If you have a job that involves spending a lot of time in apps like Zoom, and if you work at a company that likes to experiment on its workforce with new software features, you’ve probably gotten a few notifications about exciting new developments in meetings. Microsoft Teams user? You might be getting pinged about searchable, AI-generated meeting recaps. Part of a Google workplace? Maybe you’ve been told you can ask a chatbot to take notes for you. And if you’re the sort of person whose calendar is loaded with overlapping Zoom calls, there’s a chance you’ve heard about, or used, the company’s “AI Companion” features, which include summarized transcripts, a chat interface for getting caught up, and automatic video highlights. Perhaps you haven’t run into any of these features yet, but there’s a good chance you soon will. In the last few years, LLM-based AI technology has made it trivially easy to add transcription, summarization, and analysis tools to meetings platforms.
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