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Re:Introducing Notion AI by ren_engineer on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:51AM (#33625116)
seems like they wanted to launch an "AI" feature as fast as possible, so they took the easiest route which is basically just creating a UI wrapper around GPT-3 for generic text generation

that's what it looks like to me at least, I don't see anything here that 50 other generic GPT-3 tools don't already do. It's just embedded in Notion

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Re:Introducing Notion AI by TillE on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:37AM (#33625971)
I like to call this "AI (or ML) as a blunt instrument". You just plug in the model, map inputs to outputs in the most straightforward way.

In some cases that can work, but generally you want to massage the inputs and outputs a lot more than that.

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Re:Introducing Notion AI by kyawzazaw on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:01AM (#33625326)
I think they would consider it a success if the existence of that tool drives people to spend more time in Notion

Doesn't have to be revolutionary. It helps to be "in just 1 place"

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Re:Introducing Notion AI by ren_engineer on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:14PM (#33626693)
true, plus I imagine it gives them potential for some usage based pricing to increase revenue from power users
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