The CEOs of Zoom and Klarna have presented earnings calls using AI avatars

A hot potato: As if we didn't already know how much CEOs love the job-cutting, cost-slashing, investor-pleasing benefits of AI, chief executives are now using the technology to create avatars of themselves in earnings calls. Klarna's CEO recently did it, and now Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has followed suit. Yuan used an AI avatar of himself via Zoom Clips, the company's asynchronous video creation tool. The clip, which you can see here at around the 2:40 mark, shows a realistic-looking recreation of the CEO speaking to the camera. While it might be hard to tell that this isn't the real Yuan when the clip is paused, it's fairly obvious that something is off when he starts speaking. His mouth looks a little like somebody else's moving lips have been superimposed onto his face. Then there are the eyes, which are eerily unmoving and seem to be blinking in an almost set pattern. "I am proud to be among the first CEOs to use an avatar in an earnings call," he said. "It is just one example of how ... Read full article.