Agreed, can't let Google discover my morning brew concoction.
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Well, AI would have prevented the grammatical error in that sentence.
It doesn't have to be. I use it to make my technical jargon emails more concise and friendlier to read.
Google devs don't realize that humans looking to buy things don't read much past the title.
Sounds good in theory, but I can't tell you how many times I've had people ask me questions about a listing when the answers are literally in the listing.
Sounds good in theory, but I can't tell you how many times I've had people ask me questions about a listing when the answers are literally in the listing.
So we might have to get used to getting mails from friends that they did not even write themselves. I hate that idea.
I've found that the less details chatGPT gets the more roundabout the results get, just to pad out the length. I have a feeling your boss didn't even have well organized bullet points to begin with.
This means his instructions to ChatGPT were poor and that he didn’t review the content before handing it off to you to iterate on the instructions. ChatGPT can write some amazing stuff — and create some great code — but only if you put in the required effort. It’s not a magic mind reader.
Using calculators in and of itself is probably not the culprit, but instead how early kids are taught with calculators. I've found that people from countries that don't allow calculators until high school or college tend to have a much better grasp of numbers even if they rarely do manual calculations later on in life. I think when you start too early your brain gets optimized for calculator use rather than math concepts and I imagine the same thing will happen with language and writing with LLMs.
That's not AI's fault, it's your bosses fault for not knowing how to prompt. Rewrite this email in the format of Smart Brevity would have given you pretty much what you wanted.
AI absolutely is a productivity booster, but like all tools people have to learn how to use it.
Yeah that does make one wonder if google automatically provide footnotes to the source?
That is indeed a requirement made worse by this AI if you use other parties text in educational activities? Can't exactly say my text was written by google AI and be acceptable. I can also envision copyright violations to sources.
Maybe easier for regular folks to read, but no way would it be more concise. Technical jargon, by its very nature strips away the extraneous. You can't get more concise than technical jargon; it's their raise d'etre.
Give me an example where AI wrote something concise. Every example I've seen from AI writing has been long winded.
If the instructions necessary for ChatGPT to be concise requires exacting details, I'd be better of writing it myself and in a fraction of the time it would take to write the instructions.
Many decades ago, when I was a high school student, I had an amazing English teacher who didn't do word counts or page counts. She read every essay the students turned in. She taught us that an essay should be like a skirt: long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.
Until AI can meet that standard, I would have to do heavy editing on anything AI spits out. Either it won't have enough content or it will be unnecessarily verbose.
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Great, more garbage bloat to make Chrome even more unwieldy. Just what it needed.
A little embellishment here, a couple of white lies there. We’re just getting started down a dangerous path.
With the calculator and laptop students stopped learning how to do basic arithmetic.
Basic writing skills is next.
Basic writing skills is next.
Then, all of a sudden, Apple released something similar for Safari, and everyone lauds it as the best thing ever. Hopefully, Apple will focus on the most essential issues they have yet to get right in Safari before they worry about adding AI features.
Teachers, at least at the college level have an online service called ‘Turn It In’ which reports plagiarized assignments. Everything that students turn in is then added to their data base and will report a student that turns in something they have already turned in for another class. That program is now reporting on probable AI use.
Another give away is the student that cannot write a paragraph in class that isn’t full of grammar and spelling errors suddenly turns in a perfectly written assignment.
Go get an English Grammar book or two, start reading the classics up through the 20th century and presto you'll learn to write more cogently and with your own style.
If I could offer just one piece of advice it would be this. Stop using Chrome. Google just revamped Chrome with ad tracking 2.0. They are calling this new system the "Privacy sandbox" but what it amounts to is a system where third party cookies are blocked and only Google can track you. But with tracking built into the browser there will be no way to block tracking anymore.
If you don't like this then support Firefox. If you don't already know Firefox is a non-profit open source project. Don't just trust that Safari will be any better in the long term. If Apples stock ever slides shareholders will demand action and the shareholders are king. If Firefox dies then so does the free and open Internet.
If you don't like this then support Firefox. If you don't already know Firefox is a non-profit open source project. Don't just trust that Safari will be any better in the long term. If Apples stock ever slides shareholders will demand action and the shareholders are king. If Firefox dies then so does the free and open Internet.