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0 pointsmieubrisse3y ago0 comments

There's a thing I saw on LessWrong a while ago where he says, "Before declaring a thing impossible, ask, 'Have you put 5 minutes on the clock and just brainstormed?'"

In that spirit, here's me doing this about AI at Dropbox:

- Get consent from users and train a personalized AI on user files, to answer questions like, "Where is my meeting with Thiago?"

- Provide built-in support for number crunching on unstructured meeting notes: "How much revenue did we make, from last quarter's notes?"

- Automatically fine-tune a model using your own writing so that ChatGPT talks more like you

- Apply an AI to recognize security threats in your files("Hey you might have stored a secret in plaintext in file Y. Do you want to encrypt it?")

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bayindirh3y ago

Even being able to train a personal model on the user’s handwriting to digitize the notes will be a big hit. I would love to have that. I’m this close to train my own Tessaract instance to do it.

cwilkes3y ago

Those are great applications of AI. Still doesn’t explain about how DropBox canning 1/6th of the company will help them do that.

I can see DropBox making some interesting features for their products around AI. That’s going to require manpower to do it. Manpower that’s probably a little nervous about staying at a company that just did layoffs.

lostlogin3y ago

You’re thinking about AI from a Dropbox customer POV.

What if it’s more about using customer data to Dropbox’s advantage? Combined with the telemetry you can’t turn off, they can mine the shit out of users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35724939#35726399

ilyt3y ago

YOu forgot:

* find someone that will actually want to pay extra for their subscription on that.

lotsofpulp3y ago

And deliver it at a sufficiently better performance/utility to price ratio than Apple/Microsoft/Alphabet/Amazon/Meta can, and they might price it at zero.

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