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

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. "Let's assume, fast-forward five or six years, that AI is ready," Yuan said. "AI probably can help for maybe 90% of the work, but in terms of real-time interaction, today, you and I are talking online. So, I can send my digital version, you can send your digital version."