Post by @kims@mas.to

2026-10-26 00:43 UTC

This is just so bleak "Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and Marielle’s teacher wanted three bullet points summarizing what made her special. Mayer — the former chief executive of Yahoo and a pioneer at Google, where she was the first female engineer — likes cracking a hard problem. But she felt overwhelmed by the range and complexity of potential answers. So Mayer asked her personal A.I. assistant, Dazzle. Within a few seconds, Dazzle delivered an answer. “It came back and was like, your daughter is empathetic, creative and an animal lover,” Mayer said. She thought it was perfect." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/style/marissa-mayer-ai-assistants-women.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LlE.Pd6S.asvWuB4qCloE&smid=url-share

Replies (10)

@mattblaze@federate.social 2026-10-26 00:47

@kims@mas.to Not much light between AI and cold reading here.

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@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io 2026-10-26 01:04

@kims@mas.to Why is the first use case all these people reach for always “it keeps me from having to know my children”

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@passthejoe@ruby.social 2026-10-26 01:21

@kims@mas.to pathetic

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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2026-10-26 01:30

@kims@mas.to so it's not so much "#AI will replace us" as it is "chuds will have AI replace themselves" and then AI will replace the rest of us when chuds are in power or rather, their agents in power, because "idgaf, AI you do it"

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@tito_swineflu@sfba.social 2026-10-26 01:39

@kims@mas.to Ha ha, but what school was it, NYT? No-one ever mentions the name of the school.

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@Amoshias@esq.social 2026-10-26 01:40

@kims@mas.to this might be the bleakest thing I've ever read.

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@RunRichRun@mastodon.social 2026-10-26 01:44

@kims@mas.to Makes Mayer sound... sad -- among other things. Children are such messy, annoying things when the nanny's not around. 🙃

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@joecardillo@federate.social 2026-10-26 01:46

@kims@mas.to “She asked Dazzle a second time, and it came back and was like, your daughter is intuitive, inspired and a puzzle lover,” Mayer said. “So she asked Dazzle a third time, and it came back and was like, your daughter is compassionate, curious and a pretzel lover." "So she asked Dazzle a fourth time, and it came back and was like, your daughter is convivial, sanguine, and a pretzel." "She'd spent her whole career communicating with humans, but thought it was perfect she no longer had to."

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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-10-26 03:17

@kims@mas.to @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io holy _shit_ how can these people not hear themselves when they talk

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@eestileib@tech.lgbt 2026-10-26 05:05

@kims@mas.to I walked through Marissa's kitchen once. It was huge, spotless, showed no sign of any cooking having taken place, and had a computer on one of the counters showing a slideshow. Every picture in the slideshow was of Marissa.

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