#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.
@rodhilton just starting the countdown until we get the first employment discrimination settlement that includes a generated email.
The writer, rightfully claiming that they did not in fact, type the words. The reader, displaying the AI shortened message, based on some admin configuration.
@gatesvp yeah I think that the whole AI hype cycle in general is going to really brush up against issues of responsibility in a hurry.
Your AI-powered self-driving car hits someone. Are you responsible? You just enabled a feature of the car. Is the AI responsible? It's an algorithm. Is the company who built it? No, they weren't there.
If your AI chooses who to fire and it turns out to be a bunch of protected class employees, who gets sued? The employer or the builder of LayoffBot?
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