“Deployed on everything, Apple and Google’s AIs end up assuming strange roles, acting like personal assistants for administrative work but also for … talking to your friends and family? It’s mediation for mediation’s sake. Like a lot of first-wave AI tools, these are features that exist because they’re newly possible, not necessarily because they make sense.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/chatgpt-gmail-apple-intelligence-ai-summaries.html
Summary as operational language.
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