Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: From fascination to concern File notes, discussion summaries… The American company is launching a new tool in the United States based on artificial intelligence to save you long and painful meetings.
As soon as you dropped the kids off at school this morning, your mailbox was already full of invitations to online meetings on the first day of school. Just the thought of all the hours in which you have to listen to your colleagues argue about the same topic for the umpteenth time makes you tired in advance. Good news: Google announced on August 29 the launch of a new technological solution called Duet AI, based on artificial intelligence, which allows its users to either show up late to a meeting organized by Google Meet (the tool provides you with a summary of that). what was said before you connected) or… to eliminate it completely and be replaced by a kind of digital double, thanks to the “Assist for me” function.
A somewhat long discussion
Let’s not get carried away: this “digital double” will not be an artificial and animated image of you (no one will believe that you are physically in front of your screen, there is no question of deceiving your interlocutors here) and you will be do anyway There is still a little to do: for the system to work, you need to send Duet AI before the meeting the list of points on which you wanted to intervene or the questions you wanted to formulate. In return, the tool gives you a summary of the meeting it “attended” on your behalf via the “Take Notes for Me” feature. However, if you are in a hurry to give a presentation, Duet AI can do that for you too by fetching the necessary documents directly from your Google Drive.
If you actually participate in a face-to-face discussion, but it gets a little long and your mind wanders, the tool can take notes for you and in turn provide you with an overall summary at the end of the meeting, specifies the Digital Factory. In addition, it is programmed to allow meetings to be subtitled in 18 languages.
A general public version will be available in 2024
Currently, the tool is only available in the US and companies pay $30 (28 euros) per month per user, according to CNBC. A general public version should be offered in early 2024, announced the vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, Aparna Pappu. Users of Microsoft’s Office suite will soon be able to access a similar service via the Copilot assistant from the company co-founded by Bill Gates, Le Monde also reports. In the meantime, to pretend that you are working remotely, it is better to follow the advice of Internet users who explain how to move your computer mouse mechanically (there are many tutorials on YouTube) to give the impression that you work remotely. we are online and active while we take a nap or watch the latest Netflix series…