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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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Post by davidhyde »

> “Delight customers right from their mobile device with a seamless experience that includes a virtual, branded lobby and easy pre-appointment chatting capabilities.”

This refers to the meeting join link and the last time someone sent me a link like this it was not a delightful experience. I ended up mixing up organisations and accounts.

An example of a good experience is joining a Jitsi Meet meeting because you don’t have to sign up or do anything to join (my comment is on the join experience only). It remains standalone and does not try to link you to anything. There is no time to mess around when joining a meeting.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by chii »

naruhodo wrote: post #78
jph00 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

ai and neural networks aren't needed for this sort of work metric monitoring. You'd have found this in factories decades ago.

The situation that is described in Manna is merely something that would occur under complete free market capitalism, and assumes that people would not change or adapt to meet the challenges of automation.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by timetraveller26 »

Game_Ender wrote: post #30
throwoutway wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope it does not. I don't want to see these features. Microsoft Teams barely runs, nd barely lets me join a meeting

Almost all of these look like backend features that feed AI summarized or generated data. So they probably won’t hurt client performance.

right?

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by deng »

Personally, I'm very much looking forward to absolutely hilarious meeting notes. I work at a company with local branches in France and GB, and with lots and lots of expats from all over the world, so many people have pretty strong accents. Whenever I'm bored in a meeting, I turn on transcription and usually get a good chuckle out of it. I can't wait to see what ChatGPT will generate with this.

Also, I'm really wondering: How will ChatGPT deal with the typical banter that often happens in meetings? Will I get meeting notes about whether Messi or Ronaldo is the greater player? What about gossip that a human would never put in a meeting note? Will the department X be happy to read that they never get things done in time because person Y usually has a hangover on Mondays? The future will be exciting!

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by azalemeth »

denysvitali wrote: post #84
jbm wrote: post #19

The real premium version of Microsoft Teams will be the one that doesn't crash my Google Chrome window every 30-45 minutes.

That's why we're building FossTeams [1], an open source client for Microsoft Teams (: The idea is to have a backend [2], powered by a library [3] that does the heavy lifting and a / multiple frontends to be used with that (e.g: CLI[4], Web frontend[5], Flutter app[6]). We're looking for contributors! If you hate Teams and want to improve an Open Source version, PRs are welcome (: [1]: https://github.com/fossteams [2]…

You're brilliant martyrs, but it's such a shame that Teams is just universally accepted as a new enterprise thing. I've never really seen such an anticompetitive move by Microsoft in the last decade, but Teams has taken on both Slack and Zoom and friends and they shove it "for free" down their enterprise customers' throats. It's crying out for a competition authority investigation and a compulsory breaking up -- not just a FOSS client.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by Sakos »

lampe3 wrote: post #106

The premium version of Teams would be one with: - Better UX. When working with Slack/Discord or any other of these apps. Going back to Teams is painful. - That does not drain my Iphones battery as much as watching 4 hours on youtube.

Also one that doesn't randomly crash for half the team when trying to join a meeting.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by Sakos »

hooby wrote: post #100
solarkraft wrote: post #96

Will this "premium" version include fixes for all the obvious and terrible bugs people keep complaining about? They're barely acceptable for a free product. If they can spend billions on AI maybe they can assign like ONE person to caring about Teams??

Look at the history of past Microsoft chat products... and then name one they didn't run slowly into the ground and then replace with something else! - MSN Messenger - Windows Live Messenger - Microsoft Office Communications - Microsoft V-Chat - Microsoft Lync - Skype - Skype for Business (nothing to do with Skype - completely different software) - Microsoft Classroom - Windows Meeting Space - Microsoft NetMeeting -…

MSN Messenger was great and significantly better than the abomination that is Teams. Was Teams ever good?

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by Sakos »

Joeri wrote: post #93
Gigachad wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, but if the teams developers had been fixing those bugs, they wouldn’t have been able to build this AI-powered teams premium. /s As a daily user of teams it’s pretty obvious that the way teams is built is not informed by UX experts or user feedback, and mostly is focused on checking off as many boxes as possible to sell the product to C-level. It has a bewildering set of features, and they’re usually either kind…

Maybe they're going to rewrite Teams with code written by GPT? It would probably be a massive improvement over what they have now.

Re: Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5

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Post by ickoonite »

Joeri wrote: post #93
Gigachad wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, but if the teams developers had been fixing those bugs, they wouldn’t have been able to build this AI-powered teams premium. /s As a daily user of teams it’s pretty obvious that the way teams is built is not informed by UX experts or user feedback, and mostly is focused on checking off as many boxes as possible to sell the product to C-level. It has a bewildering set of features, and they’re usually either kind…

Deployment in particular, in my (limited) experience. We had to deploy Slack and I was amazed that there was no way of configuring it via Group Policy or such. It had to be done manually on each machine. Madness.

Then Microsoft foisted Teams on us and we had to waste time finding ways to disable it.

In the end, I’m not sure which I hate more. Slack is also a dog-slow JavaScript app, so at least in that sense, they are one as bad as the other.

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