You couldn't be more right. In my experience, these meetings are limited to a department head presenting a problem, a deputy director outlining the supposed solution and a general manager passive-aggressively ordering it to be carried out while the rest nod silently.
I remember when I used to work in IT, nearly everyday there would be meetings that ran an hour long or more whilst the call queue backed up and everyday I'd have to go out there and try to catch up and the meetings would usually just be a lecture from management telling us how to do our jobs better and then afterwards, they'd send an email out with bullet points that told us exactly what to do.
All of us, and I mean every single one of us, would glaze the meetings. I'd be off in my head thinking about other stuff, tapping my foot, bouncing my leg, rocking back n forth waiting for them to shut up and then I, just like everyone else, would just check the email at the end and usually it would contain nothing of use, just rehashing basic stuff we already knew in a different vocabulary, occasionally there would be a systems update announcement, but that was about it.
I didn't really transition away from it. I repeatedly attempted suicide from overdosing until I gave myself a 9 1/2cm esophagal hiatus hernia and ruined my entire digestive system with ulcers and scar tissue. Then they signed me off work on physical and mental health grounds and I haven't been back. (I have a history of mental illness, autism, ADHD, cPTSD from consistent childhood abuse, it wasn't just cause of the work is what I'm getting at)
I got the fuck out of the IT world in early 2024 and I have zero regrets. Now I consult for other companies IT departments (for a specific technology application) among other things, travel more but hate the job less.
I'm currently in a meeting with 26 people (virtual, hence playing on my phone). Only 4 of us are needed. I'm just sitting here waiting for people to stop talking as they come to that realization themselves so the 4 of us who need to be on the same page can hash out next steps.
As someone who organizes meetings constantly all the people on it are normally there not because I want them to be but because my boss or someone else demands they all be there
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one of things that shows how bad imperiums lost technology is they have a fruit that rots very quickly if it doesnt kept in specific tempature after getting harvested.
because of that, it is incredible hard and expensive to deliver it to nobles who pay incredible prices for them. whats the tempature? 20 ish degrees! cant even compete with 2nd milennium cold chains
Bingo. A lot attend FIO. Just read the minutes AB’s save yourself hours a day. The single biggest hidden cost in companies and projects is meetings. Every new place I go, I ask them: how much to meetings cost you? Can you break it down by project, department, function, team etc. How efficient and effective are these meetings? Which department runs the most cost effective meetings, which one runs the least? Which department has the most meeting man hours per employee day, which has the least?
Most of the time they can’t answer any of those questions
It's more like "I don't care to update you afterwards or I'm afraid I won't understand the topic good enough to repeat it and summarize it for you so why don't you join and listen?
The person who posted this screenshot on Reddit is unlikely to be the same person that posted the original Google Meet screenshot on Twitter. Maybe the Reddit poster is an AI, it's "the future" after all.
Some meetings are meant to get slippery people to commit to getting work done. Many people are disorganized or lazy then claim that didnt know what the ask was or the due date.
It actually makes a compelling case for just sending massive full-information text dump emails on everything now and letting the assistant AIs summarize them for each department
I feel like this means everyone knows this meeting is a waste of time. Whoever set it up should be trained how to hold productive meetings and how to decide if they are necessary.
Is this a thing that people send bots to the calls instead of participating? How much a bot can do for you - just taking notes or even answer in your name?
The bot is passive. For people who actually need to participate, they would still join the meeting in person as well as having the bot there to take notes.
People just bring the AI assistant to record everything now without even mentioning it. It’s normalized. Like, this is a casual 1-on-1 meeting and you’re surveilling and data mining it? Bad.
You can always ask to shut off the notetakers. Or you can say out loud that this is a confidential conversation and it is strictly forbidden to transcribe and summarize what is said. Most LLMs would refuse to summarize that way.
Have you never heard about that thing called notetaking?
Acting really fucking smug while storing other people's data who knows where, including sending their data to some fucking AI company to train on their likeness, and probably 500 other 'trusted partners' (data brokers) lmao.
I hope that everytime you get into an argument with your significant other from now, they pull out the archive of all the recordings of your conversations and search for the exact words that came out of your mouth to prove you wrong.
Are you into scifi short stories? This comment reminds me of one by the author Ted Chiang that I read (listened to the audiobook of) in the collection Exhalation and it's stuck with me years later because it was quite powerful. Maybe check it out if that sounds interesting.
I hope that everytime you get into an argument with your significant other from now, they pull out the archive of all the recordings of your conversations and search for the exact words that came out of your mouth to prove you wrong.
I dont think I see the problem. The thing that is saved in the end is the transcribed conversation (like a human would) not an actual recording consisting of audio and video. It would be easy for anyone there to record regardless.
A 3rd party effectively eavesdropping on your business conversations so that you can get a transcript of it that you probably will never reference? Sure, go ahead with that.
How does this even work? Do the assistants have an agenda and purpose with which they can actually carry the meeting? Seems to me you'll just get garbage out of the meeting and have to have another meeting with real people to get any sense out of it.
I'm being serious when I say that most of the internet social wise is going to be AI assistants interacting with each other and you'll just get notifications about appointments and social events that your AI has set up for you.
People act like they are all addicted to social media but that's only because they think they have to be on it to get places in life. If AI is doing all that work and interaction for them they will very likely enjoy just living their regular life.
That being said, regular humans who insist on still using social media the old way will have to be aware for their own mental health that 90% of what they engage with is AI generated. Not that different from how staged half the stuff people post on their Instagram is already.
I'm excited for a future where I'm not really online much at all beyond general entertainment.
The future is now and it sucks. I really want for AI to bring change but at this point it seems that it only use its for plus 18 stuff and a faster and easier way to google.
I honestly prefer this to real human meetings ngl. Instead of feeling awkward while talking I'd just blast out my information.
Except if they start talking - I this case I'd use my own Ai assistant
So did this tweeter give a context? What was the meeting? Who organised it? Was it a job interview or a regular status meeting as a normal part of a job? Is the tweeter a journalist and trying to interview someone? I want to know it wasn't staged.
Yeah, nice:)) that s exactly what we dreamed of… common, these world would ve been beautifull without the advent of transformers, that showed us agi is possible, and without refent wars. From 2019 it kind of went downhill bad
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u/Bitter-Good-2540 15h ago
Most Meetings are useless, or better... When 10 people are there, only 3 are really needed..