Got insincere flattery?

[firecat]

“But I had an epiphany. You know what all this sycophancy constantly being told you’re right, that you’re brilliant, that every decision is flawless? That sounds an awful lot like being a billionaire.”

[sic - perhaps the grammatical error is to show the writer is not an AI]

"The Secret Tool AI Uses to Seduce You: Explained," by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis

I use AI to get answers to simple questions and I hate when the bot addresses me personally. I hate it possibly to an irrational degree. (Even when someone else shares with me an AI convo they had, I get mad.) Do you use AI for anything and what do you think of this design choice?

Comments

[bitterlawngnome]

oh and also that specific case where I don't even know where to begin with a search query - I just throw a salad of words at it and see if it might come up with that one salient term I might need

Long-time Apple watcher Adam Engst

[jesse_the_k]

is hopeful. He frames AI's utility as moving from search engines to answer engines, providing some pre-Google history along the way.

Re: Long-time Apple watcher Adam Engst

[firecat]

DOGCOW GOES MOOF!

Thanks, I’ll check out the article.

Re: Long-time Apple watcher Adam Engst

[jesse_the_k]

Dogcow rolls on its back and joyfully shows its belly

[firecat]

Interesting, I’ll have to try that sometime.

[bitterlawngnome]

My theory is that word association is what it's good at so ...

[firecat]

Yeah, word association, that’s a good way to think about it.