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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago (6 children)

My job is pushing people in wheelchairs at the airport. Your move Zoom.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Zoom oddly enough was one of the first companies to require people to return to office.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They of course me c-level executives, not us plebians who do actual work.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This can’t turn out badly.

I’m going to name my avatar Skynet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The bigger issue is that if your can have your AI assistant do your job while you're in vacation, you'll end up on unpaid vacation permanently

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You’ll be able to find a new AI model to train to take your next job.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You do you. I'll name mine Skylar!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

"They're the same picture."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
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