45. Weird Assistants

Picking up Zadie Smith after a long time away has me all in my feels about how much I have missed her excellent way with words. On my current reading docket is her essay collection: Dead and Alive.

One of the essays in the collection is The Instrumentalist: On Tar from which an exchange (which could be LLM adjacent) comes from:

Assistant: I received another weird email from Krista. How should I
reply?
Tár: Don’t.
Assistant: This one felt particularly desperate.

I suppose LLMs could become our put-upon personal assistants agents.



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