Five hours is enough time to watch a New York Mets game. It is enough time to listen to the Spice Girls’ “Spice” album , Paul Simon’s “Paul Simon” album and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 . It is enough time to roast a chicken, text your friends that you’ve roasted a chicken and prepare for an impromptu dinner party.
My bot, unsurprisingly, couldn’t match the emotional tone of any online conversation. And I spend a lot of the week, because of hybrid work, having online conversations. “Maybe with your journalistic voice, you can write a nicer sentence than I just have,” Renee wrote to me on Slack. Given the amount of time I spend online talking to colleagues — about the news, story ideas, occasionally “Love Is Blind” — it was disconcerting stripping those communications of any personality.
Friedman recently asked Copilot to draft a memo, using his notes, recommending one of his employees for a promotion. The recommendation worked. He estimated that two hours’ worth of work was completed in six minutes.“In the future, you’re going to get an email and someone will be like, ‘Did you even read it?’ And you’ll be like, ‘No,’ and then they’ll be like, ‘Well, I didn’t write the response to you,’” said Matt Buechele, 33, a comedy writer who also makes TikToks about office communications.
After a few minutes of back-and-forth, I was desperate to talk with Jordyn in person. I was losing patience with the bot’s cloying tone. I missed my own stupid jokes, and normal voice.