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No batteries required
Jan. 25th, 2024 09:57 pmFor Christmas, Grandson #2 got presents that require batteries, so I was determined to get birthday presents that don't. We have a tunnel for him to crawl through, a mat that you 'paint' on with water (so no cleaning up!), a book and jigsaw puzzle set, and those plastic blocks that are the cheap version of Duplo. Son has got him some farm animals and sea creatures. Now I just need to wrap everything.
ChatGPT came up trumps, today. The meeting was scheduled for an hour but lasted about 45 minutes. The first 30 minutes were taken up with a discussion about inputting fee data, I kid you not! I put the transcript for that part of the meeting into ChatGPT and asked it to summarise. It didn't do a perfect job because it listed the points as they were made rather, which led to a lot of repetition - yes, there was repetition in the conversation but for the minutes I only need to list each point once - but it did make it easier to sort out the important points. And I didn't bother giving it the rest of the meeting because that was really easy to type up.
A couple of observations. Firstly, when you listen to someone talk, it makes perfect sense. When you READ a transcript it's like trying to make sense of a foreign language. It's all 'umms', 'yeah, yeah, but', 'I, I think, I think', with broken sentences and poor grammar. I certainly couldn't write minutes myself from a transcript. Our brains are really amazing things, to make sense of all that nonsense!
The second thing is that, on the whole, my notes usually do capture the important points. I still make notes because it helps me to make sense of the meeting and, as I found yesterday, ChatGPT isn't fool proof!
Tonight we got the new telly on its new stand and brought the old one, plus a couple of old consoles, upstairs. Tomorrow, I'll swap the telly stand I have in here with the one I brought up tonight. I think I could fit the PS5, 4 AND 3 on it, as well as the Tivo box. The only thing is, I only want to play on the 5. Plus changing consoles means changing the wires. We'll add them to the 'for sale' pile, I think, because they all work.
I also want to finish off the shopping list and get a chicken for a roast dinner on Sunday. I don't feel the husband has had a decent meal since Christmas.
It occurred to me that new baby is going to be a dragon, like their mother. That's going to be interesting...
And that was my Thursday.
ChatGPT came up trumps, today. The meeting was scheduled for an hour but lasted about 45 minutes. The first 30 minutes were taken up with a discussion about inputting fee data, I kid you not! I put the transcript for that part of the meeting into ChatGPT and asked it to summarise. It didn't do a perfect job because it listed the points as they were made rather, which led to a lot of repetition - yes, there was repetition in the conversation but for the minutes I only need to list each point once - but it did make it easier to sort out the important points. And I didn't bother giving it the rest of the meeting because that was really easy to type up.
A couple of observations. Firstly, when you listen to someone talk, it makes perfect sense. When you READ a transcript it's like trying to make sense of a foreign language. It's all 'umms', 'yeah, yeah, but', 'I, I think, I think', with broken sentences and poor grammar. I certainly couldn't write minutes myself from a transcript. Our brains are really amazing things, to make sense of all that nonsense!
The second thing is that, on the whole, my notes usually do capture the important points. I still make notes because it helps me to make sense of the meeting and, as I found yesterday, ChatGPT isn't fool proof!
Tonight we got the new telly on its new stand and brought the old one, plus a couple of old consoles, upstairs. Tomorrow, I'll swap the telly stand I have in here with the one I brought up tonight. I think I could fit the PS5, 4 AND 3 on it, as well as the Tivo box. The only thing is, I only want to play on the 5. Plus changing consoles means changing the wires. We'll add them to the 'for sale' pile, I think, because they all work.
I also want to finish off the shopping list and get a chicken for a roast dinner on Sunday. I don't feel the husband has had a decent meal since Christmas.
It occurred to me that new baby is going to be a dragon, like their mother. That's going to be interesting...
And that was my Thursday.
