[mgadams3]

Most new companies in this space have been using "AI" marketing to pitch a better world of video conferencing and it's been largely a failure. (unless you call getting bought and then shut down by Cisco a win)

But I 100% agree with you that this is a design problem to be solved first with better interfaces and workflows, not AI. Innovation is the sum of behavior change and AI is not going to be doing our knowledge work for us anytime soon. Given we're doin the work, we deserve better tools to do it ourselves.

I'm currently building grain.co that layers a new kind of video conferencing on top of Zoom, focused on brokering the recorded information gathered during sync calls into the async tools where knowledge lives and actual work is done after the convo ends.

Our approach is to make it easy to annotate in real-time, clip out those parts you want to save/share, and then push them into async tools where anyone can view them like it were text in a document or a message in Slack.

[ithkuil]

> [...] this is a design problem to be solved first with better interfaces and workflows, not AI > [...] I'm currently building grain.co [...] > (From website) > Instantly record, transcribe, and highlight the best parts of your Zoom video calls.

EDIT: not a criticism, just made me think of a tangentially related thing:

This is so emblematic of how AI is a moving target. Once something becomes an everyday tool it's no longer AI?

Not so long ago, being able to transcribe speech from multiple people in natural conversation would be the hallmark of AI research.