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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 8, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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I've never used it for anything personal, so I've never made accounts like described above. I do work for a large corporate tech company though who has its own AI offerings. I use this one for work a modest amount and its been helpful but not game changing. I review a number of very large speadsheets on a regular basis. 95%+ of the data in these sheets doesn't really concern my immediate duties. AI has been great in digesting these and presenting me with just the information I need to see. Its also good at reading my many, many emails and flagging ones where people are asking me to do something specific, or touch on a number of topics I've flagged at important. Its also really good at reviewing the recordings of long meetings, converting them into text transcripts, and extracting the valuable information (if there is any), finally turning the meeting into the email it should have always been.

Its also good at reading my many, many emails and flagging ones where people are asking me to do something specific, or touch on a number of topics I've flagged at important.

Do you use a specific service for this, or something custom?

Its our in-house AI tool. I understand that microsoft has build something similar into Outlook, but our IT sec teams have blocked it on our work accounts.

Oh, neat. Your people don’t waste any time.