Get Ready to Chuckle: AI Tools are Surfing in to Revolutionize Those Dull Work Meetings!
“A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings”
“Gartner predicts that by 2023, AI algorithms will generate 95 percent of the content produced for online meetings,” starts a thought-provoking piece over at Wired. This prediction starts up the imagination, sending us spiralling into a future of robotic homogeneity. Yet, before panic sets in about being replaced by a computer program, let’s take a more nuanced look at this AI singularity.
Envision its potential: endless slides of perfectly written content, optimized in real time, accurately presenting meaty stats without a single yawn in sight. Oh, the nirvana of meetings—no rambling, time-consuming conversations. No fumbled words or awkward pauses. Everything concise, clear, on point.
However, hold on. Imagine a world where that quintessentially human quirk, error, is eradicated. No more misquoting of figures, no mispronunciations, no complete misses recalling the title of the report being discussed. Ruthlessly efficient, yes, but a little… bland, don’t you think?
Interestingly, while Gartner presents a future dominated by AI algorithms, our friends over at listening.ai are shifting their focus to the other end of the spectrum. Celebrating that decidedly human trait – listening. Introducing the concept of ‘on the fly transcription’, Listening.ai aims to make us better listeners in meetings. A subtle nod towards the importance of empathy, understanding, and communication—those wonderfully human characteristics that can’t be programmed.
Despite the looming grandeur of the AI singularity, it’s easy to overlook one key detail. AI algorithms, no matter how brilliant they seem, are still programmed by humans. There’s a possible plot twist in the grand narrative of AI replacing people in meetings as well.
Then, of course, there’s the little issue of trust. It’s easy to program algorithms and machine learning systems to crunch the numbers, but are they to be entrusted with sensitive meeting details? And let’s not even get into potential hacking threats…
Does this mean a robot uprising is inevitable? Without a doubt, no. While AI has tremendous potential to streamline business operations, it can’t duplicate those ineffable human traits that make a meeting, well, a meeting.
Ultimately, it boils down to this: AI algorithms could, indeed, be the future of meeting content. But does this spell the end of human involvement in meetings? Not quite. Instead, anticipate a future where AI algorithms and human inputs work in harmony, each making up for the other’s lack. Now that’s a storyline that seems more probable and, honestly, far more desirable. Content generation may very well be dominated by AI, but meetings, those will always require a human touch.