The future is … sending AI avatars to meetings for us, says Zoom boss

Photo caption: Eric Yuan, the founder and chief executive of Zoom, said users could create their own large language models which would help the technology to create personalized responses. Photo credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images. Article by Alex Hern. The Guardian – June 5, 2024. For further information: The Verge.

Zoom users in the not-too-distant future could send AI avatars to attend meetings in their absence, the company’s chief executive has suggested, delegating the drudge-work of corporate life to a system trained on their own content. Such a system would be “five or six years” away, Eric Yuan told The Verge magazine, but he added that the company was working on nearer-term technologies that could bring it closer to reality. […]

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