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

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Post by alxlaz »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #129
alxlaz wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have zero shame about it so I might as well confess: I have no bloody idea how to use Teams with more than one organisation. I just set up a VM for each one. I am smart enough to automate a minimal install (the bar for that is pretty low, if we're being honest) but apparently not smart enough to use Teams. It's beyond hilarious, two out of three times I end up in the wrong lobby with the wrong people and the wrong…

> Unless you're using it on your domain-enrolled work computer (which, to be fair, is probably the demographics Microsoft cares about) Teams is basically chatroulette. What do you mean? I sometimes use Teams on an AD-joined computer, and the multiple-account situation is beyond absurd. The whole freaking app has to restart when changing accounts, even though both are connected through the same exact AzureAD identity.…

> What do you mean? I sometimes use Teams on an AD-joined computer, and the multiple-account situation is beyond absurd.

Ah, no, I mean, if you're using it for your corporate account on your AD-joined computer. These things usually have a single (work) account.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was never meant to be multiple-account, and that was just half-added as an afterthought at some point.

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

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Post by PoignardAzur »

SilverBirch wrote: post #138

Bit disappointed at the level of discussion here, 90% of the comments are generic bitching about Teams. This press release really takes a while to get to the detail, but actually I think some this is great. The automated minutes are great feature, I know it's not going to be perfect but it'll pick up most of the heavy lifting which is kind of brilliant because it's always a PITA to be the notes taker. It doesn't even…

Yeah, there some good features in there. I've wanted automated summaries of meetings for a long time.

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

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Post by elforce002 »

lifty wrote: post #130
admg wrote: post #125

Can they just start by getting it to hold the setting for a default microphone/audio output?

That requires AGI so unfortunately we are not there yet. But the future holds promise.

Just putting it out there, ChatGPT is not even AI.

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

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Post by deng »

SilverBirch wrote: post #138

Bit disappointed at the level of discussion here, 90% of the comments are generic bitching about Teams. This press release really takes a while to get to the detail, but actually I think some this is great. The automated minutes are great feature, I know it's not going to be perfect but it'll pick up most of the heavy lifting which is kind of brilliant because it's always a PITA to be the notes taker. It doesn't even…

> Bit disappointed at the level of discussion here, 90% of the comments are generic bitching about Teams.

Because MS really needs to get their priorities straight. What good are AI meeting notes if the absolute basics of a VC/Chat software don't work properly? Just from the past few days, I've had

- Chat messages turning up hours later, or are not shown as new and I see them later by accident

- Images in chats are not loading

- In VC, I can't see people who have joined the meeting after me

- Status is stuck on "away" although I'm working with Teams

- Having to set up my audio/video setting for each new meeting again

Maybe fix these things first before working on AI meeting notes? But the fact is: many companies only use Teams because they have an Office365 subscription anyway and don't want to spend $$$ on an actually good VC/Chat solution. So yes, sorry, but it's really, really hard to get excited about AI meeting notes in Teams.

> It's quite exciting that we're getting some proper applications of the technology that make sense.

The technology already makes sense, in the form of ChatGPT. I use it every day.

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

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Post by nuodag »

alxlaz wrote: post #141
vladvasiliu wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Unless you're using it on your domain-enrolled work computer (which, to be fair, is probably the demographics Microsoft cares about) Teams is basically chatroulette. What do you mean? I sometimes use Teams on an AD-joined computer, and the multiple-account situation is beyond absurd. The whole freaking app has to restart when changing accounts, even though both are connected through the same exact AzureAD identity.…

> What do you mean? I sometimes use Teams on an AD-joined computer, and the multiple-account situation is beyond absurd. Ah, no, I mean, if you're using it for your corporate account on your AD-joined computer. These things usually have a single (work) account. I wouldn't be surprised if it was never meant to be multiple-account, and that was just half-added as an afterthought at some point.

And if you collaborate with someone from another company you have a guest account there, which is somewhat derived from your main one, but also independent

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

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Post by lelandfe »

SilverBirch wrote: post #138

Bit disappointed at the level of discussion here, 90% of the comments are generic bitching about Teams. This press release really takes a while to get to the detail, but actually I think some this is great. The automated minutes are great feature, I know it's not going to be perfect but it'll pick up most of the heavy lifting which is kind of brilliant because it's always a PITA to be the notes taker. It doesn't even…

I’m also thinking about the privacy side of things.

Video calls are used as a chance to talk candidly about management woes to colleagues. People talk much more freely on calls than they do in the messages of Slack or Teams.

Then auto-transcription hit, but I figured no one was going to read the thousands of lines of dialogue the org produces to mine for juicy tidbits.

Now, every meeting is automatically summarized by AI. I would not be surprised to see some 3rd party plug-in coming soon that flags to management when people express negative feelings, reveal secrets, or more on meetings.

Why have your your employees fill out some happiness Likert score when you can just do sentiment analysis on their voices? Passively determine who plans to leave, who leaked the report, and more.

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

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Post by vladvasiliu »

alxlaz wrote: post #141
vladvasiliu wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Unless you're using it on your domain-enrolled work computer (which, to be fair, is probably the demographics Microsoft cares about) Teams is basically chatroulette. What do you mean? I sometimes use Teams on an AD-joined computer, and the multiple-account situation is beyond absurd. The whole freaking app has to restart when changing accounts, even though both are connected through the same exact AzureAD identity.…

> What do you mean? I sometimes use Teams on an AD-joined computer, and the multiple-account situation is beyond absurd. Ah, no, I mean, if you're using it for your corporate account on your AD-joined computer. These things usually have a single (work) account. I wouldn't be surprised if it was never meant to be multiple-account, and that was just half-added as an afterthought at some point.

I guess I'm thinking of a somewhat hybrid situation.

I have my corporate account, me@corp.com, which is also configured on my domain-joined pc. This works well enough.

And with this same account, I connect to a separate tenant, where I'm a "guest". This separate tenant belongs to a partner corp, and they delegate the authentication to our tenant for people in our corp. So, I can almost use my credentials, meaning that I can use my regular login/password but have to have two MFAs (one for each tenant) for some reason.

But the "main" account seems aware of the other one because even on a fresh Windows install, just adding my me@corp account to teams adds the other one too. I just can't switch between the two without restarting teams, so I can only use one at a time.

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

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Post by alxlaz »

nuodag wrote: post #145
alxlaz wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What do you mean? I sometimes use Teams on an AD-joined computer, and the multiple-account situation is beyond absurd. Ah, no, I mean, if you're using it for your corporate account on your AD-joined computer. These things usually have a single (work) account. I wouldn't be surprised if it was never meant to be multiple-account, and that was just half-added as an afterthought at some point.

And if you collaborate with someone from another company you have a guest account there, which is somewhat derived from your main one, but also independent

Right? Not to be a Negative Nelly but IRC handles this just fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

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

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Post by csmpltn »

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]…

Honest question, asked in good faith. What's your plan when for when the "cease and desist" letter is going to come in?

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

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Post by infrawhispers »

I really wonder what’s happening at all the video/audio call intelligence startups that raised over the last few years [1][2][3]. I would pay to be a fly on the wall during their strategy meetings this morning.

I guess another footnote in the history books for Microsoft decimating a recently emerged biz niche.

[1] Airgram - https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/19/otter-ai-airgram-transcrib...

[2] OtterAI - https://venturebeat.com/business/otter-ai-raises-50-million-...

[3] Supernormal - https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/supernormal-raises-10m-to-...

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