Gabe Wachob 🐵🐴👨‍💻👨‍🎤🐮

To my friends who are despairing about the election, the /r/punk subreddit is having a moment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/

We tried the zoom AI assistant today at work in a meeting.

The summary it sent to the meeting owner afterwards looks _really quite good_.

Stunning, actually.

BUT

In some places, just factually wrong about what we said. Frustrating. If it doesn't summarize meetings better than 90% then it has a lot less value. Especially in a technical meeting like this where specific decisions/conclusions are made.

It's a great way to get someone who is creating meeting notes/minutes started... but by itself, its almost worse than having no notes at all. I think if we were discussing more generic topics it might have done "better". But on this highly technical discussion with lots of unmentioned context... not so much.

I think this is true of almost all AI applications I've seen recently.

Still, fascinating.

Maybe it's because the #fediverse hasn't become overrun with forced and hucksters yet, but I'm finding that discovering great posts from people on #mastodon using #hashtags is easy and fun.

I am really digging #electronics and #hamradio right now, but that's just because it's on top of mind, and those posters probably are more technical and know the value of hashtags.

I still think discoverability is ripe for experimentation and improvement here, esp for less tech people.

@blaine @blake @delta Just so as not to step on toes of people who've been putting in the work for years...

Is #fediverse *intended* to mean the thing tied together by ActivityPub or is intended to mean the bigger concepts?

I'd hate to start changing its widely-used meaning due to ignorance.

I've seen it tied to #activitypub only, but I haven't been paying attention over a long period of time recently.