WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family
WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family
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I love you too, Dad
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"Caden, it looks like Airlynn just said you're a hopeless loser, and she's been banging your personal trainer Chad. Is there anything else I can help you with?"
They're interjecting themselves between us and our contacts. They'll have the power to "summarize", which is also the power to subtly re-interpret meaning. The AI will be given a broad goal, and it will chip away at that goal bit by bit, across millions of summaries to mold public opinion.
To be fair, my father tends to make messages quite incomprehensible by adding irrelevant information all over the place. Sometimes going on for multiple screens while it could easily have been a 2-3 sentence message.
Sadly I think AI would even be worse at picking up what information is important from that. But I understand why people want it.
As for very active groupchats, I am not gonna read +25 messages a day, but being able to glance the gist of it would be awesome.
Tinder needs this function right now!
I get it, big stupid money hungry tech wants to put itself between you and every other person on earth for the almighty dollar.
How about we use tech to fix problems not create new ones!?
I don't use WhatsApp, but this immediately made me think of my dad who doesn't use any punctuation and frequently skips and misspells words. His messages are often very difficult to interpret, through no fault of his own (dyslexia).
Having an LLM do this for me would help both him and me.
He won't feel self conscious when I send a, "What you talkin' about Willis?" message, and I won't have to waste a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what he was trying to say.
If he’s not communicating in an explicit and clear way the AI can’t help you magically gain context. It will happily make up bullshit that sounds plausible though.
A poorly designed tool will do that, yes. An effective tool would do the same thing a person could do, except much quicker, and with greater success.
An LLM could be trained on the way a specific person communicates over time, and can be designed to complete a forensic breakdown of misspelt words e.g. reviewing the positioning of words with nearby letters in the keyboard, or identifying words that have different spellings but may be similar phonetically.
What makes you think the llm will be able to decipher something that already doesn't make sense
I have one specifically that is mostly bursts of 2 or 3 hours of chat between whoever is online in the group and with some worthwhile coordination messages mixed in at random. I don't want to read 80 messages about mortgage rates and VTI stocks to find a couple of lines I'm actually interested in about kid plans for the evening or something I'd actually care to talk about.
It does make sense in big groups with tons of irrelevant discussion but also few messages you actually need to read.
Ahh, intellect of the average American on display. So... -óóóh, is that a Donut?
Why are you making fun of topological toroidal surfaces mr smarty pants
CEOs are SO INTELLIGENT! I would NEVER have Thought to invest BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on Chatbots and Summarizers which ALREADY existed!
Trying not to be too douchey here, but ironically, your message is actually a very good example of where this technology could be beneficial.
IT is ACTUALLY not EASY to read a MESSAGE when THE CASE randomly SWITCHES back AND forth.
im going to ask chatgpt to give you a swirlie
It's not difficult lol. It's not particularly pleasant, sure, but perfectly comprehendable
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