I had to come up with a proposal to build a new R&D centre recently. To provide context on what our company does, I wrote a web scraper to scrape our own website (faster than going to IT) using Replit Agent and then fed that into O1 as context to come up with the proposal.
The noise was the proposal, which was no doubt several pages at least.
The signal was "we should build a new R&D centre".
Am I missing anything? Did you feed the AI some financial figures or other information that couldn't be found on company website? If so, that would also be part of the signal.
It reminds me of an experiment in which people wanted to cut in line. Saying "can I cut in front of you because I'm in a hurry?" was significantly more successful than saying "can I cut in front of you?", even though they are essentially the same. (I read about this in the book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion).
AI generated reports, proposals, and other fluff, can make things seem so much more persuasive. Alice is going to ask her AI to turn her 1 sentence into 5 paragraphs, and then Bob is going to ask his AI to summarize the 5 paragraphs into 1 sentence.
both you and another highlynupvoted poster have said some versioj "never going back" or "dont want to go back" or "the tools that exist now are already insane"
And while I'm happy for you, I don't see the relevance? this post was not about "going back" or "stopping the use of AI tools" at all?
If you managed to get the content by scraping the home website, did you really need to build a scraper to collect this and feed it into input for a model and have it spit out a proposal that you probably proofread anyhow? Or, could you have simply taken your own knowledge of the company, regurgitated some generic corporate speak yourself on top of that, and came up with more or less the same end product in maybe even less time?
I had to come up with a proposal to build a new R&D centre recently. To provide context on what our company does, I wrote a web scraper to scrape our own website (faster than going to IT) using Replit Agent and then fed that into O1 as context to come up with the proposal.
In less than an hour.
There is no going back.