They want this, until Zoom employees start using it.
The Zoom RTO was just hilarious.
Zoom oddly enough was one of the first companies to require people to return to office.
They of course me c-level executives, not us plebians who do actual work.
I don’t think he means that either, the implication would be that he can be replaced by AI.
I don’t think he knows what he means.
This sounds like employed with extra steps.
We’re not that naive
Zoom CEO is obviously an idiot. Who listens to those people?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The company made famous by pandemic video chatting has a new vision for the future of work.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told The Verge that AI avatars will one day do your job on your behalf.
According to Yuan, the avatar will speak in your Zoom meetings for you, answer emails, and take phone calls, supposedly freeing you up for the rest of your life.
Yuan noted this is a distant vision of the future, but his comments come at a time of deep skepticism of AI technology and what it can really do.
“I think solving the AI hallucination problem — I think that’ll be fixed,” Yuan said, offering a lot of belief and little insight into how.
It’s unclear if they’ll reach this point, but it’s naive to think Zoom wouldn’t automate some jobs if they could.
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My job is pushing people in wheelchairs at the airport. Your move Zoom.
Thank you. As a child I always thought this was such an important job. It’s a shame the highest paid humans are useless.
It IS an important job! Without us, the disabled, the elderly, and the lazy enough to become 600lbs couldn’t traverse large airports, and fly to various cities. We do a lot of hard backbreaking work for often very little money.
So the next time you fly with grandma, slip your wheelchair assistant a $20 bill tip. Unless they were spectacularly awful at their jobs, and tossed your grandma down a flight of stairs…
That would be awful!!! Still though…maybe like $5?
Are you trying to promote the tipping culture in that job as well or something?
“Well grandma was a little racist at times”
Easy; just shove a massive LiDAR scanner underneath, a few rechargeable 12 volt batteries, an acceptably advanced image processing system- it’s basically a self driving golf cart that would probably cost more then your yearly salary and not work as well but common sense doesn’t really mean anything to management so it’ll happen either way!
…stop being right. I know you don’t know the layout of the airport I work at, but theres a part where I’m SURE that thing would run over people.
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AND it reduces emissions?! Management so sold
So, end capitalism and build a fully automated post-scarcity utopia where machines do all the work and humans spend our lives doing the things we really want to do?
Sounds good bro, let’s do it.
Something tells me this offer applies to ruling class only
I also want this. But Zoom is a corporation, so it must be some sort of trick.
The joke is you AI yourself out of a job. And Zoom collects a small portion of what you would have been paid. Along with thousands of other workers.
“and all your income from these calls will go to zoom”
Ah yes, because in our economic system, people with no job can just relax at the beach all day.
He clearly doesn’t understand how office politics works. If I’m taking a Zoom call at the beach, I want my camera on so I can flex on everyone in the office or home in their pajamas. I hope the CEO joins the call and sees me in my shades so I can get promoted to VP of Staying Light and Keeping it Tight.
And what… my work will still pay me???
I don’t think so.
We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.
You guys don’t have paid vacation or something?
Wake me up when the AI travels to the network PoPs for me to replace broken parts, to install new transponder cards and new routers, to cable everything up correctly, to label it all and to photograph the result for documentation.
s/at the beach/while your unemployed/
