Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
If you've always wanted to say you have "people" to attend your meetings, there's an app in development for that, as long as you're comfortable with the idea of eventually sending an AI bot in your place and potentially offending your human colleagues.
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Key points
- MeetTwins, from Indian developer Aditya Shinde, is an AI assistant currently recruiting users for its beta.
- Shinde describes the tool on its website as being inspired by his own desire to send an AI bot to his Google Meet calls, an idea he instead decided to develop into an actual product built using AI models from India-based AI firm Sarvam, and with the ability to add a digital twin avatar created by Simli.
- Let’s be frank for a moment: No one wants to be stuck in a boring Google Meet call that could have been an email – an argument for which MeetTwins, ironically, provides even further justification – but deciding to send an AI representative on your behalf isn’t likely to engender feelings of camaraderie or support from one’s coworkers.
- Shinde said that clearly labeling the MeetTwins bot as an AI in the call, and announcing it when it first speaks, "actually builds trust,” though we imagine that might not be the case with those who are skeptical of AI.
Sources (1)
- [1]Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet callThe Register: AI/ML · Sep 30, 04:03 PM
If you've always wanted to say you have "people" to attend your meetings, there's an app in development for that, as long as you're comfortable with the idea of eventually sending an AI bot in your place and potentially offending your human colleagues.
MeetTwins, from Indian developer Aditya Shinde, is an AI assistant currently recruiting users for its beta.
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