Artificial intelligence can replace you in your Google Meet meetings

Google announced on Tuesday that new artificial intelligence (AI) tools in its Google Meet video calling services can “attend” a meeting and take notes instead of the user.

“With the ‘attend for me’ feature, Duet AI can join the meeting for you, deliver your message and, of course, prepare a summary for you,” the company said in a statement.

New Google Meet features, announced today at the Google Cloud Next event, include: machine-translated closed captioning in 18 languages, note-taking, summarization, and meeting snippet creation.

In addition, users can speak privately with a Google chatbot to discuss the details of the ongoing conference.

According to Dave Citron, Google’s senior product manager for Meet, there have been three “eras of innovation” for video conferencing.

The first was the pandemic, when many people first used these services; the second was the return to a hybrid work environment and the third is now, with the advent of AI.

“This is the tipping point we’ve reached in the past eight months with LLM language models and diffusion models,” Citron noted.

Google announced today that it will be rolling out its Duet AI assistant to all of its Workspace apps, including Gmail, Drive, Slides, and Docs, for a monthly price of $30 per user, at least for large organizations.

Aparna Pappu, director of Workspace, told CNBC that Google has not set prices for smaller companies.

That’s the same price Microsoft charges for its AI system called Copilot, which has similar features that work in most Office apps.

Yesterday, OpenAI, a company that gained popularity last year after launching its ChatGPT chatbot, ChatGPT Enterprise, launched a version for businesses.

However, the company did not disclose the subscription price. (JO)

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