alt Hacker NewsAI Horseless Carriages
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I'm so inspired!
This is so dumb that it makes my head hurt.
The metaphor is apt, but the conclusion is, while imaginative, ridiculous.
What we currently refer to as “AI,” as the author correctly notes, is nothing more than a next-word-predictor, or, if you’re wild, a projection of an infinite-dimensional sliding space onto a totally arbitrary, nonlinear approximation. It could be exactly correct and perfect in every way, but it’s not.
This tool will never be an accountant. This tool should never write production code. This tool is actually quite useful for exploring purely-understood problem spaces in materials science.
It’s also good for generating plausible-sounding nonsense that is only sometimes reliable enough to avoid writing emails to your wife.
No thank you from me. I think I’ll continue participating in my own life, rather than automating away the trivially simple parts that make life worth living
Hinted by this article, next version of Gmail system prompt might craft system prompt specifically for the author, with insight even the author himself not aware of.
"You're Greg, a 45 year old husband, father, lawyer, burn-out, narcissist ...
Is it just me or is even his “this is what good looks like” example have a prompt longer than the desired output email?
So again what’s the point here
People writing blog posts about AI semi-automating something that literally takes 15 seconds
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At the moment, there's no AI stuff at all, it's just a rock-solid cross-platform IMAP client. Maybe in the future we'll tack on AI stuff like everyone else, but as opt-in-only.
Gmail itself seems untrustworthy now, with all the forced Gemini creep.
> You avoid all unnecessary words and you often omit punctuation or leave misspellings unaddressed because it's not a big deal
There is nothing that pisses me off more than people that care little enough about their communication with me that they can’t be bothered to fix their ** punctuation and capitals.
Some people just can’t spell, and I don’t blame them, but if you are capable and not doing so is just a sign of how little you care.
modern car basically horseless carriage, it just has an extensive windshield to cope with the speed that increased since then
by that logic we can expect future AI tools mostly evolve in a way to shield the user from side-effects of it's speed and power