Venture Step

Keywords

AI, workplace, Microsoft Teams, gaming, energy demands, Warner Bros, Slack, innovation

Summary

In this episode of Vigistep Podcasts, host Dalton Anderson discusses the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and its implications for the workplace, particularly focusing on tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack. He shares personal experiences with AI features, critiques their effectiveness, and explores the role of AI in gaming and media. The conversation also touches on the energy demands of AI innovation and the future of AI integration in various industries.

Takeaways

AI is increasingly becoming integrated into workplace tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack.
Personal experiences with AI tools reveal mixed effectiveness and accessibility issues.
The potential for AI to automate mundane tasks is exciting but raises questions about human involvement.
AI's role in gaming is evolving, with companies like EA exploring innovative uses.
Energy demands for AI innovation are a growing concern as usage increases.
Warner Bros is leveraging AI for more efficient captioning processes.
Slack's AI features aim to enhance productivity by summarizing information and managing tasks.
The competition between tech giants like Microsoft and Google is shaping AI development.
AI's rapid advancement is unprecedented, with significant improvements in efficiency.
Personal commitment to projects can lead to unexpected success and growth.

Sound Bites

"AI is coming to your workplace."
"I would love a world like that."
"Thank AI for that."

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to AI in the Workplace
02:27 Exploring AI Tools in Microsoft Teams
09:54 AI Features in Teams Premium
14:26 The Future of AI in Project Management
19:41 AI Innovations in Gaming with EA
27:06 Energy Demands of AI Technology
32:29 AI in Media: Warner Bros and Google
35:24 Slack's AI Integration and Future Prospects
39:12 Conclusion and Personal Reflections

Support

AI is Transforming the Gaming Industry
https://news.abplive.com/technology/electronic-arts-ea-ai-system-text-to-game-imagination-to-creation-tool-without-coding-video-watch-1720729#:~:text=EA
https://venturebeat.com/ai/electronic-arts-goes-deep-into-artificial-intelligence-for-game-development/#:~:text=The
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ea-embraces-ai-says-60-of-its-game-development-could-be-impacted#:~:text=Wilson
https://www.ea.com/technology/research/ai-machine-learning#:~:text=AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8F55oFJjRQ
The Rise of AI in the Workplace
https://slack.com/features/ai
https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/copilot-teams
https://slack.com/features/ai
https://workspace.google.com/solutions/ai/
The Energy Demand of AI
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-kairos-power-nuclear-energy-agreement/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/amazon-nuclear-small-modular-reactor-net-carbon-zero


Creators & Guests

Host
Dalton Anderson
I like to explore and build stuff.

What is Venture Step?

Venture Step Podcast: Dive into the boundless journey of entrepreneurship and the richness of life with "Venture Step Podcast," where we unravel the essence of creating, innovating, and living freely. This show is your gateway to exploring the multifaceted world of entrepreneurship, not just as a career path but as a lifestyle that embraces life's full spectrum of experiences. Each episode of "Venture Step Podcast" invites you to explore new horizons, challenge conventional wisdom, and discover the unlimited potential within and around you.

Dalton Anderson (00:01.818)
Welcome to Vigistep Podcasts where we discuss entrepreneurship, industry trends, and the occasional worldview. It seems like everywhere you turn, there is some new announcement about artificial intelligence. This week, we're going to be diving into these more recent AI developments, but that will soon affect you. AI is coming to your workplace and into your life if you like it or not.

And so it's good to be informed about what's going on. What are the new features and how may you potentially utilize them? And if I've already tried them, I'll give you my opinion on what I think it's good at and what it's lacking. So today we're going to talk about in no particular order. think I'm talking about teams first, then I'll move over to the other items. EA's new tools or suite of tools related to AI. They have an AI tool related to

generating assets like 3D assets, which are very time consuming. They have an AI tool that does like text to gaming, which is pretty cool. And then the Warner Bros discovery, Warner Bros discovery partnered with Google using Vertex studio to do some stuff with captioning, which is pretty nice. Copilot is becoming more integrated with other Microsoft apps and Slack.

Slack AI is here. But before we dive in, I'm your host Dalton Anderson. My background is a bit of a mix of programming, data science and insurance offline. You can find me running, putting my side business or loss in a good book. You can listen to his podcasts in both the video and audio format on YouTube. If audio is more your thing, you can listen to the podcast on Spotify, Apple podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Okay.

the rise of AI in the workplace. So as I mentioned, there's Slack, there's teams, there's outlook, Excel, Microsoft is integrating copilot into their suite of products. I have personally tried out the teams products. So that's what I'll talk mostly about. But other than that, I haven't, and I went on my work computer. You can see it in the back. It's that silver laptop above the Mac.

Dalton Anderson (02:27.602)
I went on my work computer and try to see if I could access co-pilot within teams and I wasn't able to. So I'm assuming it's blocked by my administrator. If I had the chance, I would have tried it out, but it didn't seem that useful. just, it would help you draft an email. You would do forward slash and then it would pop up and then it could help you draft your email or improve your email. You can do the same thing elsewhere. Nothing special.

Dalton Anderson (02:57.048)
Excel. Haven't tried Excel. Don't have access to that. blocked by my, my administrator, but I think it'd be similar to Google Sheets. Google Sheets works fine. It works okay. Sometimes it really hits the mark. I'm like, wow, I don't know how I knew what I was talking about. And then other times I'm like, my goodness, this is so far off what I needed. It, I just got to reject this. I can't accept this.

submission.

Google's Gemini for Gmail is pretty good because it will read the email, summarize it for you, and then you can also ask it to write the email for you. But it would be cool to have the summary and here's the summary and like have options, like maybe the really simple, a really simple like mental map flow. And I know I'm getting distracted on like this Google stuff, but it's related to this.

A mental map flow is maybe someone sends you an RSVP like, can you RSVP to this Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas or whatever? And then it has a whole bunch of other information like, okay, like if you're going to RSVP, you've got to book this ticket. You have to send in a request to so-and-so. And so it's summarized by the AI agent, whoever you want to call it, the Google, Google Gemini. And then

from there, or co-pilot, from there, I would like a summary so I don't have to read the whole thing. And then have options of what I should do. Like option one, if I wanna go, have the one, send the email, I wanna go and send in all the other information and respond. And then also like put it on my to-do list or do some other thing where it keeps track of like, I need to do this stuff by this date and.

Dalton Anderson (04:56.548)
assigns things to me or, maybe in the future does it on my behalf, like calls, makes the, makes the appointment books, the place, whatever. I give it a budget. Like I hear you have a budget of $500 and I put it into the Google Gemini wallet. That's part of my Google account and the AI agent at that point, cause acting on it's on its own goes and does these tasks by, by itself.

And I say like, if any transactions over 250 bucks, send a request fee email for approval and I'll click the approve button if I want to approve or deny, or maybe there's a thing like human intervention, me where you left off and I can help you out. I would love a world like that. But then at a certain point is AI just responding to AI and are humans even drafting their own messages? I don't know. I'd like to automate my job and other people's jobs.

and work on higher value tasks. So I'm, I'm all right with it, but I do think it's funny at a certain point it's going to become like LinkedIn when people make those LinkedIn posts and it's like, congrats and grads and grads. I saw that social media video.

maybe three weeks ago about like, I don't know, social media or LinkedIn in reality, I think. And it's like three dudes at a coffee shop. I think there's a woman and like sitting not with them, but like just included in the conversation either. And there's some dude as a bar barista or someone as a barista. I don't know. But anyway, so they're talking at the round table and he's like, yeah, me and my wife just got divorced.

And then they're like, congrats, Jim, congrats, congrats. And then he's like, yeah, it's pretty rough. And then they're all like, congrats, congrats, congratulations. And then one of the guys makes a like announcement. He's like, I am now dating Jim's wife. And everyone's like, congrats, congrats, congrats. And the other guy's like, wait, what? And then it was just funny because

Dalton Anderson (07:08.272)
Everyone just spams that like Jim Congrats, Jim Congrats or Jim Congratulations. And a lot of the comments aren't human generated. They're just these text prompts suggestions. So I was on a tangent there, but anyway, so back to the original subject. That's where I want things to go. Where are we at currently? So teams, I have been using teams. I think I have a 60 day trial for teams premium is what they're calling it.

why they don't, why they have a separate subscription for teams. I have no idea. Why don't you just have one co-pilot.

copilot licensing fee for Microsoft suite of products. Like, okay, here's AI, you can use AI and Word, Excel, wherever, PowerPoint and Teams. But yeah, they have a separate license for Teams. Not sure, it doesn't make any sense to me.

Regardless, I have Teams Premium. It just feels weird saying that. And so Teams Premium, they're showing a lot of features online. I don't have access to those features. I don't know if it's blocked by my administrator, but I can talk about some of them that I can use. So they demoed in the website. There's, can watch a video and I'll have it linked. This time I actually have a link. Sometimes I say I'll link it and then I forget to link stuff.

but it's actually gonna be linked because I have the link in my show notes. So I could just drop it in.

Dalton Anderson (08:46.876)
They have a feature saying catch up is like the feature. And so the feature will allow you to, if you are, allow you to catch up on your items or action items when you go on PTO. So you'd be like, show me the last 14 days of messages, like summarize and like, what things do I need to work on? And it will tell you how well that works. I don't know. I can't use it. I will note that by default, it's a 30 day.

Backup history for, I don't know if you're getting these messages, I'm getting messages on WhatsApp. So I don't know if the sound is coming into you, but it's coming into my headphones, it's quite distracting. But we're live, so I can't cancel out on none. I can't mute the messages right now.

Anyways.

By default, 30 days of history is stored with copilot. So if you wanna recall like 60 days worth of data, you can't do that. You have to change your history. And if you wanna recall less by default, and you don't feel comfortable with them storing 30 days, then you can change it.

Dalton Anderson (10:01.106)
Okay. So teams call, I don't have this feature either. So not sure, but teams, apparently when you're on a call, just a normal call, you can have co-pilot, listen in basically as a teammate and be the note taker of the call. And apparently you can collaborate with your teammate and like, can you still like kind of talk, like not use natural language?

to communicate with the copilot live in the call together. And copilot after the call will send you notes and takeaways and all this other stuff. I have used copilot for meeting notes and that works if there's a transcript and there's a recording. So I am currently the main meetings notes distributor.

at the moment, because I have the AI trial, the premium or Teams premium. So basically Teams premium allows you to have your transcription. You record your meeting, you have a transcription, and then afterwards, normally, you would either take notes on your transcription before AI, and now in the world of AI.

you can copy that transcription and then paste it somewhere, have AI process it, paste it back into your word, look at it, format it however you want and then distribute it. Now with Teams Premium, it just makes the recap for you and you don't have to worry about it. The issue that I have is a couple things with it. One, it won't automatically send it to me. I feel like if I'm recording the call, I have Teams Premium,

it should automatically send me the notes recap of my meeting. Like here's all the action items, here was who was there, what they did, what they talked about, and the tasks.

Dalton Anderson (12:10.298)
It doesn't do that. You have to initiate that flow and then you have to distribute everything yourself, which is kind of annoying, but it's better than me having a copy and paste of transcription, put it into a different AI chat, get the output and then copy it back into Word. So it skips like two steps. really not that much savings and time, but I would like it to

automatically do that. If it automatically said, Hey, you had a recording of a meeting. I'm going to transcribe it. I'll give you the action items, a format the way you want it. And I would like to be able to custom format my notes. I don't like the default format from the AI agent. It sends my tasks at the bottom. feel like your task should be at the top and then you should have like key items. What were your key items? Like key, key topics.

overview of those key topics and then you should have like a more detailed section and then within it within that more detailed section have it separated by key topics. It doesn't do that. It kind of just rambles on and has a whole bunch of things like, so and so talked about this and then Jamie replied and Jamie said this about that. Like it gives it a certain point like too much detail and not an it has too much fluff.

not enough action I would feel. So I need a way and I would like a way to customize my notes. It's like, here's what I'm looking for. Here's how I want it formatted. This is what I want the output to look like every time. And it just does it automatically for me every time I have a meeting, which will be huge. It would save me so much time, so much time, because I'm in a product position. So I'm a product manager at an insurance company, which is a similar functionality at

other companies as a product manager, you are intertwined with many departments and you need to either initiate things like within your department or you need to correspond with other departments, initiate things on your behalf for the product to improve it. And so you have many stakeholders that you're constantly interacting with to improve the product. That could be from underwriting actuarial,

Dalton Anderson (14:35.814)
the data analytics group, the database group, the developers. Like there could be like nine different, nine different departments you're constantly interacting with and you need to keep track of everything. Like who's doing what because a lot of their projects are interconnected, but they're not necessarily connected with a project manager sometimes. I mean, if it's a smaller project, it's not going to have its own solo project manager.

So the product manager kind of has to keep track of everything and make sure that, this is, this is how it's supposed to be working. This is what I, this is the expectation, blah, blah, blah. So if you're in a product position like that and you're coordinating all these things or kicking off things, you're in quite a few meetings. So if I had this automatically kick off for me, that'd be great. And then another feature I think would be great in teams and for

this AI is when I make a meeting, I would like to assign that team meeting to a project. So if I had a project, Hmm. A project about

I don't know, my, my Nana's home renovation. And so I had to meet with the electrical group to, to install the new high hats. And I had to meet with the painting group to do the drywall after the electrical people come in, cause they're not going to finish the drywall and they have to paint the walls. And so I want to have a meeting with the electrical team. Okay, Hey, you've got to come in on this day. If you miss this day, the delays, the

drywall people and they're not able to come to the house for another three weeks. So you need to be within this window. You need to go all your work done. What supplies do you need? Generate the take take away, but I want to assign it to a project and I want a project to have roles. So this company call it electrical electrical LLC has two people, Jim and Jared, Jim and Jared. Jim is the owner.

Dalton Anderson (16:43.186)
Jared is the electrical guy coming to the house. I would like their role in the project. Like Jim is gonna be overseeing the scheduling and what's going on and purchasing the supplies. Jared is gonna be coming to the house and doing the work and he thinks it's gonna take this amount of time, blah, blah, blah. The scope of work, confirming that. And then the drywall and painting company, Jessica and Tom, Jessica and Tom.

And just because the owner, Tom, is the painter and drywaller.

Same thing, I want to have the roles, the project, function, and then who's involved in the project and the different stakeholders. So then when this AI summarizes my meeting, it has the context of the other meeting in the project. So within that meeting, it understands, hey, I had previously had a meeting about XYZ with the same stakeholders on the same project. What's the project's progress? What's the updates?

Are we getting stuff done at the rate that we need to be getting stuff done? Are we doing what we need to be doing? Did we execute on our action items from the last meeting? All of those things should be integrated into teams. Teams is owned by a company with a market cap of over a trillion dollars. And it's one of the most popular productivity apps in the workplace. And I think it's so bad. So bad.

And that one feature is not that complicated. Like making a project and within a project having meetings.

Dalton Anderson (18:30.768)
Yeah, it's simple. I don't think it's that complicated. And then storing the transcription of that project and the recording and having it tied to a project. That's not that hard. Like an architectural standpoint or like developer standpoint, like it's straightforward considering the other stuff that these companies work on. I like that's not that difficult. But it would improve the app so much. Like, so what if you...

when you're managing a project or everyone's on this project, everyone can click in and look at the transcript. Everyone can click in and look at all the notes from each different in each different meeting all in one place.

It'd be huge. Huge. would love that. Love that. Last thing I would say about this copilot piece.

is my disappointment with Microsoft and Apple. So Microsoft and Apple have kind of been the people lagging in this AI adoption space. Microsoft most notably tried to fully acquire OpenAI when there was all that stuff going on, you know, with the board and all the other weird stuff with Sam.

Dalton Anderson (19:53.51)
that didn't go through, but they did get a stake in OpenAI and their partner in Copilot is like a wrapper of OpenAI's model.

Dalton Anderson (20:08.986)
My issue with Apple and Microsoft is, Microsoft is competing with Google and somewhat Slack and Salesforce because Salesforce owns Slack. I don't know how long Slack has had their AI features, but the AI features that they launched are substantially better than the ones that Microsoft has currently in Teams or any of their apps. Google has had

Jim and I integrated with their suite of products since December, 2023. So we're almost at a full year here in a couple of weeks. You know, what, after this month, three weeks, we're almost at a full year of being fully integrated. I was on the beta version of what Google has rolled out to the public.

I've been using it for years, like literally years. And it's crazy that, that like, hey, like we have Teams premium and the only features that they're talking about is like, recall the highlighted tasks and write notes for your call and.

Dalton Anderson (21:30.01)
record your meetings and write up notes.

This is not good enough, not good enough. AI transforming the gaming industry. And I know a lot of people don't like EA, but EA is pretty big. So I hope that they keep improving and they listen to their gamers and investors and keep improving their product and move to maybe a more sustainable product releases or more sustainable.

game releases, I would say, because their product at certain points is, is laxadaisical and not polished. A good example of that would be battlefield 2042, which was bug-ridden and just horrible, horrible. And it burned a lot of people. And that, that and a couple other games, not necessarily built by AI, not AI, I almost said AI. GA, GA,

GA, I said GA, I meant to EA. I'm all over the place.

I think I said GA because general intelligence, but EA, EA, EA burned a lot of people and some other games with pre-orders and a lot of folks just don't priority games anymore because of battlefield 2042 and some other triple A games from large publishers that just, they just weren't ready for release. Like not even close. Like they might've been like in alpha. Like they're not even in beta.

Dalton Anderson (23:08.944)
There were just so many bugs and issues going on. It was embarrassing for the users because they paid, you know, 80 bucks or whatever the preorder amount was for this, all this content. And they felt like they got scammed because the game wasn't what they said it was going to be and were that what they showed. So there's a lot of refunds, but you know, after you play, I mean, certain, certain

platforms have different refund ability, refund eligibility, I would say, like after you place certain amount of time, you can't refund it. think some places might be five hours, some places might be three, but yeah, I mean, it just wasn't good enough. Anyways, so I'm acknowledging that people don't like EA, but EA does have some pretty cool announcements. So they're calling it Imagine to Creation. It was a text to

game generation with like, and it wasn't like a commercially ready, but it allowed users to have a text prompt and create a game from it, like a fully functional game, which is pretty cool. I think so it creates the tools, the maps, the gameplay rules, everything for you. So it creates a full game from scratch with text to prompt. So I think that's pretty cool because you to think about

EA has such a large library of games with all the logic, all the coding and the character creations and the map. All of those assets are within EA. So they're trained in AI to learn how to create games, which I think is really cool. Asset discovery is another feature that they talked about. So asset discovery will help developers

I don't know if you call them developers. Artists, game artists, I think the game artists make the assets.

Dalton Anderson (25:13.666)
the game artists will use AI to create assets for games, which I think is pretty cool and great because people might be like, well, you know, that's that removes all the love from the game and it, it, it's just soulless and it's just like for the money making machine or whatever, whatever brand they're going on. I would say that

this AI or AI asset creation, it allows people to create these assets and then work on them more important things like the main characters and all of the other stuff to where the actual meat of the game is very polished, hopefully more polished than you've ever seen before. And then after that point, you could have

you could sprinkle in some AI generation assets and some other stuff to give additional substance to the game to fill it in. That's, that would be my approach. And I think that would be the best approach for the publisher. Who knows? I don't know what they're going to do. I have no control over EA, but EA doesn't have any control over you. So if you don't like what they're doing, you don't have to purchase their games either.

They also said that they expect around 60 % of their games to be, or 60 % of their code to be AI generated at a certain point in the future. They didn't give a timeline, but that's their goal. So I think that's pretty cool.

So next topic, and I don't want to spend too much time on this, but the cost of innovation with AI and usage, increased usage from the general public or large companies training their next AI model or large companies not training their next AI model, but using it at a scale.

Dalton Anderson (27:31.054)
At scale. Interbri scale, I would say. We need more energy. The stuff isn't free. It might be free for you, but it costs it costs a lot of energy. It's becoming very energy efficient, but still the more powerful the model is, the more energy it requires, the more complex tasks that it's going to start doing because it's got more capabilities, the more energy that task is going

require and so on and so on. So even though it's becoming more efficient, like way more efficient, like I think over the fast, I mean the past five or 10 years, it's improvement is in the thousands of percent of of where they started to now.

but you got to think about it is okay, it's becoming more complex. The tasks are becoming more complex. It's becoming more energy efficient, but just because becoming more energy efficient doesn't mean it's using less energy because now it's more energy efficient with the same resources they can do more, train more, and then push the limits even further. And that's kind of what we're doing here. And so I've never been studying a technology that's improved at such a rate that AI has.

in the last two years or so. It's mind boggling at the rate of improvement and had, or, you know, tip my hat to all these talented people. The companies get the credit, but really it's, it is the talent of the individuals working at those companies. And it's definitely not a skill issue. That was more of a developer meme. Like Google recently got in.

And I wouldn't say in trouble, but a Google developer was AI, head of AI research at Google. Someone was complaining about their AI keys, API keys for AI. And then the guy replied back, like somebody said, this is taking too long. Blah, blah. Like Google needs to make this process simpler, like more, you know, more straightforward. And then the guy replied in

Dalton Anderson (29:48.43)
I will note that that's fair feedback because

Google has been known to have issues with their API keys where it's just overly complicated. There's three different sets of documentation. There's all sorts of stuff going on, so it's overly complex. Whereas other, say example, like OpenAI is like one click and you get your keys and you start rocking. But anyways, so the guy replied back, skill issue. And people got pissed. But I thought it was hilarious, because it was more of a joke.

It's just like ban, fun banter. anyways, that's what I was talking about when I said skill issue, like not a skill issue.

Dalton Anderson (30:29.618)
But with this, with this increase of, of adoption, consumption, complexity becomes energy demand. So energy is becoming potentially going to be an issue in the future with these AI companies that have enough energy to train their models and to do their workflows. So Google October, 24, so pretty recent is in a deal with a startup called Creos.

to buy cryos, chaos, chaos, chaos power to build small nuclear power plants and it's gonna produce 500 megawatts and it is going to be completed 2030. So some time from now, but it takes a while to make, I feel like that's pretty quick for nuclear power plants.

Microsoft is helping restart the dormant three mile Island and hoping to kick that off by 2028 and it will provide 835 megawatts of power for its data centers.

Amazon has signed three agreements to support nuclear energy development and will be moving forward with a nuclear power plant that's already in existence in Pennsylvania. And just, just for people that aren't familiar with how much like 500 megawatts is 500 megawatts can power 86,500 homes or 500

megawatts could power an electric car 2 million miles, is 80 times around the world. Pretty cool.

Dalton Anderson (32:27.794)
So a couple more segments left and I'll kind of rip through this one. The Warner Bros segment. So Warner Bros partnered with Google as I spoke with earlier with Vertex AI, which is like their AI platform. They should just call it like Google's A.I. studio. They've got two different names. Like there's Gemini's studio AI and then there's Vertex, whatever. So they partnered with them to generate captions for their

Max streaming platform.

And there are max. Is it called Max? Pretty sure it's called Max, like the purple emblem. I don't watch as much TV as potentially I should, but the max streaming platform, I'm pretty sure that's called. But anyways, Max, they have people who write out those captions, which I had no idea that there were people generating those. I thought that AI would do that or they had something going on. Maybe they developed something in house, but apparently there's a whole team of people.

that in a 30 minute episode, it would take them four hours or so to create all the captions for, and I don't know how, maybe they do auto translation.

I don't know, if you're watching on video, I'm like fiddling around my nose, it's kind of itchy for some reason. they have a, anyways, the employee takes four hours to generate the captions.

Dalton Anderson (33:54.57)
It is a 50 % reduction in caption costs and it's an 80 % faster than manual captioning. So they're able to work 80 % faster and we're just cost 50%.

So what does that mean for you? Well, you get to watch more shows, duh. So thank AI for that. Thank AI.

Slack, as I mentioned earlier, Slack joins the AI race. release Slack AI, which comes with Einstein. It's like a AI assistant that's integrated with other Salesforce apps like Salesforce or

Dalton Anderson (34:38.162)
Well, they're not integrated only Salesforce apps, but they're integrated with Salesforce, integrated with Adobe. So could do Adobe Photoshop to make some marketing materials on the fly or whatever you want to do. One of the big things was that Slack is built by channels really. like each Slack channel is kind of a, like you might have a team Slack channel, but a lot of times if you have a project, you'll have your own Slack channel, which is how Slack works. And you can get,

actual details like you can ask Einstein to like summarize the action items from these three Slack channels or can you monitor these Slack channels for me, turn off my notifications and like reply back with some of the stuff that I need to work on, whatever.

Dalton Anderson (35:28.75)
All this stuff that I was talking about that teams needs to do, Slack is doing, except you can't, you can't assign roles. So I would like Slack to be able to assign roles of like, okay, like, Dalton is for this project is responsible for these tasks. And these are example tasks that Dalton would do and John Doe would do X, Y, Z. and so then I can get all the tasks divvied up for me.

I think that'd be really cool. I like that they're summarizing channels and threads to catch you up on everything and take notes while you're in a call for yourself. You can schedule daily recaps of all your threads so you don't have to monitor threads or channels anymore. And then you can schedule things. So cool, so cool. I love it. They also mentioned that 33 % of your day is spent tracking down information.

Hopefully these AI apps when they get fully integrated and mature and Slack teams, wherever outlook, what notion, notion mail and Gmail. Hopefully no matter the end result, everyone improves and pushes each other. And we get a mature AI feature suite for these apps that for some reason are

required for our day to day life in the workplace, but are normally a drag on productivity and deep focus. So we could spend more time focusing on the important things and worrying less about the minutia.

Dalton Anderson (37:13.884)
So yeah, once again, recapping, GoPilot is coming to Microsoft Office products. Slack is adding AI powered features. EA is using AI to create games and to improve their developer workflow. Warner Bros. Discovery is using AI for captioning and programming. HubSpot, which I didn't talk about it.

in this episode, what HubSpot is acquiring MindStream, which is a newsletter for people who like to read AI with about 150,000 subscribers. And with all these AI features coming out, the complexity and the usage going up.

there is gonna be an energy demand. These large companies are planning to have their nuclear power plants up by at least 2030. And last thing, call to action to everyone who has tried out these different features, especially the ones in Co-Pilot and Slack. I don't have access to Slack, so I just watched a whole bunch of videos online to talk about this topic.

But I would love to hear from someone in the comments who has used Slack and these AI features and how much time it's really saved them. They're talking about it saves 90 hour, not 90 hours, 96 minutes or 98 minutes on their website. They said per week, but it doesn't really make that much sense if you're spending 33 % of your day, if you're spending 33 % of your day on this tracking of information.

and you're only saving 96 minutes a week. The math is not mathing, but I'll just keep rolling with it. It is what it is. Maybe they're being extra conservative, but leave a comment please about what you think about these AI features in Slack and also if you have the admin privileges or your administrator allows for.

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co-pilot to integrate with Outlook and other Google, not Google, other Microsoft suite products. Please let me know what you think about them. I'm curious about Outlook really more than any of the others because Outlook would save the most time potentially. But of course, thank you tuning into VentureStep. I'll see you next week. Staying consistent like I promised.

And I recently wrote some articles. We published them on X and on LinkedIn. Those posts I thought were intriguing because about a year ago, I committed to doing one podcast or one to two podcasts or two podcasts or one podcast a month, at least 10 minutes long. And here I am almost a year later doing a podcast a week and they're all over 10 minutes.

And I'm beating expectations from for myself. And yeah, I just thought it was great. So I figured I'd share that. And the reason I'm sharing that is if you have something that you want to pursue, just commit to it and change your schedule, change your change your priorities and make it happen. All right. Well, that's it for today. And of course, wherever you are in this world. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good morning.

Have a great day. Thank you for tuning in and I hope that you tune in next week. Goodbye.

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Hmm.

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Okay.

Dalton Anderson (41:29.714)
That's so weird.

Dalton Anderson (41:44.242)
Stay in studio. Why isn't it me cancel?

What the heck?

Dalton Anderson (41:57.038)
It's like not not recording anymore. I can't not not record. my goodness. This never happened leave studio