What if AI could attend your meetings? Zoom’s CEO Eric Yuan seems to be ready for a world where your AI clone will handle your busy work. News comes in that he hates ‘checking mails’ and would be happy if AI could do so!
In an interview with The Verge released on Monday, Yuan said that he hates his calendar, reading emails every morning, and finds a five-day workweek filled with meetings “boring.”
AI clone attending meetings!
From what it is understood, AI has the potential to understand the entire calendar, understand the context. In case there is a meeting, AI will be able to already schedule a meeting. He focused on the ‘digital twins’ where you can get an exact ‘robotic copy’ of yourself. This would make your tedious work more easy and execute tasks faster than humans.
If this is the case then “ AI will tell me, ‘Eric, you have five meetings scheduled today. You do not need to join four of the five. You only need to join one. You can send a digital version of yourself.’ For the one meeting I join, after the meeting is over, I can get all the summary and send it to the people who couldn’t make it. I can make a better decision. Again, I can leverage the AI as my assistant and give me all kinds of input, just more than myself. That’s the vision,” Yuan explained.
Yuan explains that delegating work to your AI clone would allow people to have more time for in-person interactions — in and outside of work.
The AI era ahead!
The CEO expects that Zoom’s digital twin technology would likely first start as a voice assistant, but could eventually become more immersive, making a virtual version which is quite similar to the Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3.
He also aims to create a 3D version of users that can mimic you to the point where “you can’t know if it’s a real person or just a 3D version.”
It seems like he also suggested that different ‘digital twins ‘ could be created for specific tasks. However, he is still not convinced about this theoretical proposal. Yuan said the technology isn’t ready yet. First, the underlying AI models, or LLMs, aren’t advanced enough.
“Customised AI clones would require a customised LLM that’s based on all the data and context around each individual person,” Yuan explains. However, he expects that someday AI technology will be capable of this in the next few years.
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