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I would pay cold hard cash if I could easily create an AI avatar of myself that could attend teams meetings and do basic interaction, like give a status update

I would pay cold hard cash if I could easily create an AI avatar of myself that could attend teams meetings and do basic interaction, like give a status update when called on.

pantulis 2y ago
Last time I checked it was not possible through Teams API call for video conferences, although it is pretty easy to set up a chat bot in Teams with a custom Copilot. I'd say that it looked more feasible through a plugin for Google Meet but there are too many hoops. I'd expect that to be reserved either for the host platforms or for selected partners.
- Philpax 2y ago
  I can't imagine someone doing this would be doing it through an official integration; it's much more likely to be a virtual webcam, which is compatible with anything.
- hassaanr 2y ago
  Give us a few weeks and this will be possible!
  - windexh8er 2y ago
    It's mostly there today [0][1]. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-tool-enables-real-time-face-swapping-on-webcams-raising-fraud-concerns/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-a... [1] https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam
    - pantulis 2y ago
      I didn't mean the video impersonation, I was referring to the possibility of making a synthetic bot automatically attend a conference call like a regular user without using a desktop camera simulation or stuff like that. It's not a matter of AI, it's a matter of how Teams or Meet or Zoom allow programmatic access to the video and audio streams (the presence APIs for attending a meeting are mostly there, I think).
      - bpanahij 2y ago
        You could hack this together now with OBS and Tavus.
- 93po 2y ago
  using OBS software you can create a virtual web cam of whatever you want
zoeysmithe 2y ago
Okay so this is impossible because you'll get caught because tech will never fool everyone like this all the time. But lets talk about the sentiment behind here. Am I the only one seeing some terrible things being done with AI in terms of time management, meetings, and written materials? Asking AI to "turn this nice concise 3 paragraphs into a 6 page report" is a huge problem. Everyone thinks they're an amazing technical writer now, but most good writing is concise and short and these AI monstrosities are just a waste of everyone's time. Reform work culture instead! Why do we have cameras on our faces? Why are we making these reports? Why so many meetings? "Meeting culture" is the problem and it needs to go, but it upholds middle-management jobs and structures, so here we are asking for robots of us to sit in meetings with management to get just the 8 bullet points we need from that 1 hour meeting. We've entered a new level of kafkaesque capitalism where a manager puts 8 bullets points into an AI, gets a professional 4 page report, then turns that into a meeting for staff to take that report and meeting transcript to...you guessed it, turn it back into those 8 bullet points.
ndarray 2y ago
This would require the AI to alert you as soon as your colleagues are starting to figure out that they're talking to an AI and start interrogating it, so that you can jump in with your real mic and save the situation. Preferably the AI would repeat whatever you speak into your mic, otherwise there would be noticeable audio changes. Hope they never ask you to sing.

I would pay cold hard cash if I could easily create an AI avatar of myself that could attend teams meetings and do basic interaction, like give a status update when called on.

pantulis 2y ago

Last time I checked it was not possible through Teams API call for video conferences, although it is pretty easy to set up a chat bot in Teams with a custom Copilot. I'd say that it looked more feasible through a plugin for Google Meet but there are too many hoops. I'd expect that to be reserved either for the host platforms or for selected partners.

Philpax 2y ago
I can't imagine someone doing this would be doing it through an official integration; it's much more likely to be a virtual webcam, which is compatible with anything.
hassaanr 2y ago
Give us a few weeks and this will be possible!
- windexh8er 2y ago
  It's mostly there today [0][1]. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-tool-enables-real-time-face-swapping-on-webcams-raising-fraud-concerns/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-a... [1] https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam
  - pantulis 2y ago
    I didn't mean the video impersonation, I was referring to the possibility of making a synthetic bot automatically attend a conference call like a regular user without using a desktop camera simulation or stuff like that. It's not a matter of AI, it's a matter of how Teams or Meet or Zoom allow programmatic access to the video and audio streams (the presence APIs for attending a meeting are mostly there, I think).
    - bpanahij 2y ago
      You could hack this together now with OBS and Tavus.
93po 2y ago
using OBS software you can create a virtual web cam of whatever you want

zoeysmithe 2y ago

Okay so this is impossible because you'll get caught because tech will never fool everyone like this all the time. But lets talk about the sentiment behind here. Am I the only one seeing some terrible things being done with AI in terms of time management, meetings, and written materials? Asking AI to "turn this nice concise 3 paragraphs into a 6 page report" is a huge problem. Everyone thinks they're an amazing technical writer now, but most good writing is concise and short and these AI monstrosities are just a waste of everyone's time. Reform work culture instead! Why do we have cameras on our faces? Why are we making these reports? Why so many meetings? "Meeting culture" is the problem and it needs to go, but it upholds middle-management jobs and structures, so here we are asking for robots of us to sit in meetings with management to get just the 8 bullet points we need from that 1 hour meeting. We've entered a new level of kafkaesque capitalism where a manager puts 8 bullets points into an AI, gets a professional 4 page report, then turns that into a meeting for staff to take that report and meeting transcript to...you guessed it, turn it back into those 8 bullet points.

ndarray 2y ago

This would require the AI to alert you as soon as your colleagues are starting to figure out that they're talking to an AI and start interrogating it, so that you can jump in with your real mic and save the situation. Preferably the AI would repeat whatever you speak into your mic, otherwise there would be noticeable audio changes. Hope they never ask you to sing.