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

[Pare Gerou (paregerou]

Yes- This AI Fathom app features the ability to simultaneously summarize,
highlight, recognize speakers, and do other cool things.  It may possibly
respond to subtle cues.  We will try both secretary-made notes and AI-made
notes in the next few meetings.  While the assumption is that member-made
notes are vastly superior, they are a representation of what that notetaker
understood of the topic and what was going on at that time as well as what
the notetaker was focused on.  While notes are available for corrections,
my experience has been few to none have the time to read over and object to
portions of notes from the past.  When we have used transcripts from voice
recognition, the notes are too voluminous and no one reads them again....

The more incredible AI feature in my opinion was what AI did with a prompt
something like "Create Articles of Organization for a Cohousing community
using Sociocracy."  It was surprising how accurate it was compared to what
we are drafting.

Pare

On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 6:34 AM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> 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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