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iamleppert10/01/20243 repliesview on HN

I would pay cold hard cash if I could easily create an AI avatar of myself that could attend teams meetings and do basic interaction, like give a status update when called on.


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zoeysmithe10/01/2024

Okay so this is impossible because you'll get caught because tech will never fool everyone like this all the time.

But lets talk about the sentiment behind here. Am I the only one seeing some terrible things being done with AI in terms of time management, meetings, and written materials? Asking AI to "turn this nice concise 3 paragraphs into a 6 page report" is a huge problem. Everyone thinks they're an amazing technical writer now, but most good writing is concise and short and these AI monstrosities are just a waste of everyone's time.

Reform work culture instead! Why do we have cameras on our faces? Why are we making these reports? Why so many meetings? "Meeting culture" is the problem and it needs to go, but it upholds middle-management jobs and structures, so here we are asking for robots of us to sit in meetings with management to get just the 8 bullet points we need from that 1 hour meeting.

We've entered a new level of kafkaesque capitalism where a manager puts 8 bullets points into an AI, gets a professional 4 page report, then turns that into a meeting for staff to take that report and meeting transcript to...you guessed it, turn it back into those 8 bullet points.

ndarray10/01/2024

This would require the AI to alert you as soon as your colleagues are starting to figure out that they're talking to an AI and start interrogating it, so that you can jump in with your real mic and save the situation. Preferably the AI would repeat whatever you speak into your mic, otherwise there would be noticeable audio changes. Hope they never ask you to sing.

pantulis10/01/2024

Last time I checked it was not possible through Teams API call for video conferences, although it is pretty easy to set up a chat bot in Teams with a custom Copilot. I'd say that it looked more feasible through a plugin for Google Meet but there are too many hoops. I'd expect that to be reserved either for the host platforms or for selected partners.

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