Artificial intelligence (AI) causes a lot of anxiety in humans, everything points to more intelligence than artificiality. This technological advance endangers trades and professions that seemed untouchable until recently.
Now it will turn out that the maligned Philosophy studies, from the point of view of emoluments, will have a better future than businessmen or dentists.
It is also undeniable that its development offers a great perspective of advantages in all areas, from knowledge to health, passing through the fact of being able to enjoy everyday things more.
If Google Meet’s new AI tools are indeed as effective as announced yesterday, this will mean the nightmare of virtual meetings that coincide with other work will be over. You won’t even have to be there, and I won’t miss a single grain of the content that’s worth it.
Google announced that the new artificial intelligence tools of its video telephony services Google Meet will be able to attend a meeting instead of the user. The artifact will make 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 application will write a summary and summarize what is said as the meeting progresses. If you arrive late or are absent, the device will make it easier for the user to collect and show what is happening as if you were in the room. You’ll even have the ability to talk directly to the chatbot privately to find out more.
After the meeting has ended, the user will be able to store the documents, including videos, and consult them again.
“With the ‘attend for me’ feature, Duet AI will be able to participate in the meeting for you, get your message heard and, of course, prepare a summary for you,” the company said.
In its statement, the new features of Google Meet released this Tuesday during the Google Cloud Next event, include 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 used these services for the first time; the second was the return to a hybrid work environment; and the third is now, with the arrival of AI.
“We are now reaching the tipping point that we have reached in the last eight months with LLM language models and diffusion models,” noted Citron. Microsoft and Zoom also see this development as a good idea because they are developing their meeting summary systems.
These tools will only be useful, however, if they accurately capture what happened in meetings, and given AI’s current propensity for making mistakes, Google will have to work hard to earn its trust.
In addition, Google noted that it will roll out its Duet AI assistant to all of its Workspace apps, including Gmail, Drive, Slides, and Docs, for a monthly price of $30 (about 27.7 euros) for large organizations. Aparna Pappu, director of Workspace, told CNBC that Google has not yet set prices for smaller businesses.
