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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 29athrowaway »

deburo wrote: post #83
29athrowaway wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 interacti…

I guess when we get to have AGI agents, they will start replacing HR, even though I doubt this will sit well with anyone. Again, it’s dystopian. Maybe in a Demolition Man world. But today? Wew

Some stuff can be classified as toxic and universally unacceptable with high confidence. That is the low hanging fruit we can begin with.

A reputation system with user submitted information can also help.

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

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Post by brookst »

jakear wrote: post #40
narrator wrote: post #20

Could someone please compete with GPT-3? This is getting ridiculous how far ahead OpenAi is getting, despite Google probably having better tech. It seems nobody else has the big brass balls of the OpenAI guys to put a large language model out there and deal with the consequences. Yann LeCun is on Twitter saying this isn't a big deal[1], but where's Facebook's LLM that's available to the public? [1] https://twitter.co…

> despite Google probably having better tech What makes you so sure? Microsoft already has a fully productized LLM that people pay for and has in turn provided real value to both users and the company (copilot). To assert that some other company has a better one but it's... not ready yet? is odd. I can't think of the last time Google made a new product. New as in "not a reimplementation of what another company alread…

You hit the nail on the head. Google’s problem is business model, not technology. They need you to not know things so their advertisers can pay to inform you. A high quality LLM is exactly the opposite of what works for Google and their advertisers.

I think Google has three choices: 1) reorient their business model to be about making money by providing direct value to the user, 2) pivot to be about ad-supported entertainment rather than productivity/information, or 3) cut costs, run as a cash cow, throw off as much profit as possible before obselesence.

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

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Post by Joeri »

Gigachad wrote: post #70
blacksmith_tb wrote: post #52

Earlier 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.

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 of broken or kind of hard to use, or both.

But I have no doubt they’re eating slack’s lunch, for the same reason my employer switched from slack to teams: convenient licensing, bundling and deployment.

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

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Post by up2isomorphism »

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]…

I don’t think it can be really improved as long as Microsoft can sell this slow unstable piece of crap into all the big corporate by shameless bribing.

I used to work in a big corporate, suddenly all teams has to change to MS team even the current software works just fine. I just decided to quit.

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

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Post by solarkraft »

aetherspawn wrote: post #85

I wish they would push the calling aspect of Microsoft Teams more. The technology is great: 1. Receive business calls from anywhere and any handset or computer. Seamlessly transfer and pick up the call on any device. Can be linked to inbound 1800, 1300 numbers, landline numbers, etc. 2. Can do call forwarding, ring-out forwarding, and voice messages 3. Voice messages are recorded, transcripted and the audio file and…

Calls are the one thing Teams does well (and it does them really well), IMO. Everything else is quirky, but calls just work.

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

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Post by denysvitali »

up2isomorphism wrote: post #94
denysvitali wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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]…

I don’t think it can be really improved as long as Microsoft can sell this slow unstable piece of crap into all the big corporate by shameless bribing. I used to work in a big corporate, suddenly all teams has to change to MS team even the current software works just fine. I just decided to quit.

That's why this uses the same client ID as Microsoft Teams and connects to the same backends.

Don't get me wrong, the Teams servers aren't the fastest out there - but processing a 50 MB JSON with Javascript (well, Angular) is probably not needed at all if your goal is just to see a chat message. We do that heavy lifting on the server side (that anyways runs locally on your PC), so that the client can get the messages without all of the mess.

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

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Post by airtonix »

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]…

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

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Post by hooby »

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

- Microsoft Office Live Meeting

etc.

Why would you expect Teams to fare differently?

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