executive summaries can be canned, but I would like to hope I pay them enough for an person to person exchange.
If they are copying and pasting the answers and replies how will it "pull up people's thinking"?
I have Ai read those emails and condense into one sentence summaries.
I’m not reading all that. I want one word answers.
Also noticed huge uptick in “call me” emails.
> everyone is sounding like a master of drafting emails
> this is pulling up people's thinking to have a structure, minimalism and sequencing of expression
I see the same for the former but the opposite on the latter. Everyone sounds like expert drafters because the AI is doing all of that.
True to the "use it or lose it" principle, the people's thinking skills about the emails have weakened. They rely on giving the AI some bits of info, a document they never read, some vague instructions, and the AI molds the message with structure and sequence. Then I get to experience live the joy of discussing with these people face to face and they still just spit out disparate bits of information with no fluid structure and sequence for the ideas because the only time they thought about the topic was when the AI wrote an email about it.
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> Same as how textile industry has enabled people to have an style and expression in clothing.
I'd tend to agree with what you said, except this part. Mass produced clothing is fantastic for many reasons, but not for style and expression. Look at the traditional clothing from almost any part of the world and it was gorgeous and colorful. Now it's all just a t-shirts.