"Zoom's vision of filling meetings with AI clones has nearly arrived. On Wednesday, the video conferencing app announced that you'll soon be able to create a "photorealistic" avatar of yourself in case you aren't "camera-ready." That means your AI avatar can appear polished if you've just crawled out of bed. Zoom plans on launching this feature to Workplace users in December, allowing you to generate an AI lookalike based on a photo of yourself that you upload or capture directly in the app."
"While Zoom started letting users deliver prerecorded messages with an AI avatar last year, this takes things further by allowing you to pose as an AI clone in meetings. During an interview on Decoder in June 2024, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan hinted at a future where everyone has a 'digital twin,' or an AI agent that uses your likeness to perform tasks and make decisions on your behalf, like attending meetings and automatically answering emails."
"Zoom plans on rolling out some safeguards with its photorealistic avatars feature, which means you shouldn't be able to attend your meetings as Keanu Reeves. Smita Hashim, Zoom's chief product officer, tells The Verge that the platform will use "live camera authentication" to ensure that you're the person in the image you've uploaded. Zoom will also include "in-meeting tile notices" that indicate you're using an AI avatar. "This feature remains in development, and specific enrollment and authentication processes may change before general availability," Hashim said."
Zoom will let Workplace users generate photorealistic AI avatars in December by uploading or capturing a photo. Users can dress avatars in professional outfits and the avatar will track real-life movements during meetings. The feature extends prior prerecorded AI avatar messages to live meetings, enabling users to pose as AI clones. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan described a future of "digital twins" that perform tasks and answer emails on a user's behalf. Zoom will implement live camera authentication and in-meeting tile notices to indicate avatar use. Enrollment and authentication processes may change before general availability. Zoom is also adding real-time voice translation and other platform updates.
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