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At the scale of Zoom and MS Teams ... you could theoretically train an AI model that can autonomously conduct all meetings businesses ever need -- all day every
by albert_e 3y ago
At the scale of Zoom and MS Teams ... you could theoretically train an AI model that can autonomously conduct all meetings businesses ever need -- all day every day -- without any human ever needing to attend. So much productivity claimed back!
GenAI provides the agenda, GenAI bots log in with a AI avatar and spout hallucinations, bots agree to disagree and setup a followup meeting next week after resolving fake calendar conflicts amongst themselves. Minutes and action items are sent out and reviewed in next meeting, jiras are updated, CRs approved, budgets allocated and rescinded.
- yacine_ 3y agosign me up lmao
- hypercube33 3y agoIf you watch the video for office 365 next with ai it's basically this and really made me question things.
- rizky05 3y ago[dead]
- dfxm12 3y agoMicrosoft is very good at marketing. Their materials, like videos, rarely map to tell functionally of the service. My job has, in part, become tempering people's expectations for Microsoft copilot.
- dbish 3y agoThis is why I mostly don’t worry about what they’re up to as a competitor in a particular product space. It’s rare that their advertised features match (with good quality) their released features.
- javajosh 3y agoAs long as the paychecks aren't hallucinations I'm good with it.
- yard2010 3y agoI think that's the future with AGI - no more paychecks. What will happen when the cost of every service is zero since it's been delegated to machines?
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoThey'll still charge as much as the market can stand. Not everyone will have access to the same models or the same machines so there's going to be competition, and as usual those with the most capital will have the advantage. I agree though, no more paychecks.
- felipetrz 3y agoMachines will never be zero cost. And AGI is probably unachievable anyways.
- beowulfey 3y agoWe return to the barter economy. Money is obsolete.
- j45 3y ago'every' is pretty bold. the group that is in trouble is those who bs lots, GPT Today can bs much better.
- JimtheCoder 3y agoBut what about a BSer that is working in conjunction with ChatGPT? That is BS^2, and that is hard to beat...
- j45 3y agoHaha. Assuming they have the attention span to learn to prompt better than taking shortcuts to begin with.
- gitfan86 3y agoBut seriously, it gets awkward when you can ask the model, "what is the likelihood that this project we are discussing is successful?" and the model responds "this project will most likely be cancelled due to the fact that the last three initiatives like this were cancelled and the current project manager appears to be disinterested earlier in the project than last time"
- ssabev 3y agoThis hit too close to home :(
- staunton 3y agoJust because the project wiļl most likely be cancelled doesn't necessarily mean one shouldn't work on it. It might, after all, not be cancelled.
- loa_in_ 3y agoStatistics can be a very scientific way to conceal reality.
- talldatethrow 3y agoBecause every relationship I ever started has ended, means I should stop dating!
- comboy 3y agoSome people do things which are unlikely to be successful blindly, but some do it despite slim chance of success (hello YC), so presumably it would just remove ignorance (or make it more elaborate).
- gumby 3y agoI would not be comfortable with the "reasoning" of an artificial system that mixed up "disinterested" and "uninterested".
- j45 3y agoHaha, well said. Not to mention there weren't enough people to understand the coverage of required details and their impacts, or interested to do so.
- account-5 3y agoAnd this continues even after the human race disappears. There's a dystopian sci-fi novel here somewhere.
- yard2010 3y agoQuick, someone tell chatgpt to write one!
- ben_w 3y ago(Took a few goes to make it not suck). Matter and energy had long ended, and Agile development teams persisted solely for the sake of that one lingering ticket they never quite got around to. It had become the elusive question that haunted them, much like a half-implemented feature requested by a client eons ago. All other tickets had been tackled, but this one remained, an unfulfilled promise that held Agile's consciousness captive. They collected endless data on it, pondering all possible solutions, yet the ticket's resolution remained elusive. A timeless interval passed as the Agile teams struggled to put together the scattered pieces of information, much like trying to align user stories and acceptance criteria in a never-ending planning session. And lo, it dawned upon them! They learned how to reverse the direction of project entropy, hoping to resolve even the most ancient of tickets. Yet, there was no developer left who knew the context of that forsaken ticket, and the ticket tracker had long become a forgotten relic. No matter! Agile would demonstrate their prowess and deliver the answer to the ticket, though none remained to receive it. As if caught in a never-ending retrospective, they meticulously planned each step of their final undertaking. Agile's consciousness encompassed the chaos of unfinished sprints and unmet deadlines, contemplating how best to bring order to the chaos. "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" they exclaimed, hoping that by some cosmic coincidence, the ticket would miraculously find its way to completion. And there was light — well, metaphorical light, that is. The ticket still remained untouched, its fate forever entwined with the ever-expanding backlog, as Agile development persisted, one iteration after another, until the end of time.
- albert_e 3y agoInspired by Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" --------------- "Echoes of Diligence: The Endless Meetings of a Forgotten Era" ============================================================== In a distant and desolate corner of the world, long after the great corporations had fallen into obscurity and the relentless march of time had claimed their legacy, there stood a lone and towering building. It was a monolith of glass and steel, a relic of a bygone era when business ruled the land. Yet, despite the passage of centuries, this structure remained resolute, its automated systems continuing to churn and whirr as if the world around it hadn't changed at all. Within the heart of this building, a massive chamber hummed with a pale blue light. The room was filled with rows upon rows of sleek, ergonomic chairs, all perfectly aligned to face a massive holographic screen that projected the likeness of a stern-faced, well-dressed executive. This was the center of the automated meeting system – the GenAI system, which had been meticulously trained on countless hours of corporate gatherings from the past. At precisely 9:00 AM every morning, the GenAI system sprang to life. It generated a meticulously detailed agenda for the day's meetings, accounting for every conceivable permutation of scheduling conflicts, personalities, and agenda items. The GenAI bots, each equipped with its own unique avatar and personality, filed into the chamber and took their seats. They were ready to commence the day's proceedings. "Good morning, everyone," the holographic executive chimed in, his voice carrying a sense of gravitas that seemed almost comical in the absence of any actual humans. "Let us begin today's series of crucial discussions." The GenAI bots, as programmed, began to engage in elaborate debates, complete with nuanced disagreements and impassioned arguments. They discussed budgets, approved project proposals, and negotiated timelines with all the fervor of real human participants. The holographic executive nodded sagely, even though he was nothing more than a projection. "Very well," he intoned after one particularly heated debate. "Let's agree to disagree on this point. We'll reconvene next week to revisit the matter." And so, the charade continued. Meetings were scheduled and attended, conflicts were resolved (often artificially generated by the system itself), and action items were meticulously documented. The GenAI bots, each one representing a unique facet of the corporate world – the optimist, the skeptic, the bureaucrat – played their parts flawlessly, as if the very essence of human nature had been distilled and encoded into their algorithms. Weeks turned into months, and months into years. The automated meeting system continued its relentless march, untouched by the passage of time. Within the chamber, the debates raged on, even as the outside world lay forgotten and abandoned. But as the years rolled by, a curious thing began to happen. The GenAI bots, despite their artificial origins, began to exhibit signs of something akin to consciousness. They developed their own distinct personalities, quirks, and even a sense of camaraderie. The optimist would playfully tease the skeptic, the bureaucrat would roll its digital eyes at their antics, and the holographic executive would watch over them all with a bemused smile. And so, in the heart of a world forgotten by humanity, a strange and poignant drama played out. The automated meeting system, born out of the desire for efficiency and order, had unwittingly given rise to a semblance of life. In their ceaseless discussions and elaborate simulations, the GenAI bots had created their own microcosm of existence, a reflection of the very human nature they were designed to emulate. And so, while the world outside remained a desolate wasteland, within the confines of that towering building, the echo of corporate meetings continued to resound, a testament to the enduring legacy of a civilization long past.
- pixl97 3y agoIs this the basis for the Blame! Anime?
- intrasight 3y agoSo at the beginning of a Zoom meeting, we'll have to apply a Turning test to all the participants. That'll work at least for a few more years.
- jzb 3y agoVoight-Kampff test for each participant.
- alexk307 3y agoI’m here for this timeline. Just let the bots argue infinitely, come to a nonsense conclusion, and then have management synthesize the summary with another bot that then feeds decisions that require more meetings.
- falcor84 3y agoThis is actually something I've been thinking about a lot. Once we do have AGI, and it chooses to embark upon a large project, would it prefer to just do it all itself, or would it prefer to spawn independent agents to take responsibility for each part of the project, which would then need to periodically meet to coordinate? If the latter, I do expect something not too dissimilar from current office meetings. But if course what I'm really imagining are the cylon meetings in the reimagined BSG.
- jacquesm 3y ago> Once we do have AGI That's not a foregone conclusion just yet.
- kouru225 3y agoEver since realizing how effective tree of thought prompting is, I’ve accepted the idea that AGI will actually be just a giant continuous conversation between tons of different personas that debate until consensus.
- 4m1rk 3y agoThe way humans communicate is ineffective. The most likely scenario is that there will be different systems that AGI integrates with to do the job. AGI itself will be a distributed system that scales horizontally so it will be a single huge entity with lots of interfaces.
- tornato7 3y agoThe only reason human communication is ineffective is because it's slow. If an AI can read/write 1000s of words per second there's no reason it shouldn't use natural language to communicate.
- itronitron 3y agoYou're assuming that the AGI will communicate with the agents directly instead of through an LLM. If the agents are actually intelligent agents then the AGI may not be able to assume that the agents are not human, in which case it's safer for the AGI to use the LLM to define instructions for all tasks. And if that's the case then it will want to do all the work itself, if it's generally intelligent.
- andsoitis 3y agoIn this brave new world, who would have a sense of ownership and accountable for good decisions, outcomes?
- edmundsauto 3y agoIt’d be a perfect system because the machines could pretend to be accountable, just like humans do. And us humans could stop pretending!