- Microsoft Teams reveals more about new Facilitator AI tool
- The presenter will monitor your Teams meetings and act as manager and assistant
- This may help fill knowledge gaps, but raises concerns about privacy.
Microsoft Teams is set to roll out Facilitator, a new AI-powered tool that will look to help you better manage your calls and fill any potential knowledge gaps that arise during a meeting.
However, to do this, the tool will need to be enabled to listen and watch all your meetings, so it knows when to jump in and intervene.
This has already led some observers to worry about the tool’s privacy and security limitations, but Microsoft says the tool will be disabled by default, meaning users will have to actively enable it.
Bots in teams
“We’re introducing a new Microsoft Teams Facilitator feature that proactively detects and resolves knowledge gaps in meetings,” says an update on the company’s admin portal.
“The facilitator can identify when participants ask questions or express uncertainty and retrieve and share relevant responses using web search in the meeting chat.”
The company outlined a host of possible use cases where Facilitator can be useful, such as monitoring an agenda in a meeting invitation to help everyone stay on track, by displaying the information in a sidebar.
The facilitator can also start a timer to ensure everyone stays focused on key points on an agenda, which can be extended, paused or reset as needed. Anyone joining the call late can ask the tool for a quick summary of what has already been discussed and quickly search for relevant information.
It can also create a document based on a particular topic covered on a call, helping you start a new project or brainstorm ideas, while helping you manage assigned action items by capturing the details in the Notes app.
For those on the go, Facilitator can also instantly capture, transcribe and organize in-person meeting notes, with speaker distinction and actionable recaps, right from your mobile device.
Once the call ends, the facilitator can also view any content generated during the meeting, accessible in a separate summary menu and shared among participants.
Facilitator is now in public preview for select customers. The company added that a Microsoft 365 Copilot license will be required to add Facilitator to a meeting or activate it during a meeting. However, any meeting participant (excluding external participants) can see all real-time updates in Chat and Notes.
Via WindowsLatest
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