Posted 2/19/2024, 6:18:53 AM
AI Avatars Poised to Join Workforce by End of 2023, Attending Meetings and Fielding Questions for Employees
- AI avatars that can attend meetings, act, talk, and solve problems like actual workers will be ready by end of 2023, claims Otter CEO Sam Liang
- Avatars will be trained on workers' meeting notes, voice data to replicate their cadence, conversations
- In trials, avatars answered 90% of questions; when stuck, questions were sent to human worker
- Liang says avatars will save employees' time, boost productivity by attending meetings so workers can focus on creative tasks
- Some organizations warn powerful AI like GPT-4 risks eliminating jobs and becoming threat to humanity