Broken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.”
The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.
The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.
good time for a reminder that after 2 years of promising this, DMs are not end-to-end encrypted (outside of external services like Germ)
This piece was written in 2024 and once got nothing but good reviews and was still rejected, but finally here's our satirical research article "ProMe: Supporting the new Merit-Based Professoriate through AI-powered, Robot-Assisted Professional Development." Huge props to @fractalecho.bsky.social.
Dr. Damien P. Williams is under the vast indifference of heaven
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Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update.
This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.
One way you can tell LLMs are good and safe is when they are haunted by a mysterious lighthouse keeper
I first imagined this peice while in gradschool, though the idea was that a corrective "socially assistive robot" meant for autistic children would harass the researcher during a demo until they crashed out. 3/5