AI is going to enhance remote collaboration in several ways, from addressing routine functions to contextual and predictive applications that will make virtual meetings more efficient and better aligned with people’s expectations

How much is AI going to change Virtual conferences? This question ishighly rhetoric, as the answer cannot but be “a lot”. Chat boxes and Digital assistants have already given us a little taste of how much powerful this technology can be; therefore, let’s expect many disruptive changes in the near future. On the other side, AI and remote collaboration sounds to be a winning mix for several reasons: final users should enjoy a lot of benefits from the application of AI to virtual conferencing, in the end. Let’s see why.

First, there are a lot of menial tasks during a conference that could be happily delegated to AI, like complex dial-in, conference scheduling, content sharing and password management.  Joining and ending a virtual Meeting – the so called conversational AI – is probably the first area that will profit from this technology.

Yet, conversational AI is not the way to exploit the real potential of AI. Image, facial and voice recognition are three areas where AI could bear fruits in a couple of years, if it is combined with big data, the second technology that is going to change the way we live. It will be possible to build applications with cognitive capabilities that are able to reshape the virtual conferencing world that we presently know.

Many repetitive manual tasks will be automatized this way, like, for example, taking meeting minutes and notes, or receiving follow ups after the conclusion of your meeting. Voice commands will allow users to conduct a conference by simply giving vocal orders, and facial recognition will enable your pc to assign tasks to the right participants to your conference.

An interesting application of AI is contextual conferencing: imagine a tool that can measure the level of engagement of your audience by monitoring nonverbal language and head movements. This could be helpful in order to check the success of a presentation, or else to adjust the frame of the video conference and adapt it to the device of each individual user.

Last, we have predictive AI, the frontier of this technology. Still far from being implemented, predictive AI will utilize big data to monitor and forecast the needs of your audience before they are aware of them. To give you an idea, imagine that your pc becomes able to read a whole library, in order to find the right quote to read during a virtual meeting and serve it to you one second before you think “an appropriate quote would be really helpful at this point. Ah, thank you, my virtual assistant. What would I do without you”.

In conclusion, the merge of virtual conferencing and AI is expected to bring about another revolution the extent of which is difficult to imagine now. Virtual meetings will be much more different from today in the future, with features and functionalities that we can barely imagine.

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