Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o...
by elorant on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:45PM
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It certainly has use cases, but they’re more marketing oriented. It can help people who’re not fluent in English write better copy, it can do low key reporting work by writing articles from press releases, it can summarize or classify text, or do sentiment analysis. There are probably a couple of billion in revenues in there with various APIs. But it just isn’t the next big thing as we’ve led to believe the last few weeks. The kind of technology that could give Microsoft a fighting chance against Google.
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Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o...
by wpietri on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:59PM
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> low key reporting work by writing articles from press releases
That is not journalism. It is the opposite of journalism.
Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o...
by elorant on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:00PM
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I didn't said journalism, I said reporting. A lot of the stuff in news outlets are copies of press releases.
Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o...
by wpietri on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:20PM
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I think "reporting" is a term without an agreed definition outside of journalistic context. But I'd be happy to argue that it isn't reporting either.
I agree that there are plenty of outlets that might qualify as news-shaped, or perhaps news-flavored. They might use AI-rewritten press releases. E.g., CNET's private-equity slide into untrustworthiness. But these things are basically parasitic on actual journalism. So although this is technically a use case for ChatGPT, it's a societally negative one.
Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o...
by jsemrau on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:08PM
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It is important to manage the human/AI interaction in the right way.
Asking conversational AI for the truth won't work because they are not built in this way. At least for now.
We applied this insight in creating TikTok videos. https://medium.finclout.io/everything-in-this-video-is-gener...
And while a lot of the basic parts of creativity can be handed over, the implementation of the higher parts of creativity are still firmly in human hands.
Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o...
by bjelkeman-again on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:20PM
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A lot of the human language translation business seems it can be significantly augmented with these tools. We took som content, asked it to be translated to another language. Asked it to tighten up the translation a bit. End result was really very good.