[kennywinker]

My complaint is this image is supposed to tell the story of how this stuff is useful or new. Finding a message from earlier in the same day and then paraphrasing the message instead of just showing it isn’t useful or new. A simple keyword search uses infinitely fewer GPUs and finds me the info as fast without the risk of hallucinations or datacenter driven environmental collapse.

But for whatever reason - because this stuff is mostly useless, because they’ve all got ai psychosis, or because of general dysfunction in the corporate structure - they can’t come up with a better example.

[nozzlegear]

> But for whatever reason - because this stuff is mostly useless, because they’ve all got ai psychosis, or because of general dysfunction in the corporate structure - they can’t come up with a better example.

More likely, they just wanted an image that shows it can search your text messages for context. Most people still aren't familiar with AI, so having a very simple example image[¹] for people who may not have used an AI search tool before is useful.

[¹] I'm sure you and I can both think of more complex questions to pose to the Skinner box, but we're both familiar with AI and know what to expect.

[kennywinker]

> Most people still aren't familiar with AI

I don’t think that’s true. Who are these blissfully unaware masses, and how do I join them?

I guess it depends on your definition of “familiar”, but it’s in the news every single day, and you can’t even google something without being slapped in the face with it. I feel like the only people left unfamiliar are people who have no access to the internet - and by definition they aren’t buying iPhones

[haute_cuisine]

When there're no real use-cases or solved problems, they have to come up with some fillers, probably Claude suggested this slide.