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highplainsdem

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24. You can already have AI write emails for you, given just a few words as a

Reply to Chainfire (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 23, 2023, 03:16 PM

Sep 2023

prompt. And the person receiving it can have their AI assistant boil it down to just a few words, then take a response given in just a few human words and turn it into a much longer email, which your AI assistant will summarize for you, and so on forever.

Which not only is a seriously dumb and expensive way to communucate (expensive in terms of computer time and environmental cost; using something like ChatGPT for just a few prompts can require a liter of water for cooling at the data center), but potentially the most pointless, wrongheaded game of Telephone ever played.

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Microsoft: AI tools can lift "the cognitive load of thinking" & "nudge you in the right direction" [View all] highplainsdem Sep 2023 OP

My team is experimenting with AI for prototyping Happy Hoosier Sep 2023 #1

I have seen AI companies try to relabel their AI's hallucinations or errors as highplainsdem Sep 2023 #22

Or it could just speak for you, relieving you of all that dreadful thought and contemplation. Chainfire Sep 2023 #2

You can already have AI write emails for you, given just a few words as a highplainsdem Sep 2023 #24

Nope, Nope, Nope Best_man23 Sep 2023 #3

Sorry, I'm not subcontracting my thought processes to a bot EYESORE 9001 Sep 2023 #4

Better Living Through Microsoft AI: Give us your credit card number and leave the driving to us dalton99a Sep 2023 #5

"nudge you in the right direction" and what prey tell is the "right" direction? Of course what the mitch96 Sep 2023 #6

That's what I thought, too. It could lead you miles leftyladyfrommo Sep 2023 #8

I think that's the point. 2naSalit Sep 2023 #21

lifting our cognitive burden, and nudging us in the right direction? patphil Sep 2023 #7

"the cognitive load of thinking"!!! Did that phrase give others the same chill niyad Sep 2023 #9

That's exactly why I posted this as soon as I saw the article. highplainsdem Sep 2023 #10

And I thank you for doing so. niyad Sep 2023 #11

You're welcome. I spend a lot of time skimming AI news, and I've been attacked here highplainsdem Sep 2023 #12

"Attacked" edisdead Sep 2023 #14

LOL! Another predictable reply from someone who just called the OP "paranoia" in another highplainsdem Sep 2023 #15

I mean it was a predictable post that I was replying to. edisdead Sep 2023 #16

The paranoia over this is amusing edisdead Sep 2023 #13

I'm sorry you can't see that all the warnings about AI and resistance to it highplainsdem Sep 2023 #17

Uh huh edisdead Sep 2023 #18

Tell me, which side are you on in the strike by WGA and SAG-AFTRA that's in highplainsdem Sep 2023 #20

AI and robotics scare me to death. The music and art leftyladyfrommo Sep 2023 #25

The humans pushing AI are shortsighted. Or so selfish they don't give a damn how highplainsdem Sep 2023 #26

I'm so tired of cognitive thinking. milestogo Sep 2023 #19

The AI peddlers want us to view it that way. highplainsdem Sep 2023 #27

cognitive load of thinking HAB911 Sep 2023 #23

I wish it were just funny. I might've seen it as funny if I hadn't already highplainsdem Sep 2023 #28

I wish they would just get it over with and stop telling me BootinUp Sep 2023 #29

They have to make money off it. They can't unless a lot of highplainsdem Sep 2023 #30