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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

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

Eric Yuan gesturing while sitting on a white chair
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 personalised responses. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

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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