AI summary is a boring presentation slide

I think the fundamental thing I’m realising is that it’s a boring presentation slide. I would also associate it with a pamphlet given to you. What do you do with a pamphlet? It is like a pamphlet for the new pizza shop in your locality. You maybe look at the pictures and throw it away.

If a person comes up and speaks to you, maybe you listen for one or two minutes. You might then say, “Okay, you know what? I’ll give it a go.” The human element is so important, I think.

If pamphlets worked, then newsreaders would become AI presenters. Entertainment could become entirely AI, with human beings watching robots fight. Maybe it is entertaining for someone who is into robots. But perhaps they are not interested only in the robots; they might be more interested in how humans are reacting to a performance of robots, like the Chinese robotic sporting event, where it was interesting to see how people were reacting to the robots falling off or breaking away. But I think the human element matters to general people.

When I watch something, I try to learn something from it. I think, “Okay, if I was in that situation, how would I go about it?” Sometimes I feel a bit proud that I would not have done the wrong thing that a person did. There is a bit of learning from things. We silently learn a bit of personality. We silently learn how to become, I guess, more funny. We learn how to become more sensitive. We become more aware.

If it is just AI preaching, that is where I think it is going to become very cringy. When right and wrong is being determined by AI, people are going to switch off. If AI keeps saying, “You shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that,” people are eventually going to say, “Get lost.”

I am beginning to come to the opinion that it does not matter how many AI models fuse together. They may eventually create one giant pamphlet. That giant pamphlet may be full of information. It may be succinct. Everything may be perfect in it. Every small detail may be mentioned. And you may still just be like, “Yeah, okay.”

I think that is the problem. Reading it can become a bit draining. You can also read blogs or articles which are a bit more entertaining. The entertaining aspect is missing. I think that is very serious.

AI summaries are efficient. I think they work very well in an office setup. You have office trainings where you have to sit through the whole thing. But you are utterly bored.

You are being told, “This is the module.” “These are the technicalities.” “This is how it flows.” “This is what will happen.” “These are the rules.” “These are the protocols.” “This is how you do it.” “This is the button.”

You are explaining things which may be useful, but it becomes utterly boring. It is similar to a classroom with a boring lecture on technical detail. The same professor, when he starts talking in a more interesting manner, becomes engaging. The boring professor may have a lot to say which is extremely, extraordinarily useful. But people are sleeping.

If AI tries to bring humour into it, then it has to somehow attribute that humour. It is very difficult for AI to introduce humour and then not give it a voice. I think it is going to be very strange to have ChatGPT develop a human-like personality and start cracking jokes. It can become a bit cringeworthy. People may feel, “I don’t want to be entertained by AI.”

When I am in trouble, I may want to see my friend or my family member. At that time, yes, maybe I can also chat with ChatGPT. But I may still want to retain some human thoughts that chatting with ChatGPT may not give me. ChatGPT may give me a lot of answers. But I would not necessarily come away thinking, “You know what? I had an entertaining time.”

Sometimes you spend time with friends and talk about here and there. There is no structure. There is nothing particularly organised about it. And afterwards you simply feel, “You know what? I had a fun day.” That fun element is what ChatGPT is not about.