Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff

Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by ignoramous on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:15AM (#35728413)

As an example: Dropbox can answer questions from the documents you've shared with them. They stand a good chance as anyone else to build a "personal chatgpt" / "enterprise chatgpt". Dropbox is also big on photos, I believe, the latest advancements give them a shot at taking on Google Photos.

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by thesimon on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:28AM (#35728661)

But how can you be certain that the answer is actually correct instead of just sounding correct?

ChatGPT can come up with completely made-up answers that just seem right.

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by williamdclt on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:32AM (#35728730)

and yet it keeps being a useful tool.

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by wruza on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:51AM (#35729022)

Most companies work that way already, even small ones. Doesn’t end the world (doesn’t make it a perfect place to live in either).

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by nicenewtemp84 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:55AM (#35729083)

That's basically as good as the average coworker in most companies, and more useful still than the lower end of coworkers I've had.

I describe AI as a new intern or assistant. Pretty useful, but don't bet your company on their answer.

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by passion__desire on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:35AM (#35729681)

By citing references? which were used to generate the answer.

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by bentt on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:20AM (#35728500)

I actually love this angle. Personally trained models based on our own data. They have the storage infra. They also have a means of distributed compute since they are installed on so many PCs. If they werent an annoying and aimless product I would be excited!

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by dspillett on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:35AM (#35728782)

> Personally trained models based on our own data.

This leads back to one of the AI promises if the earlier Internet, before WWW when Usenet, Gopher, and a number of other ideas, were where we were heading, and for a time after WWW's popularity before search engines hit certain quality/coverage levels: an intelligent search agent trained on information about you that would go off and scour the various data resources for you and return an optimal set of results after a while, perhaps even idly looking around and finding things you might search for but hadn't thought to ask it for yet.

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Re:Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 s... by emdashcomma on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:14PM (#35730324)

This reminds me of the first 25 seconds of this clip from The Matrix: https://youtu.be/Smwrw4sNCxE

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