..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.
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.
at my last client's they used SAFe, which basically means they do "big agile". in practice, this meant that every tenth week was "meeting week". five days of only retrospectives and planning meetings, including a friday all-hands with over 400 engineers at once. i wish we had virtual note takers that worked.
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.
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.
"You've won $10,000! -- Horny women in your area! -- Real Casino Viagra Casino Bitcoin Casino Viagra! -- There's a package awaiting your confirmation!"
Something like my dick is so hard right now that I can barely steer the car right?
Gift cards as well
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.
especially with your name attached.
maybe start with "hey, i'm Michail Bakunin, filling in for chris, and i'm here today to talk about syndicalism"
🤣🤌🏼 See? It's just this sort of shit that kept me from locking in on the cubicle monkey grind — not for lack of trying, but for how I contributed. 😜
Example: once upon a time, there was a merger of two massive telecom brands (let's call them "Orange" and "Blue") and one was being subsumed entirely over the course of a year or so — including its complete customer database. Now, most of these accounts were simple enough to update & port, but someone up top decided to draw a line at a certain value and lump together alllll the accounts that were under that floor. Something about not wasting money on pros' hours for subprime, IIRC.
Long story short, it took me no time at all to write a script that did exactly what mgmt told us to do ( ~ "zero out all accounts within a certain range on either side of $0.00 via refund or extinguishment"), but since I was paid by the hour and mgmt got bonuses for how well their teams were doing, I made sure my little slop of code didn't outpace the other teams on the floor. I didn't take into account how absolutely mind-numbingly challenging it is to be in a cubicle for 8+ hrs/day with nothing at all to do...
Oh, and to further obfuscate my automation, I set it up on a few office mates' computers, too. Pretty soon, the whole team was secretly automated and straight up bored AF, so we kinda just took longer and longer lunches, more frequent smoke breaks, shared our music libraries, etc., but kept up the "barely above average, yet dedicated wage slaves" act in front of mgmt.
Imagine my face when it was not accolades we received once the jig was up. 🤣🖕🏼 Ooohwhee, were they pissed.
Nobody would bet an eye you would do this in Europe.
using an ai for inside meeting is totally safe and secure, and totally not a gdpr nightmare
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.
I'm hyperpunctual too, but I stopped doing this when Teams started pinging all invitees as soon as the first person shows up, because now showing up 5 minutes early just means the meeting is 5 minutes longer.
I go for not being the guy to start the meeting, but being prepared to join the second someone does.
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.
I almost always see the message "x has started the meeting. Join?" About 5 to 10 minutes before a meeting where x is any of many people, so you're not unusual
I join exactly on time, though I get to the audio/video check a few minutes early to ensure my camera is live and the audio has chosen my headset not the camera microphone
You may indeed be the only one.
I show up a couple minutes late because this should have been an email.
True. Some folk don’t work. They send appointments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Those note takes don’t actually take into account anything said before the meeting begins.
