This new AI service wants to make your video call a little bit easier

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By now, anyone with an office job is likely familiar with the experience of joining a video meeting only to wonder, a few minutes into it, if anyone on the call is taking notes. The popular AI transcription app Otter is launching a new service called OtterPilot that aspires to fill that role -- it will automatically take notes, take key screengrabs, and write up a summary of your meeting. 

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Otter offers a range of plans, starting with its free Basic plan that comes with limits of 300 monthly transcription minutes and 30 minutes of transcription per conversation. It also offers Pro, Business and, Enterprise plans. More than one billion meetings have now been transcribed with Otter, the company said this week. 

In a statement, co-founder and CEO Sam Liang said he's "inspired by advancements in Tesla's Autopilot system" and that his company has similarly "seen the huge improvements in Otter's AI capabilities."

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