Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on ITProPortal and has been republished with permission. The workplace of the future is going to be made up of hyper-connected workers, and AI will play its part in ensuring this outcome. Soon, digital assistants, voice-controlled devices, and huddle rooms will be commonplace in the office. For businesses, this rise in AI assistance will greatly improve workplace collaboration and free up valuable time for employees to undertake more productive activities. Today's tech-savvy employees are well-versed in tech such as live video and instant messenger to connect and collaborate from anywhere in the world. The introduction of AI will act as an extension to this technology.

A few months ago, BlueJeans announced support for Eva--the in-meeting artificial intelligence (AI) "bot" that takes notes, creates action items, and helps identify key moments for later follow up. Since we first announced support for Voicera, the creators of Eva, hundreds of you have taken advantage of its AI capabilities and experienced better meetings with Eva's help. Today, we're excited to announce that Eva has become even more advanced and now provides fully searchable, complete in-meeting transcription with BlueJeans Meetings. "We wanted to offer BlueJeans meeting customers the first chance to have full meeting transcriptions," said Omar Tawakol, CEO of Voicera. "This is a service we now offer through Voicera, but it works best with partners who provide higher quality audio streams. The audio that comes from BlueJeans with Dolby Voice is delivered in a crisp 16k format which lends itself very well to transcription. In addition to the transcripts, Eva can create a highlight reel that is error corrected and delivered with much higher accuracy."

Computers may one day be able to reason exactly as humans do, but will they ever be as dumb? I had always thought that was impossible. The other day, I was in Penn Station on my way home from work. A team of scientists had set up a table with a laptop running the latest pattern-recognition software, and they were asking passersby to suggest questions for the computer. With twenty minutes on my hands, I asked it to find the best place for me to sit while waiting for my train.