Google AI will help you “be more productive” by writing thank-you notes, said Google’s VP of Devices and Services, Rick Osterloh, in an interview with Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal ($/£). Osterloh says putting down the pen and switching to digital thank-yous helped him write “10 times more emails than handwritten thank you notes.” In the future, AI will help us write exponentially more thank-you notes in even less time.
Doesn't that make you feel sad? The problem is the impersonal nature of such a feature. Google’s AI can do the things a human can do, but it isn’t the things themselves that are important – it’s doing them.
