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Chrome for Mac Gains 'Help Me Write' Generative AI Feature

Eventually kids will be like Ralph Wiggum.
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mike2q said:
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.
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Firefox users are the biggest hypocrites claiming Mozilla cares about privacy while taking money from Google to push their search engine.

If you guys truly cared about privacy and not just blind hatred for anything running on Chromium, you'd recommend LibreWolf and not Firefox. Even Brave is more privacy-respecting out of the box.
 
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America is circling the drain. I stumbled across this Reddit thread recently and it kind of blew my mind:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1av4y2y


Americans are in such deep denial over how stupid our country is getting and all of this AI stuff is only going to throw gasoline on the fire. Sure, generative AI is very impressive tech, but given the sorry state of affairs when it comes to education, this is only going to make the overall situation worse.
 
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I dont care how good Chrome gets, I will never install it because of how much RAM it uses. It just wants more with every version.
 
I am curious if Apple will adopt a similar feature. I know they will take their time making it the best it can be.
 
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ignatius345 said:
Honestly it would have been easier if he had just sent me some bullet points so I didn't have to sift through all that.
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I prefer bullet points and outline format. A professor warned us he would return any paper containing words such as basically, actually, very.
 
klasma said:
“Okay, here's a generic comment you could use on MacRumors:”

"I'm excited to see what Apple has in store for their upcoming product lineup. They always seem to push the boundaries of innovation, and I can't wait to see how they continue to improve their devices. Fingers crossed for some exciting announcements soon!"

Hits the mark rather well, actually.
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"me not like."
 
ignatius345 said:
I just had to clean up a long email my boss had "composed" with ChatGPT. Everything was really roundabout and poorly organized. Honestly it would have been easier if he had just sent me some bullet points so I didn't have to sift through all that.
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I give ChatGPT standing orders to be concise. Works wonders. It's way too wordy by default.
 
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theluggage said:
Input: ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Output: "This powerful new product will promote the growth of the company."

(Reference if you don't get it...)
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The background is much appreciated. The fact it was updated on my bday makes me think it was especially meant for me to see 😂
 
Mousse said:
Good gawd, AI writing is unnecessarily verbose. What could be said in 2 sentences becomes a whole page. Every review have a TL;DR section that was what was originally written. The 2 page long review will be what the AI wrote.😬

Students will love AI writing. It's an easy way to get that 20 page essay the teachers never read.😏
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TL;DR 😉

But honestly, if people begin trading again this could be a net positive but I highly doubt it considering the TL;DR also written by AI summarizing all of the reviews on Amazon for example.

As a technology enthusiast I’m slowly beginning to understand the Luddites.
 
Paradoxally said:
Firefox users are the biggest hypocrites claiming Mozilla cares about privacy while taking money from Google to push their search engine.
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Wow. Good thing that a company like Apple would never promote their privacy stance and also accept $18bn (allegedly) to make Google the default search on iOS.

... oh
 
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deepspacecowboy said:
America is circling the drain. I stumbled across this Reddit thread recently and it kind of blew my mind:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1av4y2y


Americans are in such deep denial over how stupid our country is getting and all of this AI stuff is only going to throw gasoline on the fire. Sure, generative AI is very impressive tech, but given the sorry state of affairs when it comes to education, this is only going to make the overall situation worse.
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My English teacher who was a Vanderbilt University Masters/later PhD educator offered a Greek/Latin class in high school. This was Spring 1986 right after the Challenger. He cited a curious problem with American and it boiled down to a lack of curiosity and reading.

The common vernacular for the average American in 1900, not including slang, was 1500 unique words in their daily discourse between their peers. Harvard released an update in '86 and that common vernacular was down to 400 unique words, out of over one million words, not including over 800k slang words, colloquialisms, catch-phrases, solecisms, and catachreses, nicknames and vulgarisms known as Slang and Unconventional English 8th Edition by Eric Partridge (bless this man for he and his team have created one of the most important works in the history of English).

Here's the rub. The average formal education in 1900 was sixth grade. Today, twelfth grade.

You can spend weeks on end learning amazing new aspects of English or Spanish, Italian, whatever your native language and be enriched.

Today, we are ‘too busy' to educate ourselves.
 
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“Ok, here’s a sarcastic and stereotypical comment you could use on MacRumors:”

Does this new Chrome generative AI feature make Safari snappier?
 
Time saved for the producer of text, time wasted in the extreme for the receiver. Productivity will go down as the receiver of text will just skim text and not read anything as it will not have value.

Next BIG product is AI text Reader of composed AI text to descramble gobbledygook.
 
Mousse said:
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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Literally tell it to be more concise and it will be.

Also, when writing code, it can be pretty parsimonious too.
 
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