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ZOOM GETS AN AI UPGRADE 👩‍💻

Everybody’s best friend during the pandemic is now getting an upgrade. ☝️

What’s new? Zoom, the popular video meeting platform, has announced a re-branded AI assistant called “Zoom AI Companion” that will help enhance users’ meeting experience on the platform.

What will it offer? Upgraded from their previous assistant, Zoom IQ, Zoom AI Companion can generate summaries for meetings and chats, and these can be customized for tone and length preferences. It can also divide cloud recordings into “smart chapters” for easier review and create to-do lists following the meeting. It also has the ability to distinguish and highlight the most important parts of a conversation.

How much will it cost? Zoom AI Companion will be only be available to Zoom paid subscribers, but no additional cost will be added to this subscription.

AI CAN ATTEND MEETINGS FOR YOU 🤖

Is Google Meet enhancing human video meetings so much that it’s putting an end to them altogether? 😳

What’s up? Google Meet’s new AI feature called “Google Duet” is offering tools to enhance meetings, like Zoom’s AI Companion, but they might have taken it too far.

What does it offer? A major standout feature of Duet AI is its real-time note-taking capability. Users can click "take notes for me," and the AI will capture meeting summaries and action items as the conversation unfolds. Latecomers need not worry either, as Duet can provide mid-meeting summaries to help people catch up seamlessly. During meetings, users can also engage with a Google chatbot for private discussions about missed details, and after the meeting concludes, they can save the summary in Docs, including essential video clips.

Why does it go too far? This development includes a feature which allows Duet to "attend" a meeting on your behalf. When you receive a meeting invitation, you can select the "attend for me" option, and Google will automatically generate notes regarding the topics you intended to discuss. These notes will be visible to other attendees, facilitating discussion based on your input. While this feature can be a useful time-saver for those with scheduling conflicts or unexpected commitments, there is concern that it might be misused to avoid important meetings, potentially burdening those who do attend. Furthermore, Google Meet reportedly has a mechanism to detect if everyone is sending their AI assistants, in which case it will quickly end the call.

OVER HALF OF LLAMA RESEARCHERS QUIT META 🙅‍♂️

Q: What did the llama say when he found out he had been robbed?

A: I've been fleeced. 🦙

What happened? Over half of Meta’s original 14 Llama chatbot developers have quit the company.

Why? Meta released Llama and Llama 2 both within the past year, which is an LLM trained on a massive publicly available dataset. It also offers an open-source alternative to models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The original Llama team faced an internal battle over access to computing resources for the project which were ultimately given to those working on a rival model, which the company ultimately abandoned. This fueled over half of the researchers to quit and join other companies or startups where their work felt more valued and was fully invested in.

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