theFutureOfCommunication
theFutureOfCommunication
Write a series of single query per e-mail.
Set then up on delayed delivery every hour through their workday.
It only takes once or twice until people read your entire e-mails.
I certainly would rather focus on making money for myself then a company if those are my two choices during work hours.
But really, I’d rather be farming and playing with my daughter.
I remember when compression was popularized, like mp3 and jpg, people would run experiments where they would convert lossy to lossy to lossy to lossy over and over and then share the final image, which was this overcooked nightmare
I wonder if a similar dynamic applies to the scenario presented in the comic with AI summarization and expansion of topics. Start with a few bullet points have it expand that to a paragraph or so, have it summarize it back down to bullet points, repeat 4-5 times, then see how far off you get from the original point.
In my experience, LLMs aren’t really that good at summarizing
It’s more like they can “rewrite more concisely” which is a bit different
If it isn’t accurate to the source material, it isn’t concise.
LLMs are good at reducing word count.

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translation party!
Throw Japanese into English into Japanese into English ad nauseum, untill an ‘equilibrium’ statement is reached.
… Which was quite often nowhere near the original statement, in either language… but at least the translation algorithm agreed with itself.
Gradually watermelon… I like shapes.
Twisted translations
Summarizing requires understanding what’s important, and LLMs don’t “understand” anything.
They can reduce word counts, and they have some statistical models that can tell them which words are fillers. But, the hilarious state of Apple Intelligence shows how frequently that breaks.
A couple decades ago, novelty and souvenir shops would sell stuffed parrots which would electronically record a brief clip of what they heard and then repeat it back to you.
If you said "Hello" to a parrot and then set it down next to another one, it took only a couple of iterations between the parrots to turn it into high pitched squealing.
i was curious so i tried it with chatgpt. here are the chat links:
first expansion first summary second expansion second summary third expansion third summary fourth expansion fourth summary fifth expansion fifth summary sixth expansion sixth summary
overall it didn’t seem too bad. it sort of started focusing on the ecological and astrobiological side of the same topic but didn’t completely drift. to be honest, i think it would have done a lot worse if i made the prompt less specific. if it was just “summarize this text” and “expand on these points” i think chatgpt would get very distracted
Doesn’t chatgpy remember the context of the previous question and text?
Maybe a difference in accounts and llms makes a bigget difference.
Real Genius (1985)
Wanting to talk to other human beings and only getting responses from AI/LLMs is horrible, and a detriment the humanity solving its problems (which may be the point).
What is the link for?
Why would this prevent us from doing anything?
It’s an anti commercial license. The thought is that, they don’t mind if people copy their comments, save them, re use them, etcetera, they just don’t want people to make money off of them, likely this is a response to AI companies profiting off of user comments
However I’m not sure if just linking the license without context that the comment itself is meant to be licensed as such would be effective if it came down to brass tacks I don’t know if it would hold up.
Instead they should say something like
‘this work is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license’
I’m also not sure how it works with the licenses of the instance it’s posted on, and the instances that federate with, store and reproduce the content.
Sounds like some sovereign citizen bullshit to me.
People deserve more control over their data and lives but lets not go kidding ourselves.
I’m also not sure how it works with the licenses of the instance it’s posted on, and the instances that federate with, store and reproduce the content.
My understanding is a license would stays with the content, no matter where the content is replicated. I also declare that my content is licensed in my user account description as well.
As far as the labeling goes, I normally have it say a little more than what I did in my last comment. Having read your comment and double checking on the Creative Commons site, I did decide to change it to be more descriptive as you advised.
But if you go back through my personal comment history, about nine and a half months or so, you’ll see that there’s been a large quantity conversation about this licensing link, so having just recently returned to Lemmy I was trying to shorten it down, figuring just the actual license information itself was enough of the declaration.
~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~
I’ve noticed this a lot lately. Extremely long winded and well written emails that could just be a few bullet points.
Give me the human version please. If your email fills my entire screen it’s going through the GPT gauntlet and if your point is lost that’s kinda on you.
Companies are only a few years away from being able to fire the majority of their office workers and replace them with AI.
If you think I am wrong, you fail to understand office work or the rapid pace at which AI is advancing.
Our technological advancement is on the precipice of outpacing our ability to adapt to it; that ends very badly for most people.
Sorry this is just plain wrong and there’s no evidence of this at all.
People have been saying this since the invention of the comptometer.
Anyone who’s job can be replaced by an LLM isnt producing any value.
For the rest of us it’s an incremental improvement at best.
Anyone who’s job can be replaced by an LLM isnt producing any value.
Well, that’s the problem right there, isn’t it, that a lot of jobs don’t actually produce any real value.