It's staggering to me how many use cases for AI revolve around summarizing overly long work documents and memos, a use case that doesn't need to exist if your company has a culture of concise communication.
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It's staggering to me how many use cases for AI revolve around summarizing overly long work documents and memos, a use case that doesn't need to exist if your company has a culture of concise communication.
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It's staggering to me how many use cases for AI revolve around summarizing overly long work documents and memos, a use case that doesn't need to exist if your company has a culture of concise communication.
Like, let’s put aside how executive-brained this particular use case is. The crazy thing is how preventable the need is, if the people in your company are good at communicating. We’re spending billions on data centers to avoid reading documents we didn’t need to begin with.
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It's staggering to me how many use cases for AI revolve around summarizing overly long work documents and memos, a use case that doesn't need to exist if your company has a culture of concise communication.
@jhpot FACTS. Capitalism encourages the production of human slop to justify middle management and consulting paychecks. And even THAT summarization use case is certainly overblown hype!...
Pip (@pip@infosec.exchange)
@ieeespectrum@threads.net Hi, this article includes a major technical error that needs to be corrected: The "Simple Article Summaries" feature, does not summarize text. LLMs are incapable of doing so, and for the IEEE to imply the opposite is extremely problematic. More details here: https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/
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It's staggering to me how many use cases for AI revolve around summarizing overly long work documents and memos, a use case that doesn't need to exist if your company has a culture of concise communication.
@jhpot I imagine it often happens like this:
Person A has the job of communicating something to others. Person A writes a concise text which is given as input to an "AI" system which auto-generates a lengthy document. The long machine-generated bullshit text is then sent to the poor recipient person B, who resorts to "AI" to summarize it since they don't want to read anything that long.
I just wonder what is gained compared to A just giving the concise text to B and skipping the "AI" part.
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Like, let’s put aside how executive-brained this particular use case is. The crazy thing is how preventable the need is, if the people in your company are good at communicating. We’re spending billions on data centers to avoid reading documents we didn’t need to begin with.
@jhpot I think the point is precisely that it's executive-brained. The documents cannot be short even if they're concise because there's a lot of information. And executives don't trust their subordinates with actual domain expertise so they want to be able to get summaries of what's in the documents that let them pretend they understand and micromanage the people they distrust.
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@jhpot I think the point is precisely that it's executive-brained. The documents cannot be short even if they're concise because there's a lot of information. And executives don't trust their subordinates with actual domain expertise so they want to be able to get summaries of what's in the documents that let them pretend they understand and micromanage the people they distrust.
@dalias You're completely right.
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Like, let’s put aside how executive-brained this particular use case is. The crazy thing is how preventable the need is, if the people in your company are good at communicating. We’re spending billions on data centers to avoid reading documents we didn’t need to begin with.
@jhpot I feel like we have AI writing documents for AI to summarize.
Kind of like twenty years ago, the founder of TurnItIn also owned a university paper writing service. He could catch the plagiarizers because he sold them the papers TII caught.
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It's staggering to me how many use cases for AI revolve around summarizing overly long work documents and memos, a use case that doesn't need to exist if your company has a culture of concise communication.
@jhpot and the next most common use cases are generation of large documents from a set of bullet points.
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Like, let’s put aside how executive-brained this particular use case is. The crazy thing is how preventable the need is, if the people in your company are good at communicating. We’re spending billions on data centers to avoid reading documents we didn’t need to begin with.
@jhpot I think to some extent this is actually the reverse: we are summarizing long documents to justify spending billions building data centers
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It's staggering to me how many use cases for AI revolve around summarizing overly long work documents and memos, a use case that doesn't need to exist if your company has a culture of concise communication.
@jhpot I met someone once who told me their entire job consisted of creating long wordy write-ups of work done by their subordinates (which they used AI for, obviously) to send them to their supervisor who would then use LLM to have it summarised, and they kept telling me how great this technology is...
...and seemingly didn't understand that nothing in this entire process could possibly add value.
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@jhpot I met someone once who told me their entire job consisted of creating long wordy write-ups of work done by their subordinates (which they used AI for, obviously) to send them to their supervisor who would then use LLM to have it summarised, and they kept telling me how great this technology is...
...and seemingly didn't understand that nothing in this entire process could possibly add value.
@eseilt increasing our ability to do things we don't need to do
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