[HN Gopher] Misguided Apple Intelligence ads
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       Misguided Apple Intelligence ads
        
       Author : mrzool
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2024-11-11 22:39 UTC (21 minutes ago)
        
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       | vundercind wrote:
       | Is it just critics and writers on the internet not taking these
       | ads as jokes, or are normal people also reading them as serious?
       | That seems to me the key question re: whether these are mistakes.
        
         | smnrg wrote:
         | Those humans. When will they stop?
         | 
         | (This should also be read as a joke.)
        
       | rty32 wrote:
       | > In the first ad, Apple Intelligence enables a goof-off who
       | wastes time and annoys his colleagues to surprise his boss with
       | an unexpectedly well-written email. It's not clear that the boss
       | is impressed; he just can't believe the guy would have written a
       | professional message.
       | 
       | This feels... weird. If the ad was released early 2023, it would
       | still be relevant. But hey, we are now at Nov 2024, exactly after
       | two years after ChatGPT was released. Anyone who has been half
       | paying attention to "AI" wouldn't be impressed any more with a
       | formal, professionally written email from anybody. Saying that as
       | someone whose performance review had evidence of being "enhanced"
       | with ChatGPT but didn't find it surprising.
       | 
       | Well, what's more weird is the setup itself. Do bosses expect to
       | read this kind of super formal email from their direct reports?
       | Do people actually write first versions of emails like that?
       | Something is off here. At least I don't think it ever occurred to
       | me that I need to "rewrite an email to my boss using a
       | professional tone" to my direct boss.
        
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