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Former Yahoo CEO Needed AI to Help Describe What Makes Her Own Daughter Special
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Former Yahoo CEO Needed AI to Help Describe What Makes Her Own Daughter Special

Gizmodo·AJ Dellinger·about 6 hours ago
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Marissa Mayer, the original Silicon Valley girlboss, is back with a new artificial intelligence tool specifically for moms. Specifically, moms who don’t really like doing mom stuff.

In a profile of Mayer and her new AI assistant, called Dazzle , the New York Times provided an anecdote , presumably passed on to the reporter by Mayer herself, to highlight how this agent has made her life easier—though, if anything, it shows Mayer performing the exact kind of cognitive offloading that any AI tool worth its salt should free us up to focus on rather than doing for us.

Per The Times, Mayer said that she was asked by her daughter’s teacher to come up with three things that make her daughter special as part of a celebration of her daughter’s 10th birthday. Mayer, apparently feeling overwhelmed by the task, asked Dazzle to do it for her. “It came back and was like, your daughter is empathetic, creative and an animal lover,” Mayer told the Times .…

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