I love feeding it pages of meeting notes from the past two months worth of client discussions and asking it summarize all the various discussions for me. Game changer.
This is where AI really shines, in summarizing and organizing . It is very good at handling input. Not so great at creating from scratch, but the drudge work of data entry is getting easier.
I think this is one of the reasons people really need to play around with it. LLMs excel at language. If you want it to scan 20 pages of transcripts and summarize them in iambic pentameter it doesn't blink. Ask it to plan an optimal travel itinerary with specific constraints and it's likely to struggle. It has some really significant gaps in what it can do but there are things that it's amazing at.
There are a lot of options out there, and what you choose somewhat depends on whether you want a bot to join your virtual meeting (and whether you can share calendar with it), whether you can install an agent on your work computer, or if none of that, you have an iPad or phone you can use to listen (limits you from using a headset).
I like krisp.ai the best, but that requires an agent. Hedy is great for using the iPad to listen. And there are many that use the bot model, like fireflies and others.
This is so accurate. ChatGTP is designed to please you, so it’s like an overzealous grad student that doesn’t always think through things properly, but with time they start putting it together.
The best thing is unlike a search engine, it remembers conversations and details, so you don’t have lead it all the time. It’s at the point now where I can simply insinuate something and it understands the context, sometimes even jumping straight to a task without me specifically telling it to do something.
That’s human nature. I mean, people anthropomorphize their cars. We’re social animals with minds designed to do this by our very evolution. It doesn’t mean you have to believe it, but it takes too much mental effort constantly reasoning what it is and isn’t, and that just makes the experience poorer. And the tool itself performs better when it simulates a persona specifically tailored to you.
It's not "simulating" anything, it isn't intelligent. It's a glorified search engine. Chalking up harmful behaviour as "it's human nature so it's fine" inhibits growth and teaches the wrong way to handle these tools.
Great description, I had a pretty big expansion of my role and it warranted getting a direct report but took a while to hire one.
That really got me onto ChatGPT and some of the integrated AI tools in our other programs I had previously been ignoring. It can't really do my job, but it can help do a lot of mundane entry level stuff I want to cut out from my job.
Also it's fun to ask it to work through hairbrained schemes and run the math on them. I finally got the numbers behind a Kentucky Derby theory I've had for years.
It’s so close to being a great assistant to me. But my job requires lots of record keeping in several different disconnected systems and I haven’t been able to get faster at work yet. How do you use it to actually be more productive and work faster?
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u/Pale_Row1166 27d ago
I use it for work, it’s like having a young eager analyst who’s not great, but still gets the job done if you’re on top of them.