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Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Post by niek_pas »

behnamoh wrote: post #14

I'm an introvert and often shy away from talking to strangers. But interestingly, I've always been pretty good at public presentations. I've received multiple compliments after my presentations. I'm often really confident when presenting my slides. Part of it is because I spend so much time creating content (slides) and in the process, I come up with creative ways to explain different things. I also tend to walk a bi…

You sound like me, 5 years ago, at age 21. I only realized I am actually an extroverted person a few months ago.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Post by 6stringmerc »

niek_pas wrote: post #21
behnamoh wrote: post #14

I'm an introvert and often shy away from talking to strangers. But interestingly, I've always been pretty good at public presentations. I've received multiple compliments after my presentations. I'm often really confident when presenting my slides. Part of it is because I spend so much time creating content (slides) and in the process, I come up with creative ways to explain different things. I also tend to walk a bi…

You sound like me, 5 years ago, at age 21. I only realized I am actually an extroverted person a few months ago.

You can be both! I score as both INTJ and ENTJ depending on the day and my mood.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Post by nonrandomstring »

This seems the epitome of "AI applications" that ride on human weakness, insecurity and disconnection. It's an application for people who have no friends. Any other sincere and observant human being can help you be a better communicator if you feel comfortable asking them to criticise your performance.

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Post by raffraffraff »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #24

This seems the epitome of "AI applications" that ride on human weakness, insecurity and disconnection. It's an application for people who have no friends. Any other sincere and observant human being can help you be a better communicator if you feel comfortable asking them to criticise your performance.

The title wasn't clear, so I thought it was a tool for learning / improving in a new language (you know, pronunciation, accent etc). I wonder would it be useful in that regard? Because for me, conversational Spanish or French would be difficult because I don't interact with native speakers.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Post by mkmk3 »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #24

This seems the epitome of "AI applications" that ride on human weakness, insecurity and disconnection. It's an application for people who have no friends. Any other sincere and observant human being can help you be a better communicator if you feel comfortable asking them to criticise your performance.

Is this a value judgement or you're just saying? "This app rides on human weakness" sounds like negative framing at least. Because yes, if you had good observant friends, it reduces the need for this for sure. But the human weakness, insecurity and disconnection is already there, and some people have no friends and have trouble communicating well. I think it's good to be skeptical of instances of this kind of work in terms of the details like how it respects the users privacy and treats their data sensitively, and whether or not it's selling an effective method, but at least it's sort of aimed towards good.

Also ad tech is the epitome of AI applications that ride on human weakness ;)

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Post by seydor »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #24

This seems the epitome of "AI applications" that ride on human weakness, insecurity and disconnection. It's an application for people who have no friends. Any other sincere and observant human being can help you be a better communicator if you feel comfortable asking them to criticise your performance.

i m not sure that telling unconfident people that they re weak and have no friends helps

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Post by warent »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #24

This seems the epitome of "AI applications" that ride on human weakness, insecurity and disconnection. It's an application for people who have no friends. Any other sincere and observant human being can help you be a better communicator if you feel comfortable asking them to criticise your performance.

Uh, no. It's a coach to train oneself.

Your friends don't want to spend fulltime analyzing all your presentations, providing you with trends over time and actionable feedback.

Or are you paying your friends to do this work?

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Post by edf13 »

showmypost wrote: post #18

This looks really exciting but I want to warn that this fulfills the following criteria: - feels to good to be free - it targets a problem that we all sense and fear when we interact with other people - the privacy and security policy is legally invalid in California and the EU (missing both is quite weird as they’re very well known privacy standards) - the email address listed inside the privacy and security policy…

it’s not slack listed as a company but rather “professionals from”…

> Trusted by professionals from

This is a growing trend I’ve noticed - it’s a bit of a fake call to legitimacy

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