• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Maybe I’m just old and stuck in my ways, but I don’t see the upside here. Why would I need Google’s AI to be able to tell the tone of my messages and respond appropriately. They’re my messages. People send me messages to talk to me. In what world do I want to remove myself from that process?

    If my wife texts me and says “when are you going to be home from work?” I don’t want an AI looking at my chat history and making a guess. I want to tell her what I have going on right now and respond. If a friend asks me if I wanna hang out this weekend, I don’t want AI checking my calendar and seeing I’m free and then agreeing to plans. I want to think about it and come to a decision myself.

    Can someone smarter than me point to an actual good use case for this?

    • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      The AI isn’t really for you; if it works for you, great. If not, it’s more training data. Remember you’re not the customer.

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      2 years ago

      You know those people who want send one text, but they use the enter key as punctuation so it arrives as 37 texts?

      You know

      Something like

      This?

      Maybe

      Well

      For some people

      It’s not this bad

      But I’m sure we all have that

      ONE

      Person

      Who does something like this.

      AI can summarize all those text messages and tell you wtf they actually want in one single message and one single notification! (Hypothetically, lol)

      • Landsharkgun@midwest.social
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        2 years ago

        Suppressing repeated notifications has been a thing since messaging has been a thing. If your service doesn’t offer it, find a better one. Also, this is a hypothetical, and a bad one. Why would you not simply read the texts?