If you’ve been keeping up with the latest tech trends, you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT. Since late fall 2022, the tool has taken the world by storm. ChatGPT had more than 100 million users within the first two months of launch and has had more than 13 million daily visitors since January 2023. 

You may be wondering how tools like ChatGPT can improve business efficiencies. While experts are still determining the tool’s long-term effects, there are a few key ways companies can use AI to enhance the employee and customer experience.

Read on to learn about ChatGPT, see the pros and cons of using AI for your meeting minutes, and discover why Fellow is a better alternative than AI for your meeting minutes and action items. 

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI. The tool features a powerful natural language processor famous for its ability to generate human-like responses. ChatGPT has a variety of applications but is commonly used for answering questions and completing tasks like writing code, emails, and essays. 

While the tool can quickly generate high-quality responses to many questions and requests, it isn’t yet considered a reliable search engine as it may make errors and deliver inaccurate information to users. Additionally, some experts have said that the tool’s output isn’t yet a trustworthy source for business or academic research.  

AI meeting minutes are notes taken during a meeting that rely on AI or natural language processing tools such as ChatGPT. 

To create AI meeting minutes, transcripts from meeting tools like Zoom or Microsoft Teams are downloaded after a virtual meeting ends and placed in the AI tool. The user then asks the tool to generate a summary of the transcript that outlines key messages, action items, and other important takeaways from the meeting. With the right prompts, AI can extract important information and insights that you and your team can use to guide business decisions. 

Create official records of the discussions and action items generated during meetings and save time with Fellow’s meeting minutes templates. Fellow is the meeting minutes software your team will love.

Once your meeting ends, access meeting transcripts from Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet. If you aren’t using virtual meeting software with automated transcription, you’ll have to transcribe meeting videos into text scripts manually. Once the transcription is prepped, copy and paste your text scripts into ChatGPT. Above the text script, tell the AI what you want it to do. In this case, you’ll want to write something like: “Summarize the below meeting transcription into meeting minutes and outline a list of key takeaways and action items.” Now you can sit back and relax as your meeting minutes generate. 

Now that you know all about ChatGPT and how to use it, let’s talk about a better alternative for taking meeting minutes: Fellow. With our tool, you and your team can create an official record of discussions and action items that are free from mistakes, secure, collaborative, and have plenty of the necessary context needed to make decisions. Everyone can contribute their notes to the meeting agenda before, during, and after each meeting, too!

Meeting minutes are linked to calendar events in Fellow, so you’ll always have an easy time accessing previous minutes. Our pre-built meeting minutes template will help you stay organized so you can spend less time preparing and more time making decisions as a team. 

With Fellow, you can also lock your notes to prevent edits so you have an accurate record of what was discussed and decided during each meeting. Our Locked Notes feature also helps keep sensitive information private from everyone who wasn’t in attendance. 

Spend less time searching for your meeting agenda and more time running an effective meeting. With Fellow’s browser extensions, you can access your meeting notes directly in your meeting tool of choice and document action items without ever having to leave your call. 

Share meeting notes with attendees after the meeting to keep everyone on the same page. Meeting participants can access past meeting minutes through their calendar events and give meeting feedback at the end of each call, too!

Meeting minutes provide an important record of what was discussed and decided during a meeting. That said, your meeting minutes should always be detailed, accurate, and collaborative. 

The fastest option isn’t always the best option. While ChatGPT can give you meeting minutes quickly and cost-effectively, alternatives like Fellow will help you make better decisions in the long run. Don’t believe us? Begin hosting meaningful one-on-ones, recording important decisions, and building collaborative agendas with Fellow today.