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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-future-is-sending-ai-avatars-to-meetings-for-us-says-zoom-boss/
- Published: 2024-06-11T09:45:46-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com