The company made famous by pandemic video chatting has a new vision for the future of work.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan toldThe Vergethat AI avatars will one day do your job on your behalf.
Today for this session, ideally, I do not need to join.
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I can send a digital version of myself to join so I can go to the beach.
Maybe one or two emails will tell me, Eric, its hard for the digital version to reply.
Can you do that?
Thats something that is very important for us.
We are not there yet.
When Patel asked who would fix it, Yuan said: Its someone down the stack.
Yuan says there are certain elements of work that you cant automate the human interaction.
I think AI cannot replace that.
We still need to have in-person interaction.
That is very important.
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