As big a fan as I am of GPT3, the idea of it as a shiny new toy for the meeting-class to ensure those of us who attend grudgingly because we like to - you know - get things done are now going to have the joys of Clippy-as-Hall-Monitor helpfully guiding us through every minute of the meeting we managed to dip out on is not appealing.
Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
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Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
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Very dystopian. It works well as farce, if it were one.
Human intelligence is tainted with lower forms of intelligence from less evolved animals. The brain is structurally a monolith where structures responsible for advanced cognitive brain functions are built on top of older brain structures from millions of years prior. Primitive animals are less social, less collaborative and cannot collaborate in large groups. There are vestigial behaviors from them that arise once in…
You’re proposing that an imperfect AI flags (ok) or fires (wow) employees based on potentially bad input.
Same thing on muting mic or doing any kind of auto moderation.
That’s going very far on an imperfect technology. I’d sooner bet on autonomous driving than people using such a moderator.
Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
#73The real premium version of Microsoft Teams will be the one that doesn't crash my Google Chrome window every 30-45 minutes.
The real premium version of teams would actually show people on the other end of the call what my side says I'm sharing.
Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
#74Is this officially Microsoft’s second GTP powered product after Copilot?
I would believe so.
There is some ML functionality built into Visual Studio now a days (intellisense + some auto complete). But I don't think they market it as a separate product.
Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can buy flight tickets from Google, that is a relatively new product even if you buy them from the search result. So Google search is good at adding new products that are context sensitive to your query, I don't see why they couldn't make such things with a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers.
> a chat bot answering question queries instead of just trying to link to sites with answers And kill their golden goose? Google makes more money the longer you spend on their ad-ridden search result pages. I don't doubt they'll make a question answering bot, but the real question is how they fund it (see edit above for my guess).
Maybe while you ask questions to ChatLaMDA, it could also show a sidebar of relevant web pages mixed with AdWords results related to your questions.
Although clicking on them might not be quite as natural as clicking as part of search results, so still massive damage to the golden goose.
Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
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This is a joke, right?
No, it's not. Some people truly need it. The status quo is a joke. The threshold for considering behavior toxic is too high. Now we have the technology to end the bullshit. If you are interrupting, ignoring others, bluffing, lying, manipulating, gaslighting, being a sycophant, playing dirty... you are no longer playing the game. There are ways of achieving things that do not involve cheating. If you disagree, then I…
I don't need some half-baked language model to stand up for myself. Thanks, though.
Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
#78Yup, this is it, this is the real life version of the beginning of the Manna story. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Amazing this book is from 2003 - very prescient.
> Version 4.0 of Manna was also the first version to enforce average task times, and that was even worse. Manna would ask you to clean the restrooms. But now Manna had industry-average times for restroom cleaning stored in the software, as well as “target times”. If it took you too long to mop the floor or clean the sinks, Manna would say to you, “lagging”. When you said, “OK” to mark task completion for Manna, Manna would say, “Your time was 4 minutes 10 seconds. Industry average time is 3 minutes 30 seconds. Please focus on each task.” Anyone who lagged consistently was fired.
Feels like Amazon took some inspiration from that.
Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Human intelligence is tainted with lower forms of intelligence from less evolved animals. The brain is structurally a monolith where structures responsible for advanced cognitive brain functions are built on top of older brain structures from millions of years prior. Primitive animals are less social, less collaborative and cannot collaborate in large groups. There are vestigial behaviors from them that arise once in…
You’re proposing that an imperfect AI flags (ok) or fires (wow) employees based on potentially bad input. Same thing on muting mic or doing any kind of auto moderation. That’s going very far on an imperfect technology. I’d sooner bet on autonomous driving than people using such a moderator.
No, it's not.
We already employ profanity filters in multiplayer games. We also have rating systems in games that allow peers to flag toxic behavior after a game session for review. These have helped limiting the harm caused by toxic players.
Those are simple low tech solutions that could be added to videoconferencing applications.
Did someone act toxic during a meeting? Allow participants to report a toxic interaction, with an AI generated transcript + recording.
Then you can go one step further and build the future of HR playbook enforcement:
"Meeting participant #1234, you are engaging in toxic behavior and are in direct violation of the HR playbook page 113 section 9: please stop disrupting the meeting and shut the hell up to avoid disciplinary action. You have 10 seconds to comply. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...". /s
But jokes aside... Today we have great sentiment analysis capabilities. There is a subset of the English language you should never use at work. We can also detect if someone is yelling. We can flag highly offensive terms. There are ways in which we can apply technology in a sensible way to improve the work experience, to limit the harm caused by the worst types of behaviors including but not limited to violence.
We can also use technology to hold HR accountable to enforce the HR playbook.
Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
To anyone fortunate to not have to use Teams, this is no joke - it's mind-bogglingly terrible. But I have noticed some unintentional humor, if I send a message like "ok, this isn't working, why don't I Slack you a Zoom link instead?" I get an immediate modal popping up, asking if I would answer two quick questions...
It’s quite literally a daily event where someone in a call will say “sorry, my teams is bugged out, I can’t see you” or some other bug of the day. A coworker keeps a log of every teams bug he sees which is enormous. It’s not even weird edge cases. The core features like calls just flat out don’t work in random ways.
Forget calls.
There's been a recent update that managed to break the chat screen even more than before (when it was "only" slow).
Roughly half the time I start teams, the chat window will be empty. It's just gray. It doesn't look like it's loading with empty bubbles or similar, it just sits there doing nothing and being completely empty.
I can change contacts, the heading updates, but there just are no messages showing up. I can change tabs, like going to activity, calendar, or teams (where messages do show up), when I get back to the chats, no contents.
Of course, this being Microsoft, a restart seems to fix it right up.