I like how AI note takers are basically converting the useless act of a meeting into an email because an email is a better product that someone can reference.
If you meeting needs to be converted into an email to make it useful maybe you should just write more emails and have fewer meetings.
If it can be summarized into an email without anyone else’s input, it was a bad meeting and should’ve been a mail to start with. A good meeting is not about transferring freely available info, but about discussion and decision making.
using an ai for inside meeting is totally safe and secure, and totally not a gdpr nightmare
I work for a company that must remain gdpr compliant, and when joining (ms teams) meetings you can’t unmute your mic or share content without agreeing to a massive AI waiver.
Sounds like a great reason not to use it.
I never accept the terms. If people ask why I’m not talking I write “I can’t accept the AI conditions” in the meeting chat.
Nice, I assume most people would get annoyed though.
A real hero would start talking about viagra and car insurance, and get the meeting emails flagged as spam.
Just start reading subject lines from spam emails.
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Gift cards as well
…virtual note takers? we don’t even write our own fucking notes anymore?..
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Okay, okay, I get it :D AI indeed has some uses.
Ngl, it’s actually pretty handy.
If I could trust it to consider the same points important that I do and have the same understanding of them.
They merely report what was said, nothing (much) more, nothing less.
Literally one of the only good apllications for AI.
Really?? All the AI note takers I’ve seen suck farts.
The fans can just use regular air from the room to cool the computer. You don’t actually need to fart into them.
yeah. I had a 5 hour QBR this week with 18 in-person attendees and 7 virtual where we didn’t even take a pee break. I was presenting 90% of it so it’s hard to take my own notes. I give AI the transcript, the virtual note taker, and the slide deck and my personal notes and describe how I want the output and it gives me a recap of the highlights, discussion, action items that then I can email to stakeholders and to project mgmt to set up next step tasks in Asana.
The one benefit of AI I’ve actually found useful.
Transcribing meetings is quite useful if you want to quickly check something later on.
Summarizing that is useful to get the gist of it if you missed the meeting.
You ever listen to a whole meeting? Not for me!
How about including mention of wanting to start a union or union activity with everyone in the group and how you are all wanting to join forces as ‘workers of the world uniting!’ … then read as much Karl Marx text as you can in 30 seconds.
Management would love to see those flags on their alerts from everyone in the office.
Nobody would bet an eye you would do this in Europe.
Ahhh Google Meet. In the corporate world when we see a company using Google Meet we assume they are cheap and we will need to really talk discounts etc with them. It’s sadly normally true.
Depends on what part of the company you are dealing with - in engineering we’re usually a bit annoyed when anything other gets used simply because meeting software clients for Linux are either shitty or nonexistent.
Jitsi.
I tried to make Jitsi happen, but given that majority of out customers and vendors have google workspace there is little incentive to not use meet.
You could always keep it open for internal usage, or offer it as a backup for when Cloudflare oopsies the internet or smth. It’s how we did the meeting that should have been an email at where I work, the day Clownstrike hit.
Funny. In the tech world we see zoom vs google meet as zoom is for people who have exclusively soft skills I don’t want to talk to anyway. When I see a google meeting I know I’m going to be talking to someone useful.
Kinda off-topic, but am I the only one who usually joins meetings five minutes early? I hate being late, and that way I give myself five minutes of peaceful troubleshooting time if my mic doesn’t connect, for example.
That would annoy me, since Teams shows a “meeting started” popup when the first person joins a meeting.
Sounds like a(nother) Teams issue.
but wouldn’t then people understand that the meeting has not yet begun? it’d be like a door opening at x:55 when the class starts at x+1:00, an open invitation to start gathering but the official start is in 5 minutes as scheduled
Sometimes people take other people joining early as a cue that the meeting starts early, so there’s a chance I’d miss stuff. Our company is very good with meetings actually making sense, so missing 5 minutes can be quite annoying.
okay question because i don’t know if i’m out of touch with corporate culture or just not american- are you amarican?
because afaik in Europe it’d be considered rude to begin a meeting before a scheduled time, unless everyone who was supposed to be there is there and agrees that they’d like to start early
No, I work in Germany.
huh! it’s spreading. i’d personally think it’d be rude to start before the scheduled time without everyone present
I have all that turned off. A new chat pertaining to the meeting is added to the list of chats, but I don’t see that unless I’m looking at the Teams window.
You might have it turned off, but do the other participants?
No idea, but they have the option, just like me.
Man, just do it like the rest of us and join on time. Then realize you forgot to do sth/take a break/whatever and just claim the 5 minute troubleshoot time claiming your mic doesn’t work, while you go to the toilet.
Yeah, they would wait for me in most meetings. In 75% of the meetings I participate in, I’m a key person and have to provide meaningful information, some of it based on the discussion in the meetings. If I had “mic issues” in them, they’d want me to start showing up early to address them before the meeting. And thus we’re back to square one.
Back to back meetings has entered the chat
If you’ve already made sure the mic and camera are working, you don’t need to enter the 2nd meeting 5 minutes early to make sure they work.
Always in exactly 2 minutes early. 5 minutes early always forces me to have awkward small talk with someone, usually the organizer.
2 minutes is great. 30 seconds to get in, 1 minute for mic/sound check, 30 seconds left not long enough to have more small talk than hellos.
You may indeed be the only one.
Five is already pretty late for me. I’m in the meeting 10 prior so my status changes. Camera is off, I’m preparing for the meeting, but it’s good to be ahead of the game.
What do you do when you have consecutive meetings?
2 cameras, face to face. And you go to the movies.
If the first one matters more than the second, I’ll leave when the first one is done. If the second one is more important, I’ll say “I need to prepare for another meeting. If there’s any other business, email is best.” and leave to be in my next meeting.
I show up a couple minutes late because this should have been an email.
I work in government, and some dumbass in the city sends one of these things instead of attending meetings, and gets pissy when I kick it out of the room.
Those emails it sends are open-records discoverable.
The communist presidential candidate in my country has a live interview in one hour. Just in time for the metrics work meeting that could have been an email.
This will be fun.
Why virtual note takers? Why waste computing power?
It is very handy
Handy, yes. But anything more than a single note taking AI is literally redundant. Why not single note taking agent?
LET THEM FIGHT.
Those note takes don’t actually take into account anything said before the meeting begins.
