AI's making meetings suck less 🤯

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• AI takes the waste out of meetings 🤯

• Need a slide deck? There’s an AI tool for that ✅

• The big boys are getting into AI 👿

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AI takes the waste out of meetings

Anyone who knows me knows how much I loathe wasteful meetings. Like, I hate them with a passion that’s a bit on the ridiculous side. Thankfully, AI is turning things around.

Enter tools like Vowel, Paxo, and AskFred – which are using AI to make meetings way less awful.

Paxo is an app that records your meetings (whether in person or virtual) and uses AI to ID voices and establish action items.

AskFred, from fireflies.ai, is a meeting assistant powered by OpenAI’s GPT. Fred can transcribe and summarize your meetings and also answer any questions about the meeting.

Vowel helps teams host, summarize, search, and share meetings and recently launched AI-powered automated meeting summaries.

So, while it turns out that meeting likely could’ve been an email, AI is helping teams get the most out of their meeting times. Well done, robots.

Need a slide deck? There’s an AI tool for that

Speaking of things in our workday that are terrible, have you ever been tasked with building a slide deck? IYKYK. If not, I wouldn’t recommend it.

That said, AI is helping to make the experience of building presentations much more enjoyable. SlidesAI is a text-to-presentation tool that converts text into slides in seconds. Users can select the presentation’s tone and number of slides, and wala, you’ve got a presentation.

Currently, SlidesAI is available as an add-on for Google Slides via the Google Workspace Marketplace. But support for Microsoft Powerpoint, and presumably, other deck builders, is forthcoming.

Big boys are getting into AI

It was only a matter of time. The big boys are finding ways to leverage AI in their well-established products, too.

Earlier this week, Snapchat introduced a (rather cool) tool that leverages ChatGPT to serve as a “friend” on Snapchat. While many other tools are simply dumping in a ChatGPT-like experience into their apps, Snap has found some unique utility inside the existing experience. They’ve trained the AI to adhere to the company’s trust and safety guidelines, so it’ll avoid dicey topics. It also won’t write school papers. I like the fact that it’s less of a “productivity” tool and more of a persona inside the app.

Elsewhere, Meta announced plans to do something similar with its WhatsApp and Messanger products. Call me crazy, but this one feels a bit ickier than the Snapchat one.

Instacart and Shopify also unveiled their own tilts on AI. Instacart’s is a ChatGPT-powered shopping assistant that lets users ask questions like “what’s a healthy lunch for my kids.” Shopify’s AI writes product descriptions, which is, of course, a hassle for its huge user base of e-comm sellers.

With ChatGPT’s API unveiling, I’m sure this isn’t the last we’ve heard of AI infiltrating the tools and products we use every day.

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Cheers,

Ben