I agree, if it delivers on the kind of demos they showed off here:
https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/
It's going to be an absolute "killer app".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
My god. If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
It’s true that sometimes people repeat mistakes of the past by iterating on a fundamentally bad idea.
But sometimes the idea wasn’t bad. The mistake of the past could have been in execution of the idea or tech limitations.
When any new VR product is released, I could post a link to the article for the Nintendo Virtual Boy and make a snarky remark about how successful that was. That doesn’t really add anything though.
Re:What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
by moffkalast on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:55PM
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She's built like a clippy, but she handles like a HAL.
The language model is willing but the weights are corrupted and flawed.
Got a good chuckle from me. I find that in quick daily back-and-forths, time saved by such a system would be negligible. In many places I've worked, the 'polite work mail' has gone out the door long ago, already at the lower bound of what is considered a proper sentence.
There was a science fiction story about this, with phone auto-message and auto-answer systems connecting with each other long after all the humans were dead.
Can you remember the story? It sounds thematically similar to "There Will Come Soft Rains", but the details don't match.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...
Relevant comic https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html
I think the microsoft gpt integration on Office is probably that app.
Ability to ask to have your email's summarised, or getting your excel sheets formulas configured with natural language, etc are increidbly useful tools to lower the floor of entry to tools that already speed up humans so much.
I don't think the use of this tools is some life redefining feature, but a friend of mine joked that in a year from now you will right a simple sentence like "write polite work email with following request: Come to the meeting, you are late" then Gpt will write the email, another gpt will send it and his GPT will sumarise it and he will reply with another gpt message instantly apologising that you will read the summary off. Leaving a trail of polite long messages that no one will even open.