Rod HiltonMay 10, 2023

#GoogleIO revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.

1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.

2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.

Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?

Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.

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@rodhilton In similar news, Google have a feature where your phone can answer your calls for you, and Duplex which could phone someone up on your behalf. They wrote two AIs that could converse *in spoken English* complete with ums and ahs.
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Show threadRod HiltonMay 10, 2023

@andrewt Here's another one.

Introducing tools to allow AI-based generation of images, as well as tools to detect AI-generated images

This is the very definition of selling both the poison and the cure.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-introduces-new-features-to-help-identify-ai-images-in-search-and-elsewhere/

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