Zoom CEO confirms bizarre plan for ‘virtual AI clones’ that will join meetings for you even if you’re on vacation – The US Sun

ZOOM CEO Eric Yuan has revealed his ambitious plan to create AI clones to alleviate his demanding work life.

The billionaire businessman – who criticized the “boring” five-day work week – lifted the lid on the bizarre venture on Sunday.

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“You don’t need to take five or six Zoom calls every day,” Yuan said in a interview with The Verge.

“You can leverage AI to do this.”

Yuan is hopeful that the AI ​​“digital twin” will remove cumbersome work tasks and even shorten the work week to three or four days.

“I really hate reading emails every morning, and ideally my AI version reads most emails,” Yuan said.

“We’re not there yet.”

The innovative tool would also help with daily tasks including messaging, phone calls, emails, coding, and project management on Zoom Workplace.

This way, employees can free up time and “go to the beach”.

He continued: “Why not spend more time with your family?

“Why not focus on more creative things, giving back your time, giving back to the community and society to help others, right?”

Yuan said the clones would handle about 90% of the work, but would not completely replace in-person interactions.

“If I stop by your office, let’s say I give you a hug, you shake my hand, right? I don’t think AI can replace that,” Yuan continued.

“We still need to have face-to-face interaction.

“This is very important.

“Say you and I are sitting together at a local Starbucks and having a very intimate conversation – AI can’t do that either.”

The CEO said Zoom’s digital twin technology would likely start out as a voice assistant, but could eventually become more immersive, making a virtual version of yourself available in virtual environments like those found in the Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3.

Yuan also described how you theoretically have multiple versions of your digital twin based on different needs. For example, one version might be a sales specialist and another might be an engineer.

This comes after the world’s first AI hospital, where robot doctors can treat 3,000 patients a day, opened in China.

Dubbed “Hospital Agent”, the virtual installation will have the potential to save “millions” through its autonomous interaction.

Developed by researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the AI ​​hospital is so advanced that it plans to be operational in the second half of 2024.

Six months of research and development means the hospital is almost ready for practical application, where it is expected to transform the way doctors diagnose and treat patients.

Agent Hospital research team leader Liu Yang said the AI ​​hospital will bring immense benefits to both medical professionals and the general public, according to a Global Times report.

Thanks to its simulated environment and autonomous evolution capability, AI doctors will be able to treat up to 10,000 patients in a matter of days.

To put this into perspective, it would take at least two years for human doctors to reach the same numbers.

Tests conducted by Chinese researchers have already shown that AI medical agents achieve an impressive 93.06% accuracy rate on the MedQA dataset (US Medical Licensing Exam questions).