Zoom CEO Wants an AI Avatar to Do Your Job While You’re at the Beach
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.
My job is pushing people in wheelchairs at the airport. Your move Zoom.
Thank you. As a child I always thought this was such an important job. It’s a shame the highest paid humans are useless.
It IS an important job! Without us, the disabled, the elderly, and the lazy enough to become 600lbs couldn't traverse large airports, and fly to various cities. We do a lot of hard backbreaking work for often very little money.
So the next time you fly with grandma, slip your wheelchair assistant a $20 bill tip. Unless they were spectacularly awful at their jobs, and tossed your grandma down a flight of stairs....
That would be awful!!!! Still though.....maybe like $5?
Easy; just shove a massive LiDAR scanner underneath, a few rechargeable 12 volt batteries, an acceptably advanced image processing system- it's basically a self driving golf cart that would probably cost more then your yearly salary and not work as well but common sense doesn't really mean anything to management so it'll happen either way!
What he understands as "work" is easily replaceable with an AI. Good to know.
He's the one who ordered all the zoom employees to RTO right? Are we supposed to expect him to let people go to the beach?
And what… my work will still pay me???
I don’t think so.
We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.
I enjoy what I do, for the most part, and take pride in my work.
You guys don't have paid vacation or something?
Sure, but not endlessly.
They want this, until Zoom employees start using it.
The Zoom RTO was just hilarious.
I also want this. But Zoom is a corporation, so it must be some sort of trick.
"and all your income from these calls will go to zoom"
As an employee you can enroll in our voluntary PTO insurance coverage benefit to only pay 40% of your salary to zoom while on PTO, you get to keep 60%!
The joke is you AI yourself out of a job. And Zoom collects a small portion of what you would have been paid. Along with thousands of other workers.
Ah yes, because in our economic system, people with no job can just relax at the beach all day.
He clearly doesn’t understand how office politics works. If I’m taking a Zoom call at the beach, I want my camera on so I can flex on everyone in the office or home in their pajamas. I hope the CEO joins the call and sees me in my shades so I can get promoted to VP of Staying Light and Keeping it Tight.
If jobs consisted of only attending video calls and wiring emails, the world would be a very different place.
I honestly don’t know if this would be like letting toddlers run a daycare or if it would be paradise.
Honestly, I have trouble imagining such a world. Hmmm... The more I think about it, the more it just kinda sounds like high school... Sends shivers down my spine.
Well we're getting there in tech...
As a developer I have to say OH hell nah. If I had to compare the issue to something more layman, I'd compare it to tesla's self driving. If I have to watch it the entire time it does its thing because there's an almost certain chance it'll mess something up CATASTROPHICALLY due to the fact that it literally lacks the ability to understand, than I might as well just do it my self. It rarely saves time and only in dumb cases, that should have been automated in other ways a long time ago.
Not saying it's not a very handy tool occasionally, just that it can't come up with solutions to problems on its own, which is like 75% of my work. And it can't do this due to a fundamental limitation in how learning models work, no amount of training will fix this.
So, end capitalism and build a fully automated post-scarcity utopia where machines do all the work and humans spend our lives doing the things we really want to do?
Sounds good bro, let's do it.
Something tells me this offer applies to ruling class only
This can’t turn out badly.
I’m going to name my avatar Skynet.
The bigger issue is that if your can have your AI assistant do your job while you're in vacation, you'll end up on unpaid vacation permanently
You’ll be able to find a new AI model to train to take your next job.
Zoom CEO is obviously an idiot. Who listens to those people?
That's not the question. It's how do these rot economists get into these leading postions and how do we prevent this?
You must be a ruthless piece of work to become a CEO
s/at the beach/while your unemployed/
Wake me up when the AI travels to the network PoPs for me to replace broken parts, to install new transponder cards and new routers, to cable everything up correctly, to label it all and to photograph the result for documentation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The company made famous by pandemic video chatting has a new vision for the future of work.
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.
“I think solving the AI hallucination problem — I think that’ll be fixed,” Yuan said, offering a lot of belief and little insight into how.
It’s unclear if they’ll reach this point, but it’s naive to think Zoom wouldn’t automate some jobs if they could.
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We're not that naive
Nurse here, there are many jobs AI would never be able to do.
Yes please
Jokes aside but in the not so distant future you will be able to clone your image and voice and just pay some third-World guy to pretend to be you in video calls while you pay him a cut from the salary
This sounds like employed with extra steps.