Artificial intelligence (AI) causes many fears in humans, everything indicates that it is more due to intelligence than artificial. This technological advance puts in check trades and professions that seemed untouchable until recently.
Let's see if the reviled philosophy studies, from the point of view of emoluments, will have a better future than being a businessman or a dentist.
It is also undeniable that its development offers a great prospect of advantages in all areas, from knowledge to health, including greater enjoyment of everyday life.
If Google Meet's new AI tools are indeed as effective as announced yesterday, it will mean that the nightmare of virtual meetings overlapping with other business is over. You won't even have to be there without missing out on a piece of worthwhile content.
Google announced that the new artificial intelligence tools of its Google Meet video telephony services will be able to attend a meeting instead of the user. The widget will take notes in real time with a simple click on the “take notes for me” button.
This is the great novelty that Duet AI brings. The app will do a roundup and make a summary of what is said as that appointment progresses. In case of arriving late or absent, the device will provide the user with this collection and will show what is happening as if they were in the room. You will even have the ability to speak directly in private with that chatbot to find out details.
Once the meeting has concluded, the user will be able to store the documents and consult them again, material among which there will be videos.
“With the ‘attend for me’ function, Duet AI will be able to participate in the meeting for you, make your message heard and, of course, prepare a summary for you,” the company remarked.
In his statement, and within the framework of the new Google Meet functions released this Tuesday within the framework of the Google Cloud Next event, there are subtitles with automatic translation in 18 languages, take notes, make summaries and create clips of the meeting.
According to Dave Citron, Google's senior product manager for Meet, there have been three "eras of innovation" for video conferencing. The first was the pandemic, when many people first used these services; the second was the return to a hybrid work environment; and the third is now, with the advent of AI.
“Now is the tipping point that we reached in the last eight months with LLM language models and diffusion models,” Citron noted.
Microsoft and Zoom also see this move as a good idea because it is developing its own meeting summary systems.
These tools will only be useful, however, if they accurately capture what happened in meetings, and given AI's propensity to make mistakes these days, Google will have to do a lot of work to earn trust.
In addition, Google said that it will launch its Duet AI assistant in all its Workspace applications, including Gmail, Drive, Slides and Docs for a monthly price of $30 (about 27.7 euros) per user, at least for large organizations. Aparna Pappu, the director of Workspace, told CNBC that Google has yet to set pricing for smaller businesses.
