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Re: Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries

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Post by mason55 »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #14

Huh. So I've never taken meeting notes. I guess you write down some things people said. Do you then refer back to that later, or is it a memory aid thing? I don't feel like I'm missing anything, but equally the op has built a product to automate this, so it's got to be important in some contexts. Would like to know what I'm missing

IMO the two important parts of meeting notes are

1. Decisions and supporting details

2. Action items with dates and assignees

Those should be sent out to all attendees of the meeting (or written in a place that's accessible to everyone). Beyond that, each person needs to take notes for themselves for other things they want to remember.

Re: Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries

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Post by vidarh »

djha-skin wrote: post #4

AI will never replace jobs that require real human care or intent. We don't want an AI taking care of us when we're sick, though they'd probably be very good at it. Business notes may be a nice case, but notes taken by someone who cares about the project is going to be better than the AI's, even if the AI does a better job, because the care o the person taking the notes is evident.

Eah statement in this boils down to a variation over an appeal to nature [1], in that each argument here is basically that an AI can't do a good job because it's not human / natural. While an AI might well not do a good job now, you've provided no meaningful argument for why it can't match - or surpass - people.

An actual argument might be that it can't fully replace my own notes because my own notes can, and sometimes do, include notes about my thoughts and opinions that the AI can't possibly know without being told. But that does not negate the possible value in terms of freeing me from taking notes about what was actually said during the meeting.

With respect to being taken care of: I want to be taken care of in whichever way produces the best outcome for me. If that means care handled by an AI, then I want the AI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

Re: Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries

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Post by thenerdhead »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #14

Huh. So I've never taken meeting notes. I guess you write down some things people said. Do you then refer back to that later, or is it a memory aid thing? I don't feel like I'm missing anything, but equally the op has built a product to automate this, so it's got to be important in some contexts. Would like to know what I'm missing

Most managers do all their work through meeting summaries/notes. It is usually a symptom to a larger problem given that if people just showed up to meetings that mattered to them, they would be driven to do the things needed to get done from said meeting.

Re: Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries

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Post by neaden »

infogulch wrote: post #9

Sometimes a thing is valuable because you want to have it. But sometimes most of the value is in the act of creating it .

Yeah, the act of physically writing (as in not typing) words on paper helps me to remember things better and distill the important parts in my head. Just reading someone else's notes is not as useful for me.

Re: Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries

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Post by tekla »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #14

Huh. So I've never taken meeting notes. I guess you write down some things people said. Do you then refer back to that later, or is it a memory aid thing? I don't feel like I'm missing anything, but equally the op has built a product to automate this, so it's got to be important in some contexts. Would like to know what I'm missing

I dont know how it would be possible to build anything reasonably complex with groups of people without taking meeting notes.

Every single meeting would be everyone hallucinating what was said before in previous meetings, and lots of lying.

Re: Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries

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Post by markrages »

infogulch wrote: post #9

Sometimes a thing is valuable because you want to have it. But sometimes most of the value is in the act of creating it .

If I don't take notes I instantly tune out of the meeting.

I just type into org-mode. The notes are rarely useful later, but I keep them in a folder that I can grep through.

Re: Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries

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Post by thinking4real »

muhehe wrote: post #29

So... you record you internal meeting, with possibly sensitive company information and upload it to some cloud. What could possibly go wrong?

It definitely won’t make telling jokes as risky as the jester taunting the king

Imagine, at the rate of wokeness, any joke or non factual piece of information you present is now searchable via text or even related terms.

Now imagine your boss or HR person doesn’t really like you and needs an excuse to get you in trouble. They’re few queries away from finding something that from some angle can make you look like a monster.

Better just to say as little as possible.

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