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I don't know if you've read The New York Times article about Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, who's now back with a woman-targeted AI assistant called "Dazzle," or heard about the ensuing brouhaha, so if not, let me summarize:
The piece starts off with Mayer explaining the wonders of Dazzle by way of an example. Mayer needed to create a slideshow about her 10-year-old daughter with a bullet-point list of three things that made her child special.
"But she felt overwhelmed by the range and complexity of potential answers," according to the article, so she turned to Dazzle, which spat out that her daughter was "empathetic, creative and an animal lover."
Perfect, she thought.
Dazzle also helped Mayer design a themed birthday party for her teenage son — a glow-in-the-dark pool party — and even found neon pool toys and party favors she could buy.
"A lot of what excites me is taking something that used to take you hours or minutes, and now getting it done in seconds," said Mayer, originally famous for taking just two...