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A Room Where Executives Go to Get Help from IBM’s Watson

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Re: A Room Where Executives Go to Get Help from IBM’s Watson

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Post by piptastic »

Just having software that can record and transcribe only relevant conversations, record action items, and email summaries would vastly improve the state of the meetings I attend.

Nothing worse than wasting 3 hours in a meeting and coming out where participants remember things incorrectly and go off in different directions.

Re: A Room Where Executives Go to Get Help from IBM’s Watson

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Post by orf »

> IBM’s researchers are also considering other ways the technology at work in their current demo might help out in a workplace—for example, by having software log the relative contributions of different people to a discussion

I find that incredibly creepy and hope to god that never is developed.

Re: A Room Where Executives Go to Get Help from IBM’s Watson

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Post by nezza-_- »

orf wrote: post #5

> IBM’s researchers are also considering other ways the technology at work in their current demo might help out in a workplace—for example, by having software log the relative contributions of different people to a discussion I find that incredibly creepy and hope to god that never is developed.

If it records the -actual- contribution and not the number of words spoken I'd be all for it. I'd also want it to measure the amount of hot air people talk.

Re: A Room Where Executives Go to Get Help from IBM’s Watson

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Post by cyorir »

piptastic wrote: post #4

Just having software that can record and transcribe only relevant conversations, record action items, and email summaries would vastly improve the state of the meetings I attend. Nothing worse than wasting 3 hours in a meeting and coming out where participants remember things incorrectly and go off in different directions.

Right, at the company I currently intern at this is all done manually by the software librarian. It seems like there is a lot of room for automation in meetings; bonus points if such a system could tie into the issue tracker/SCM (whatever that may be, we use Accurev). Although Watson sounds like it would be helpful in cutting down on the number of pointless arguments in meetings where not everyone is on the same page.
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