Fireflies' AI Minute Taker, ScarJo vs. OpenAI, Catchup with "AI Breakfast" & Much More!!!

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In todays Article:

• FIREFLIES: Your Personal Ai Minute taker!

• It’s “Her” Voice: Open Ai, ScarJo & Sam Altman.

• 5 Ai News you should care about this week

• Catch up on everything Ai with Ai Breakfast

• We love your feedback!

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Minute taking 😭😭😭😭. If there’s any nightmarish, soul crushing task I’d love to delegate, it’s this!!! The endless scribbling, the frantic note-taking, and the pressure to capture every detail accurately—it’s enough to make anyone’s head spin.

But fear not! Fireflies is here 🤩🤩🤩🤩!

Fireflies is an AI voice assistant that helps transcribe, take notes, and complete actions during meetings.

So what does it do exactly?

Organizing Meetings: Fireflies streamlines the process of scheduling and managing meetings. It helps coordinate participants, set agendas, and ensure everyone is on the same page.

Transcribing and Recording Meetings: Fireflies is your ultimate meeting companion, capturing every word and transforming it into valuable text. From discussions to decisions, action items and whats great, teams can add comments and reactions directly to the meeting recordings and transcripts.

Isolating Key Information: Fireflies identifies crucial details such as dates, times, metrics, tasks, and questions. You can easily filter and search for specific information later.

Speaker Insights: Fireflies provides a list of everyone who spoke, along with word-per-minute statistics and percentages relative to others. It’s valuable for tracking participation. (Yes even John's dominating talk time, no detail goes unnoticed)

Integration with Major Platforms: Fireflies seamlessly integrates with all major meeting platforms, including Teams, Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Skype. This versatility ensures a smooth experience for users.

Generative AI for Clarifications: Fireflies’ “Ask Fred” allows users to get filled in on any information they’ve missed or need clarifications about. It’s like having an AI assistant to answer your meeting’s questions.

Tiered Pricing: Fireflies offers tiered pricing, starting with a free plan that includes 800 minutes of meeting storage😊 !! Paid plans begin at $18 per user per month.

Give Fireflies a try, and let us know how it enhances your team’s meeting efficiency!

TOP 5 AI NEWS PICKS

1. Truecaller AI Voice: Truecaller partnering with Microsoft's Azure AI Speech will let users create AI versions of their voices to answer calls. The users can decide if to pick the call or have the AI assistant answer the call on their behalf. Read the news here 

2. Her OpenAI: In the age of AI do you own your voice? Scarlet Johansson lawsuit against OpenAI will be one to watch with broad ramifications for us all. Check the genesis of the lawsuit here:

3.  Microsoft Rolls out ‘Recall’. The introduction of ‘Recall’ has divided opinion with Elon Musk calling it a Black Mirror episode, Satya Nadella calls its Sematic search in this interview 

4. We know how AI works…Sort of: The inner working of AI models are still a mystery, Researchers from AI Lab Anthropic appear to have cracked this vexing question but a lot still remains unknown, Check it out here:

5. A Muslim President, Glue Pizza and eating Rocks: Google’s AI Overviews has lately been generating erroneous and at times comical responses, from labelling President Obama a Muslim to advising on eating rocks, Google has labelled these responses as ‘Isolated examples’ an insisted the feature is generally working well. Check the story here and here 

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• Curated Content: The newsletter selects the most relevant and impactful stories and analyses in the field of AI.

• Expert Opinions: It often includes insights and opinions from experts in the industry.

• The Comic strips: It cleverly incorporates funny comic strips to lighten up the often serious subject of artificial intelligence. These comic strips are a delightful addition that provides a humorous perspective on AI trends and mishaps.

• The easy layout of the Newsletter, makes it a quick read

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AI TOOLS TO BOOST PRODUCTIVITY THIS WEEK!

1. Notion: An all-in-one workspace for note-taking, project management, and collaboration.

2. Writesonic: Create engaging content for digital ads, blog posts, and more with diverse content templates and SEO optimization.

3. QuillBot: Refine writing, summarize articles, and research topics effectively with paraphrasing, grammar checking, and summarization features

4. Zapier: Automate tasks across over 2,000 web apps without coding, streamlining workflows for enhanced efficiency

5. Consensus: Extract valuable insights from research papers instantly with a vast database and AI-powered summaries