I’ve started using AI quite a bit to interpret documents. I’ll have some document within which is some nugget of information I want, so I’ll upload it to ChatGPT and say, “Read this and tell me [the thing that I want]…”
These feels lazy, but it’s got me wondering if maybe this is a reflection on the quality of documents we get? I just did this, and – for the record – I did make an attempt to figure it out myself. I started looking through the document, but there was just so much… fluff. I had a pretty targeted question, and I was wading through slide after slide of market posturing.
Will that be one of the enduring legacies of AI? It pretty easily reveals how poorly we communicate. Will the ever-present “competition” of AI interpretation be the impetus for people to write better, embellish less, and get to the point faster? Will we drop all the padding and posturing, knowing that it will cause most people to just punt to AI rather than wade through it all?