Otter CEO Aims for AI Avatars to Attend Meetings by 2023, Raising Productivity and Ethics Concerns
• Otter CEO envisions AI avatars attending meetings on people's behalf by end of 2023, trained on their voice data and notes to mimic them
• Avatars could answer 90% of questions, forwarding the rest to the actual worker to respond
• Would boost productivity by freeing up people's time while avatars provide status updates
• Building emotionally intelligent avatars that follow meeting etiquettes is challenging
• People are using AI to generate synthetic voice clones for video game characters, concerning some actors