https://www.computerworld.com/article/4021949/openai-goes-fo...
Nothing says that they are close to AGI and that ChatGPT5 was a raging success more than an office suite. They already have study mode, so definitely you know they are full of ideas and totally not stagnating and unprofitable with huge compute debt.
I tend to agree with you, I miss the blockhain times.
LLMs allow the generation of symbols and characters (calling it "articles", "essays" or "source code" is an exaggeration) too quickly for us to edit and almost too quickly for us to have a second thought and assess what we are reading. When your eyes have seen so much slop in such quick succession, your brain starts normalizing it and you are more likely to stop noticing.
There goes your good taste, there goes your critical thinking.
And of course, you get into these discussions now: "I pasted this prompt in Claude and my feature was done in 5 min, why did it take you two days?". I shudder thinking what further enshittification the future holds.
There goes your good taste, there goes your critical thinking."
Yes exactly!
It takes a rare mix of visionary thought and discipline to do it well.
A level of general experimentation by companies and other organizations is clearly warranted, and it should be marked accordingly. This just isn't happening in a lot of places: "become 10x more productive or bye-bye" is just totally ludicrous stance to take.
So it's good to see some reports coming out where some attempt at actual measurement and assessment of efficacy has been made.
If this would have been true, Microsoft would be an obscure SW vendor.
illusive4080•5mo ago
It is particularly good, as most AI is, at text summary. Whether that is summarizing what I’ve missed in a meeting, action items, or even finding a needle in a large haystack of a document.
On the other hand, I find it wholly lacking in the search/discovery of documents in SharePoint and surfacing important emails. There is no way for me to tell it that “such and such executive call” has no importance to me, or that “help please” is the most important email in my inbox.
utyop22•5mo ago
But the real question is - does it matter? What benefit did you get from using the non-alternate phrasing vs the alternate phrasing?
It's not the same trade off as performing computation via a calculator to do more high value work vs doing it by hand without it.