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AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite. (newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu)
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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Tbh note taking is something LLMs are good at

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago* (7 children)

    Transcriptions, mostly decent.

    Notes and summaries? Not if you care about accuracy.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    And transcriptions usually aren't really even AI; speech-to-text has been around a while.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Speech to text is AI and always has been.

    It wasn't always the current LLM slop bots that coopted the name, sure.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    You're 100% right, and I should know that too. “Not LLM-based” is indeed what I was intending to say.

    It gets hard to remember the (correct) broader definition when slop is being shoved into your brain through every possible orifice. Even for us that vehemently disagree, it still subconsciously molds the frameworks and language we use. It's insidious, really.

    See this article by a fellow lemming which I highly recommend.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Transcriptions, mostly decent.

    Yup, quite good

    Notes and summaries?

    It works mostly to shrink the meaning. Something that LLMs are trained for in the first place.

    And that's all. 2 separate steps that are both good and reliable to an extent. One of the best applications of ai so far

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    There was someone at work who was using read.ai for technical discussion and the few summaries I read were like someone who didn't understand the topic and couldn't tell what details were important. We would summarize the decisions and next steps and each one had at least one really important thing changed or left out.

    A transcription getting words wrong but still phonetically right is still more helpful than a misleading summary.

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