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Zoom CEO Wants an AI Avatar to Do Your Job While You’re at the Beach


The CEO of Zoom says an AI clone will one day take your video calls, send emails, and do nearly every part of your job that happens on a computer.

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told The Verge that AI avatars will one day do your job on your behalf. According to Yuan, the avatar will speak in your Zoom meetings for you, answer emails, and take phone calls, supposedly freeing you up for the rest of your life. Yuan noted this is a distant vision of the future, but his comments come at a time of deep skepticism of AI technology and what it can really do.

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