Zoom's New AI Features Help You Catch Up On Meetings You're Late To 34
Zoom is partnering with OpenAI to bring AI-generated summaries, message drafts, and more to the video conferencing app through its Zoom IQ AI-powered assistant. The Verge reports: While Zoom IQ can already do things like create chapters and highlights for recorded meetings, Zoom's giving the assistant even more features, including a way to catch up on meetings that you may have been late to. That means you'll be able to ask the tool to summarize what you've missed as well as "ask further questions."
Additionally, Zoom IQ can do several other things, like generate whiteboards based on text prompts and provide recaps of meetings as well as summarize threads in Zoom Team Chat. Similar to the ChatGPT bot coming to Slack, Zoom IQ also lets you generate responses to your colleagues using AI. The company says it's planning to roll out AI-powered message and email drafts on an invitation-only basis in April but will introduce "select" Zoom IQ meeting summary features "more broadly."
Additionally, Zoom IQ can do several other things, like generate whiteboards based on text prompts and provide recaps of meetings as well as summarize threads in Zoom Team Chat. Similar to the ChatGPT bot coming to Slack, Zoom IQ also lets you generate responses to your colleagues using AI. The company says it's planning to roll out AI-powered message and email drafts on an invitation-only basis in April but will introduce "select" Zoom IQ meeting summary features "more broadly."
Wake me up (Score:5, Funny)
...if it can fake my presence completely.
On second thought, DON'T wake me up if it works.
Re:Wake me up (Score:4, Funny)
...if it can fake my presence completely.
On second thought, DON'T wake me up if it works.
Yeah, but does it remember NOT to wear any pants?
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Yes not only that, the AI will stand up and then quickly sit down and apologize. It is that good.
Do not be surprised if some ladies DM you on the side.
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Or in my case have the cat crash the meeting and then expertly leap onto the keyboard in just the right way to drop me out of the meeting and lose whatever work I was pecking away at in the background.
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...if it can fake my presence completely.
On second thought, DON'T wake me up if it works.
Yeah, but does it remember NOT to wear any pants?
You act like the other ZoomBots on the call are going to care.
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It woke up Jeffrey Toobin of CNN at exactly the wrong time.
Poor guy has had the living experience of coming (his goodie bag) and going (his career & reputation) at the same time.
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Or just be awake for the 10 seconds you are actually needed [youtube.com] for. Although it could be worse. [youtube.com] =P
If your using AI to do your job, Don't Worry! (Score:2)
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It might even correct typos for us
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If my job consists of sitting in meetings and hearing narcissists who love to hear themselves talk drone on for hours, please don't fire me, just shoot me and put me out of my misery.
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You won't have a job much longer to worry about.
Honestly, for most meetings that "justify" some middle earth management trolls existence in which an email could have replaced the meeting, sending a bot to report is called being efficient. Let's most actual workers get back to the actual work.
"AI"? (Score:4, Funny)
To catch up, I just record video and play it back at a faster speed. I call this system "Accelerated Images", or "AI" for short. Pat. Pending.
So that's the scheme (Score:2)
Zoom keeps telling me I should grab the new (paid) version, to do everything I haven't wanted or needed to do since it was a free service.
Sigh, it's not long before it "improves" so much that what I use it for will be obsolete, and the free version will go away. Considering what I use it for, being without it would be worth more than having "all new features!!!!" sitting unused. Each forced update works to hide what I use.
It (so far) just works well enough that it continues to be installed and used, but it'
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They're busy cramming in AI, but they can't make an update take you to the meeting you just clicked on.
Yep, every bloomin' time the app wants to update just as you're due into a meeting (which invariably you're not 2 minutes early for), and then it just sits there saying "look at me! I just updated myself!" instead of putting you into the meeting - you know, the thing Zoom exists to do. As another insult, the web page that opened from the calendar invite loads a new page after you click the "join" button, s
ChatGPT integration when? (Score:2)
The dull chore of meetings begs for automation as cotton picking did before it. This has immense potential to avert human suffering.
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The goal of the meeting is to show who is the important one that can talk and that they're so important that all must attend.
If the AI can summarise, then it makes financial sense to not attend and pick more cotton, this isn't allowed due to point above.
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If you need a meeting to feel important, you aren't.
This will be a great help (Score:2)
for people that always run late. Now they can be even later, guilt free. Wonderful.
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I have solved that problem a long time ago, I simply don't go to meetings and have someone summarize it for me later. Saves a lot of time and you find out pretty soon that a surprising amount of meetings is absolutely pointless.
Is this all handled locally? (Score:2)
Does any of this interaction round-trip away from my own computer? Because Zoom supposedly has end-to-end encryption now, but they've claimed that before when it wasn't the case...
Re: Is this all handled locally? (Score:2)
Don't worry. They're totally not getting transcripts of the summaries in Beijing, Tehran, Moscow, or Pyongyang. Pinky swear your competitors won't get a copy either.
Re: Is this all handled locally? (Score:1)
I was late to the meeting... (Score:2)
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brighten it up by adding your own BS
Robot: take this meeting for me! (Score:2)
Now assume my social obligations!
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If you consider meetings "social", I don't want to be in the same room as you.
Thinking about it, I'd prefer to not be on the same planet as you.
This is great news! (Score:2)
Re: This is great news! (Score:3)
You mean you've cracked the secret of how to make "hovercraft" exclusively singular by inventing a new and exciting plural form?
Wows. I stands in aweses.
Clever, but not an advance (Score:2)
Automatic captioning is commonplace today, AFAIK, all major video conferencing systems do it. And automatic summarization of a text transcript is also commonly available. Put them together, and you get an automatic summary. It'll be imperfect, of course, but it'll usually provide the gist.
Great news (Score:2)
Now you can be told when your colleagues are badmouthing you at a meeting you're late to.
A summary? nice! (Score:2)
So this means I can login to a zoom meeting, with video and sound off, and just go for a beer?
When I get back, I'll have a summary and will have missed nothing.
That's one helluva good feature, probably the best yet.
Zoom's tech not there yet... (Score:2)
Have any of you actually read the auto-generated captions Zoom provides? If you're looking for a good laugh... check it.
That tech needs to be WAY better before I'm going to use it for anything more interesting than a text scroller. (Better tech definitely exists.. they're just not using it apparently!)