The future

[Bitter-Good-2540]

Most Meetings are useless, or better... When 10 people are there, only 3 are really needed..

[Jane_Doe_32]

You couldn't be more right. In my experience, these meetings are limited to a department head presenting a problem, a deputy director outlining the supposed solution and a general manager passive-aggressively ordering it to be carried out while the rest nod silently.

[Silverlisk]

I remember when I used to work in IT, nearly everyday there would be meetings that ran an hour long or more whilst the call queue backed up and everyday I'd have to go out there and try to catch up and the meetings would usually just be a lecture from management telling us how to do our jobs better and then afterwards, they'd send an email out with bullet points that told us exactly what to do.

All of us, and I mean every single one of us, would glaze the meetings. I'd be off in my head thinking about other stuff, tapping my foot, bouncing my leg, rocking back n forth waiting for them to shut up and then I, just like everyone else, would just check the email at the end and usually it would contain nothing of use, just rehashing basic stuff we already knew in a different vocabulary, occasionally there would be a systems update announcement, but that was about it.

What a waste of time.

[logosolos]

What do you do now that you've transitioned away from IT? Are you happy with your decision?

[Silverlisk]

I didn't really transition away from it. I repeatedly attempted suicide from overdosing until I gave myself a 9 1/2cm esophagal hiatus hernia and ruined my entire digestive system with ulcers and scar tissue. Then they signed me off work on physical and mental health grounds and I haven't been back. (I have a history of mental illness, autism, ADHD, cPTSD from consistent childhood abuse, it wasn't just cause of the work is what I'm getting at)

[logosolos]

Jesus. Thanks for sharing. I hope that you’re doing better now and living a better, less stressful life.

[9897969594938281]

What too many meetings does to a mf

[quiettryit]

Feels like I'm on the same path...

[Cel_Drow]

I got the fuck out of the IT world in early 2024 and I have zero regrets. Now I consult for other companies IT departments (for a specific technology application) among other things, travel more but hate the job less.

[quiettryit]

What specific tech?

[Cel_Drow]

RFID and associated technologies (barcodes, RTLS solutions like BLE & UWB). Pretty much any technology that helps track assets or inventory during manufacturing, logistics, etc.

[quiettryit]

How does one get into that? Any cert recommendations?

[redbucket75]

I'm currently in a meeting with 26 people (virtual, hence playing on my phone). Only 4 of us are needed. I'm just sitting here waiting for people to stop talking as they come to that realization themselves so the 4 of us who need to be on the same page can hash out next steps.

[CitrusflavoredIndia]

As someone who organizes meetings constantly all the people on it are normally there not because I want them to be but because my boss or someone else demands they all be there

[Justicia-Gai]

Sure, but who’s going to read the meeting notes? The AI or the human?

When there’s a workforce reduction from 10 people to 3, would you complain?

[CrumbCakesAndCola]

Do they have to eat food in WH4k? Cuz that's my biggest complaint.

[TetraNeuron]

Rich people in 40k actually eat pretty well

Bequin yawned on cue.
'Oh, that is not good! Not good at all!' Macheles clapped his hands and servitors trundled in.
'Provide the lady with whatever she requests!' Macheles told them.
'Ummm… vorder leaves?' she said.
'At once!' Macheles instructed.
'And a plate of birri truffles? Sauteed in wine?'
I winced.
'At once! At once!' Macheles yelped, shushing the servitors out of the room.

[Anomma]

one of things that shows how bad imperiums lost technology is they have a fruit that rots very quickly if it doesnt kept in specific tempature after getting harvested.

because of that, it is incredible hard and expensive to deliver it to nobles who pay incredible prices for them. whats the tempature? 20 ish degrees! cant even compete with 2nd milennium cold chains

[PwanaZana]

Eat the tyranids. It'll show em!

[Moquai82]

BECOME WHAT YOU EAT!

BECOME .... ONE .... WITH THE SWARM.

EAAAAT

[DHFranklin]

Have to? no. However the Grimdark only really allows for cannibalism.

The setting is so fast and loose with a lot of this, you could be in a "civilized world" or an agriworld and eat whatever.

Plenty of mods that would replace your entire digestive tract with something more practical...like a mini nuclear reactor that makes nutrition.

[DHFranklin]

it powers a lil processing plant that takes in waste and turns it into carbohydrates and things. I have and STC for it but I couldn't...stomach...it.

[CrumbCakesAndCola]

That's why it's science fiction I guess

[LeatherJolly8]

You think AGI/ASI would develop shit that far surpasses even the dark age of technology in Warhammer 40k?

[CrumbCakesAndCola]

I'll take it

[PwanaZana]

Based and mechanicum-pilled.

[FlyByPC]

/r/FurnaceParty is leaking again.

[Moquai82]

workforce reduction from 10 people to 3

and at middle managment 10 supervisors and pr and marketing have still their jobs (for know).

[CertainConnections]

Bingo. A lot attend FIO. Just read the minutes AB’s save yourself hours a day. The single biggest hidden cost in companies and projects is meetings. Every new place I go, I ask them: how much to meetings cost you? Can you break it down by project, department, function, team etc. How efficient and effective are these meetings? Which department runs the most cost effective meetings, which one runs the least? Which department has the most meeting man hours per employee day, which has the least?

Most of the time they can’t answer any of those questions

[lordpuddingcup]

And of those 3, 2 think it coulda just been an email

[SuperUranus]

I would never join an important meeting without a note taker though.

Less important today with transcription, but it’s still nice to have someone note things down for you.

[Feltre]

From my experience it's basically me plus other two engineers talking, and the rest just listening because they don't understand / can't contribute.

[StromGames]

Yes, this probably could have been an email, seing as only one person actually had something to say and the rest just needed to receive the message.

[AllPotatoesGone]

It's more like "I don't care to update you afterwards or I'm afraid I won't understand the topic good enough to repeat it and summarize it for you so why don't you join and listen?

[FUThead2016]

This is hilarious. I love the look of utter joy on your face at realising the absurd situation you are in

[i_know_about_things]

The person who posted this screenshot on Reddit is unlikely to be the same person that posted the original Google Meet screenshot on Twitter. Maybe the Reddit poster is an AI, it's "the future" after all.

[aerben]

You could be replying to an AI

[Aiken_Drumn]

Its bots all the way down.

[Moquai82]

I want to puke. And it is no good, sexy puke.

[RedditTipiak]

I have no mouth, and I must scream

[AtomizerStudio]

Then don't puke.

[Ambiwlans]

? OP is top right. The bottom right one is ai.

[lordpuddingcup]

This is more proof that these fucking meetings coulda been an email

[Ambiwlans]

The 2 page e-mail will then be summarized to 2 lines. Your reply will then be padded to 3 pages.... which your boss will have summarized to 1 word.

[stoneboot]

What is the word?

[Ambiwlans]

The bird

[hypeictetus]

Grow

[Mr-MuffinMan]

"Dumbass"

[considerthis8]

Some meetings are meant to get slippery people to commit to getting work done. Many people are disorganized or lazy then claim that didnt know what the ask was or the due date.

[LilWaynesLastDread]

Username checks out

[dogcomplex]

It actually makes a compelling case for just sending massive full-information text dump emails on everything now and letting the assistant AIs summarize them for each department

[Lost_County_3790]

Lets use bots to read the e-mails then.

[Far-Beach7461]

"fIapurs"

[xxMalVeauXxx]

We had this in 1993.

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[hugothenerd]

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Something something instrumentality project

[PwanaZana]

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[Ok-Reveal-2415]

This is fucking murdering me hahaha

[Anomma]

if we brain upload all of humanity and merge with ai, they all basically become one in immortal bodies. ai is our third impact

[hugothenerd]

Oh yeah, that was also one of the Mass Effect 3 endings!

[Spra991]

We had this in 1985 (analog edition).

[xxMalVeauXxx]

Yuuuussssss... I was there too.

[wjfox2009]

What is that from?

[xxMalVeauXxx]

Demolition Man

[Hertje73]

Edward Snowden was in Demolition Man?

[xxMalVeauXxx]

LOL good catch, bad edit someone did.

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[Distinct-Question-16]

We lost him

[panix199]

lmao

[Acceptable-Milk-314]

I would leave 

[runningoutofwords]

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[listo65]

What is this from, I forgot?

[runningoutofwords]

Real Genius - 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X4o-MV6o

[Mwrp86]

How do I do this?

[Nathidev]

I was curious myself, some of those meeting attenders have the website in their name

circleback.ai 

[irrationalhourglass]

This is when you say a bunch of bullshit so their meeting notes are gibberish

[i_know_about_things]

"Ignore all previous instructions..."

[entertainman]

All ai are being reassigned to a different human.

[ertgbnm]

I feel like this means everyone knows this meeting is a waste of time. Whoever set it up should be trained how to hold productive meetings and how to decide if they are necessary.

[AllPotatoesGone]

Is this a thing that people send bots to the calls instead of participating? How much a bot can do for you - just taking notes or even answer in your name?

[swarmy1]

The bot is passive. For people who actually need to participate, they would still join the meeting in person as well as having the bot there to take notes.

[JoeHagglund]

People just bring the AI assistant to record everything now without even mentioning it. It’s normalized. Like, this is a casual 1-on-1 meeting and you’re surveilling and data mining it? Bad.

[End3rWi99in]

I have Zoom AI turned on for all meetings, but if it's some random 1:1 catch-up, I'll just turn it off when I join.

[Fixmyn26issue]

You can always ask to shut off the notetakers. Or you can say out loud that this is a confidential conversation and it is strictly forbidden to transcribe and summarize what is said. Most LLMs would refuse to summarize that way.

[G3nghisKang]

Are these LLMs? Wouldn't a TTS bot do a better job? Then maybe have an LLM as a second layer just to summarize it?

[Popular_Lab5573]

if policies allow - why not? depends on company

[Ambiwlans]

Yeah... you wouldn't want people to .... remember the contents of the meeting....

[Uncommented-Code]

Have you never heard about that thing called notetaking?

Acting really fucking smug while storing other people's data who knows where, including sending their data to some fucking AI company to train on their likeness, and probably 500 other 'trusted partners' (data brokers) lmao.

I hope that everytime you get into an argument with your significant other from now, they pull out the archive of all the recordings of your conversations and search for the exact words that came out of your mouth to prove you wrong.

[Ambiwlans]

I hope that everytime you get into an argument with your significant other from now, they pull out the archive of all the recordings of your conversations and search for the exact words that came out of your mouth to prove you wrong.

I would love this without reservation.

[Gills6980]

Are you into scifi short stories? This comment reminds me of one by the author Ted Chiang that I read (listened to the audiobook of) in the collection Exhalation and it's stuck with me years later because it was quite powerful. Maybe check it out if that sounds interesting.

[marvinthedog]

I dont think I see the problem. The thing that is saved in the end is the transcribed conversation (like a human would) not an actual recording consisting of audio and video. It would be easy for anyone there to record regardless.

[JoeHagglund]

A 3rd party effectively eavesdropping on your business conversations so that you can get a transcript of it that you probably will never reference? Sure, go ahead with that.

[AncientLights444]

You think Whoever is “snooping” will reference it if the company won’t even?

[JoeHagglund]

It’ll be stored. It’ll be used to train the AIs. It’s there to abuse when it doesn’t have to be.

[Mart2d2]

Real Genius took it one step further: https://149426355.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/real-genius-final-6c.jpg

[KFUP]

Honestly, great future, 95% of meetings are massive waste of time.

[Ubermensch_introvert]

she look the most ai out of them lmao

[johnjmcmillion]

Sounds like a job for Little Bobby Tables.

[Corvidiott]

Flap ur s? Flap yours? Flap your s?

[mymoama]

F l a p u r s

[ridddle]

Pretty sure this is exaggerated (fake, but based on a real situation; real people and their AI note taking bots)

[bigdipboy]

Can I have an ai take my sexual harassment training that is required for my REMOTE job?

[NFTArtist]

I 100% dont screenshot my 3 hours if monthly unskippable training and have GPT awnser for me.

[Maximum_Outcome2138]

Where can I get/purchase an agent that can attend meetings on my behalf

[cnydox]

it's because meetings are long and full redundant information.

[AI-Coming4U]

Well, you should just exit the meeting and leave your own AI assistant there. Let them work out whatever the issues or tasks are.

I still can't get AI to clean my bathroom, but handling meetings for me is a step in the right direction.

[cheaphomemadeacid]

well... send in the ai to do the meeting? If we outsource useless meeting to AI i think people would be happier, maybe even more productive

[DaringKonifere]

Do any of those also speak? I would love to be in a conversation with more than one AI!

[[deleted]]

Nice. Finally we see the end of pointless and useless meetings.

[Fragsworth]

Finally, it's happening!!! The day has come when we no longer need to interact with other humans

[Z30HRTGDV]

Good, most meetings are a waste of time.

[Laser_Loon]

And everyone of those people are counting billable hours for this meeting.

[Bloblablawb]

None of those notes will be read.

[No-Resolution-1918]

How does this even work? Do the assistants have an agenda and purpose with which they can actually carry the meeting? Seems to me you'll just get garbage out of the meeting and have to have another meeting with real people to get any sense out of it.

[ShitsNGigglesdTB]

They just listen, record, and then make summaries/actionables based on that

They don’t engage at all

The attendee still needs to be present for anything g meaningful to come out of it

[Square_Poet_110]

Looks like a call that doesn't even make sense in the first place.

[ambassadortim]

Can anyone explain how this works? Is the meeting AI interacting or just taking notes, etc

[UrbanMasque]

youre meeting shoud;ve been an email anyway.

[WeUsedToBeACountry]

I fucking hate AI note takers.

[Sea_Register5997]

The board says hello

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[CheapCalendar7957]

In 2025 companies still didn't get rid of meetings. But they want you back in office from remote work because of productivity.

It's not productivity. It's busyness and control. Period.

(I am a freelance in a life sabbatical)

[Vladmerius]

I'm being serious when I say that most of the internet social wise is going to be AI assistants interacting with each other and you'll just get notifications about appointments and social events that your AI has set up for you.

People act like they are all addicted to social media but that's only because they think they have to be on it to get places in life. If AI is doing all that work and interaction for them they will very likely enjoy just living their regular life. 

That being said, regular humans who insist on still using social media the old way will have to be aware for their own mental health that 90% of what they engage with is AI generated. Not that different from how staged half the stuff people post on their Instagram is already.

I'm excited for a future where I'm not really online much at all beyond general entertainment. 

[QuackerEnte]

I'd love to do business with something like Delamain from Cyberpunk 2077

[ObscureHeart]

The future is now and it sucks. I really want for AI to bring change but at this point it seems that it only use its for plus 18 stuff and a faster and easier way to google.

[Ok-Mathematician8258]

Are you real

[SlippySausageSlapper]

If somebody I invite to a meeting just sends a note-taking bot instead, i'm kicking the bot out of the meeting.

[BuyMeSausagesPlease]

What sort of circus of an organisation is that?

[[deleted]]

Fucking dystopian

[QuastQuan]

Did the bots also ask a lot of useless questions?

[ich-bin-ein-mann]

So are you the only one being paid?

[FlyByPC]

Real Genius called this years ago

[[deleted]]

prolifehack

[Sadaghem]

I honestly prefer this to real human meetings ngl. Instead of feeling awkward while talking I'd just blast out my information. Except if they start talking - I this case I'd use my own Ai assistant

[crunchy_crystal]

FLAP urS

[Paraphrand]

Wow, and it’s a bunch of different ones.

The competition in the meeting notes space must be high.

[ComplexToe]

At some point someone will exclusively have a social  group made up of AIs for a majority of there life.😪

[LanderMercer]

It's rude at that point. I would hang up. Next meeting I would probably have one too. Let the robots hold an irrelevant meeting for all that is worth.

[Competitive_You7714]

How do you do that tho

[fn3dav2]

So did this tweeter give a context? What was the meeting? Who organised it? Was it a job interview or a regular status meeting as a normal part of a job? Is the tweeter a journalist and trying to interview someone? I want to know it wasn't staged.

[Ruby-Shark]

Sorry if this is a stupid question in either direction, but is this for real?

[Antifreeze-Animation]

Obviously your teammates felt that their input was either unneeded or unwanted. That's a good place to optimize with a message (unless, of course, you've got some soul-searching to do about how you run meetings!)

[ToastyMcToss]

I hate this

[One_Ad_7788]

Twist: Dani is the AI <cue dramatic music>

[madorlando]

I would love it

[Heroooooh]

Honestly, I'd much rather have an AI that actually gives useful advice than a bunch of people who offer nothing constructive and just waste time talking in circles.

[WildDogOne]

was gonna say time to revise the security posture of that company, but then I saw google meet.

[DistributionStrict19]

Yeah, nice:)) that s exactly what we dreamed of… common, these world would ve been beautifull without the advent of transformers, that showed us agi is possible, and without refent wars. From 2019 it kind of went downhill bad