instinfo: How much to predict what info and get it to you during mettings?

3 points by pratt3000 1 year ago | 1 comment

I know, clickbaity.

On a seriious note, how common is it for you to be in a meeting, and get asked a question about xyz, where you know the answer but just need to find it from some document or quickly look it up on the internet. I am talking about the classic "let me check" or "let me get back to you on this after the meeting".

I am looking to scope out how big of a problem this is during meetings.

If there was a magic button that you could press to get information about the ongoing topic in discussion, and I am not takling about just generic information on the topic but a system which could predict what information you want at that point in time and it could give it to you. Do you guys feel the need for such a system? How much would you say the need is from a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being no need and 10 being I'd pay a lot for this. Also, I am not talking about information from the web this includes information from everywhere on your laptop slack, drive, maybe a LLM generated response, etc. In theory, just imagine that you'd be given the best possible answer from all available sources.

pratt3000 1 year ago |

I simplified it for the sake of this example but image an all encompassing system that doesnt necessarily ONLY bring things that you know to find but something which brings information which it knows you'd like to have.

Say you are talking about the recent tariffs with a friend and the system bring in something like 'Trump has temporarily reduced tariffs to 10% for all other countries except China recently'. This is an example of news but it could just be some random fact which is helpful in our discussion. (you can imagine a similar example for when you are sitting in a lecture and the discourse is one way)