Those of you who live in 2023 will be participating in a conversation understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our lives, especially work tasks with the advent of ChatGPT. You may love or hate the idea that AI tools will spread rapidly, but given the prevalence of “post-pandemic” Zoom fatigue, everyone agrees that the timing is compelling. I agree.
Will video conferencing become such a rapidly advancing field that we can just throw a bot into the meeting and get the job done? Let’s talk about different tools that can work for us, not for us.
*Please note that middle management may be most affected by this scenario of streamlining meetings.
Let’s talk about a theoretical way to make it possible to have bots conduct meetings using our current tools. Then we share a plethora of tools that could potentially make it possible.
Right now you have to duct tape everything (figuratively), but the bot is pretty annoying when you meet someone you don’t like.
1. Preparing for the meeting
If you’ve used ChatGPT, you know you can ask the AI to take a wall of copy and turn it into streamlined, bulleted, meaningful text.
Imagine you have a meeting before the end of the day today. Not ready. But with Google Recorder, I can put all my thoughts into a verbal transcript, copy and paste it into ChatGPT (or Bard, or any other AI tool), and turn that text into intros, bullet points, etc. You can ask it to be converted to a summary containing, etc. Goals and next steps.
You might be surprised that you can already do this with out-of-the-box tools. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than him spending an hour writing part of the meeting.
2. Agenda setting
There’s nothing more annoying than having someone talk endlessly in a meeting with no agenda. And while having an agenda can be less efficient, AI-powered agenda-setting tools can automatically organize multiple agendas, prioritize topics, and time-limit items. You can set it up to keep everyone focused.
Can you imagine a bot getting in your way trying to argue Jerry’s point? shut up wonderful.
3. Stay human
When someone talks to you, you should look at that person. It’s human nature. Whether you’re a nervous person or just trying to sleep during a meeting, maintaining a polite and straight look at the camera can be difficult, even for video.
Nvidia has created an app that maintains eye contact as long as your face is on camera. It’s pretty self-explanatory:
You may end up being kicked out of the meeting and using an avatar, but for now you’ll probably have to physically join the video conference. So at least you can use this tool to make it look like you’re paying enough attention.
4. Make Captions More Than Just Captions
Most video conferencing apps today offer live transcriptions (which, let’s be honest, are still hit or miss), and third-party apps can grab those transcriptions and post-meeting notes, including speaker labels, etc. is now available. Some offer sentiment ratings for conversations, ranking who said the most and who said the least.
International collaboration has always been challenged by language barriers, but with real-time translation technology, that barrier is gone. Advanced AI algorithms already provide instant translations of what was said, creating instant captions in each participant’s native language.
Additionally, in any of these scenarios, you can also mute the speaker and ask the AI app to read the captions in real time. look? Duct tape a few tools and you’re ready to go.
5. Virtual Meeting Assistant
A virtual meeting assistant is already there, attending every meeting, holding out reminders, offering real-time suggestions, and facilitating smooth interactions. Monitor discussions to identify key issues and offer contextual suggestions to enhance the decision-making process.
These assistants can also handle administrative tasks such as sending relevant documents to attendees, scheduling follow-up meetings, and fact-checking.
6. VIRTUAL REALITY CONFERENCE ENVIRONMENT
If Tim Cook and Zuckerberg had their way, we’d all be wearing virtual reality (VR) headsets 24/7, having work meetings on virtual beaches, and having virtual meetings. You will live in a virtual world where you can hear waves and more. Have a good time virtually.
All kidding aside, the combination of AI and VR has the potential to transform our work meetings, making them more immersive and replicating physical meeting spaces. Spatial audio makes it possible to “walk” to different parts of the same conference room and hear people “nearby” louder than those farther away.
The theory here is that video conferencing could exist in three dimensions due to the idea of minimizing movement.
7. Deepfake
We’ve already established that the spoken word alone can create an agenda and the bot can keep the meeting on track, but even under all the aforementioned options, you still need to physically attend the meeting.
Now, if enough videos are available, you can create something visually similar. Also, if enough audio is available, the audio can be duplicated and used in conjunction with the video. It’s not the easiest process right now, but it’s gotten a lot easier over the past year.
We recently interviewed “Eason Musk”. A bot trained to his voice was used to ask live questions and respond immediately.
Moreover, creating deepfakes is not impossible, and you don’t even need a degree in computer science. See below.
Why not enter your notes as a script and send a deepfake? It’s very nice because it means.
There are already many AI conferencing tools you can try.
There’s a lot of overlap in the AI conferencing tools space, but each has different options, so it’s likely that one or two will suit your needs, so explore them all. Note, however, that we didn’t add any deepfakes or VR apps here, just AI conferencing tools.
- Magical – Meeting note taking calendar
- Spoke – AI-Powered Automated Transcripts, Video Highlights, and Search
- Dive – Make meetings on autopilot with automatic notes, seamless summaries and action items
- Hypercontext – Manage 1:1 meetings with your team with a collaborative agenda, meeting insights, next step tracker, real-time feedback, and integrated notes.
- Loopin – AI meeting assistant for customer-facing teams
- Avoma – AI Meeting Assistant with Revenue Intelligence
- Vidlogs – A tool for remote teams to record, transcribe, translate, search, recall and share discussions
- Laxis – Personal meeting assistant with real-time transcription and meeting highlights, personalized templates and topic maps, insight extraction, and citations
- Tactiq – Real-time transcription of meetings automatically sent to all attendees
- Vowel – Host, summarize, search and share video meetings without add-ons
- Sembly – AI team assistant transcribes, takes meeting notes, generates insights and automates follow-ups
- tl;dv – In addition to recording and transcribing, you can also create a quick clip of highlights so that everyone can quickly grasp what the meeting is about
- Amy – Get ready for meetings in seconds with direct access to your calendar
- Superpowers – No bots or recordings for AI co-pilot meetings, only high quality notes
- Waiting Rooms – AI-powered timeboxed speaking and off-camera listening can transform the fabric of collaboration.
In conclusion, AI is changing the future of video conferencing, and while we still have calendars full of Zoom calls in 2023, perhaps in 2024 we’ll have bots with scripts that look and sound like It will provide a more accessible option to just send instead. we. Gals can dream.
