Zoom, which has made headlines with its AI companion product and AI-supported documentation, is now launching an AI avatar feature for users. Soon, Zoom will allow you to create an AI avatar that you can use to send text messages to your team. This AI avatar will resemble you and even be able to speak.
You can create a digital avatar by recording a video. From the avatar creation screen, you can type the message you want your AI avatar to say. Following this step, you can enable the avatar to deliver the entire conversation for you. The AI avatar feature will only work with Zoom’s Clips feature. This will allow you to record short videos for your colleagues.
However, AI avatars also bring along current issues such as the use of deepfake technology. According to Smita Hashim, Zoom’s Chief Product Officer, the company has approached this feature with great care, implementing advanced authentication, watermark technology, and strict usage policies.
The special AI avatars, part of Zoom’s monthly additional $12 AI Companion add-on, will be available in early next year. If you are a Zoom subscriber who does not use the AI Companion, you will still be able to create clips using pre-set AI avatars and voices instead of your own avatar.
Zoom AI Companion 2.0
In the meantime, it’s worth noting that Zoom AI Companion 2.0 has been introduced as part of the announced updates. AI Companion 2.0 will exist as a permanent presence in the Zoom Workplace window. This tool will not only remember past conversations but can also find quotes for users’ statements. Since it is web-connected, AI Companion 2.0 can also work with third-party applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Microsoft Office. Other functionalities include summarizing documents, creating email threads, and drafting content.
AI Companion can also create content such as speaker biographies, event descriptions, and messages, assisting employees in finding key points in messages, taking notes, creating post-meeting summaries, and composing emails. Although AI Companion 2.0 has not yet been released, Zoom Workplace users will be able to download this tool for free next month.
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