4 days ago
No one likes meetings. They're sending their AI note takers instead.
Clifton Sellers attended a Zoom meeting last month where robots outnumbered humans.
He counted six people on the call including himself, Sellers recounted in an interview. The 10 others attending were note-taking apps powered by artificial intelligence that had joined to record, transcribe and summarize the meeting.
Some of the AI helpers were assisting a person who was also present on the call — others represented humans who had declined to show up but sent a bot that listens but can't talk in their place. The human-machine imbalance made Sellers concerned that the modern thirst for AI-powered optimization was starting to impede human interaction.
