Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to 'easily chat with documents'
Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to 'easily chat with documents'
Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to 'easily chat with documents'
Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to 'easily chat with documents'
Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to 'easily chat with documents'Seeing this news about Acrobat makes me think a bit about the days when Microsoft PowerPoint became of the biggest ever time-wasters for corporate managers. Now any MBA paid millions of dollars to ruin people's lives could fancy themself a miniature movie director, wasting hours on playing with clipart and fancy slide transitions and other such things, feeling the entire time that they were hard at work.
I'm semi-convinced that many terrible decisions in software are best explained by assuming that the real audience for the decisions is corporate executives who don't want software to be a useful and efficient tool, but something like a gigantic playbox that keeps them infinitely preoccupied and feeling busy merely from noodling around all day. And what could be more conducive to fruitless noodling than giving these executives the illusion that they can chat with their software? It hardly matters if the chat is incoherent gibberish; executives tend to talk in gibberish already.
~Χαρά
