The future is … sending AI avatars to meetings for us, says Zoom boss

Eric Yuan suggests technology is five or six years away and will free up time to spend with family

Zoom users in the not-too-distant future could send AI avatars to attend meetings in their absence, the company's chief executive has suggested, delegating the drudge-work of corporate life to a system trained on their own content.

Such a system would be five or six years" away, Eric Yuan told The Verge magazine, but he added that the company was working on nearer-term technologies that could bring it closer to reality.