Tom Fishburne | marketoonist.com
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A man sitting at his computer tells a woman A.I. TURNS THIS SINGLE BULLET POINT INTO A LONG EMAIL I CAN PRETEND I WROTE.
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A woman sitting at her computer tells a man A.I. MAKES A SINGLE BULLET POINT OUT OF THIS LONG EMAIL I CAN PRETEND I READ.
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And they’ll claim productivity was increased on both ends
Oh geez, early on in my current career I sent a one-paragraph project report, because it had been very little work and not complex.
My then manager loved his buzzwords and long pointless meetings, he told me my report wasn’t adequate even though it had all the relevant info.
So, I just added a pile of extra bullshit that didn’t say anything at all. And that fucker loved it.
I went and found another job soon afterwards.
That’ll be ten thousand dollars and your water supply please
cash or card?
And the end bullet point is also wrong!
So was the long list.
It’s like file compression, but the other way round.
Management loves AI because management’s job is to write emails and reports, not to actually communicate meaningful information.
The question is: the bullet point written and the bullet point read will differ.
Most of the time yes. But sometimes no. Only way to know for sure is to read the original point.
It all comes down to communication theory…
that’s the neat part - it’s completely unknowable
The truly hilarious thing in this scenario is that the bullet point he wrote and the bullet point she gets will be completely different. Their communication will be literally lost in translation.
Normalise terse and succinct communication and life will be less fucking stupid. The problem does not reside in the tool but in our garbage culture of waste.
If a job can be done by AI it’s probably a bullshit job.
David Graeber, rolling in his graever.
I predicted this 6 years ago. It’s automating corpo email ceremonies. Now all we need is to turn this into a chat app for this.
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