Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: AI note taking in meetings and other uses of AI in cohousing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

Voice recognition isn’t really what people are referring to as AI. It is part 
of AI and some of AI is built on voice recognition but voice recognition has 
been in active use for decades. Subtitles on films and television are often 
produced with voice recognition, sometimes to hilarious results. A 1923 film I 
watched recently had “generated subtitles”. All the women were “Ms.” The 
program had been trained to spell "Mrs" or "Miz" as "Ms"

Zoom will print transcripts that I assume are as accurate or inaccurate as a 
person would transcribe them manually.

AI is bigger — it makes decisions. Zoom just bought an AI company hoping to 
develop the ability to _summarize_ text. That is a higher level than voice 
recognition. A summary of a cohousing meeting would be interesting.

Various professional associations are developing their own programs for voice 
recognition because the vocabulary is unique to areas of the law, medicine, 
chemistry, etc.

Sharon

> On Jul 15, 2023, at 12:11 AM, Pare Gerou <paregerou [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yassou!
> 
> We are trying out an AI notetaking app for some working circle Zoom
> meetings this week (Fathom), and I wondered if anyone else has tried using
> AI for notetaking in meetings and had a good experience (or bad).
> 
> What other uses have you found AI good for in cohousing?  I am in the midst
> of rewriting our Articles of Association this week and was looking for
> samples and drafting them.  While I found plenty of Bylaw samples, but I
> found few Articles of Association samples.  For fun, I asked Chatgpt 4 to
> write Articles of Association for a cohousing community, and I was shocked
> at how accurate and effective the language was.  Good thing I am retiring
> from the law!  This profession is going to be drastically affected.   How
> will cohousing be affected?
> 
> Pare Gerou, Greek Village Cohousing
> GreekVillageCohousing [at] gmail.com
> www.GreekVillageCohousing.com
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