In the not-so-distant future, you won’t attend Zoom meetings–your digital clone will. Or at least, that’s the dream of Zoom’s CEO Eric Yuan, who recently outlined his vision of a world where AI clones attend your meetings while you focus on “real work.”

“Think about it: What if AI could free up a whole day every week?” he said during his presentation at Zoom’s annual Zoomtopia conference yesterday, comparing the rise of AI to the invention of the assembly line. “(Zoom AI) could attend meetings or even assist in contract negotiations. All of us would customize our digital assistant, which again, over time, could evolve into this concept of a digital tool.”

To get there, Zoom is first taking baby robot steps.

Yesterday, it described how the company is using AI to “revolutionize” the way we work.

“This is more than an evolution; it’s a complete overhaul of how we get things done in the digital age,” Yuan said.

To that end, the company introduced AI Companion 2.0, which is supposed to evolve into user-customizable avatars next year. These new digital personas will be fully animated and skinned based on your photo; they will be able to nod, gesture, and lip-sync to whatever users provide as script or prompt.

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Author: Jose Antonio Lanz