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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by bandrami on Saturday June 14, 2025 @05:32PM (#44278985)
How actually useful are they though? We've had more than a year now of saying these things 10X knowledge workers and creatives, so.... where is the output? Is there a new office suite I can try? 10 times as many mobile apps? A huge new library of ebooks? Is this actually in practice producing things beyond Ghibli memes and RETVRN nostalgia slop?
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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by 2muchcoffeeman on Saturday June 14, 2025 @05:40PM (#44279028)
I think it largely depends on what you’re writing. I’ve had it reply to corporate emails which is good since I need to sound professional not human.

If I’m coding it still needs a lot of baby sitting and sometimes I’m much faster than it.

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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by Gigachad on Saturday June 14, 2025 @05:59PM (#44279121)
And then the person on the end is using AI to summarise the email back to normal English. To what end?
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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by js8 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @06:35PM (#44279284)
But look the GDP has increased!
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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by bandrami on Saturday June 14, 2025 @06:51PM (#44279376)
But that's what I don't get: it hasn't in that scenario because that doesn't lead to a greater circulation of money at any point. And that's the big thing I'm looking for: something AI has created that consumers are willing to pay for. Because if that doesn't end up happening no amount of sunk investment is going to save the ecosystem.
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Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and wh... by bandrami on Saturday June 14, 2025 @06:27PM (#44279256)
So this would be an interesting output to measure but I have no idea how we would do that: has the volume of corporate email gone up? Or the time spent creating it gone down?
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