Zoom AI Companion is a collection of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies integrated into Zoom's video communications platform. These AI-driven features are designed to enhance meeting experiences, boost productivity, and deliver valuable insights.
Zoom AI Companion features are available for all students, faculty, and staff as of August 19, 2024.
Features
Note: Remember that AI features may not always be accurate, and human review is recommended.
Zoom AI Companion has the following key features:
- In-Meeting Questions: The AI Companion assists with real-time chat during meetings, answering common questions, summarizing discussions, and identifying action items to help you stay organized. For more information, refer to Asking in-meeting questions with the AI Companion (zoom.com).
- Meeting Summary: At the end of the meeting, the AI Companion generates a comprehensive summary, highlighting key discussion points and decisions in chapters. The host can then edit and share this summary with all participants. For more information, refer to Using Meeting Summary with AI Companion (zoom.com).
- Meeting Coach: This AI-powered feature provides post-meeting feedback on various conversation aspects, including talk speed and the use of filler words. For more information, refer to Using Smart Recording with AI Companion (zoom.com).
- Smart Chapters: Automatically segments recorded meetings into distinct sections, making it easier to navigate to important points and highlighting key takeaways. For more information, refer to Using Smart Recording with AI Companion (zoom.com).
- Whiteboard Content: AI enhances the whiteboard by generating ideas, refining existing content, and adding objects to the canvas. For more information, refer to Using Whiteboard Content Generation with AI Companion (zoom.com).
Benefits
- AI-generated meeting summaries capture key points and action items, reducing or eliminating the need for manual note-taking.
- Smart recordings automatically organize content by chapter and highlight important information, allowing faster review.
- Real-time transcription and translation break down language and accessibility barriers and facilitate communication.
- Live captions provide real-time transcription, aiding those with hearing impairments.
- Better insights and analytics.
- Provides post-meeting feedback on various conversation aspects, including talk speed, the use of filler words, and more.
Enabling Zoom AI Companion
- Go to ithaca.zoom.us and sign in with your Ithaca College account.
- From the left menu bar, select Settings.
- In the top menu, select the AI Companion option.
- You can toggle the features you want to include, such as Meeting summary with AI Companion and Allow users to ask AI Companion questions about the meeting.
- Each option can be toggled on or off independently.
- Changing settings in your Zoom account applies the changes to all future meetings.
How to Check if AI is Enabled or Active in a Meeting
If you are hosting the meeting or have permission to request that AI tools be enabled, the AI Companion symbol will be visible in the bottom toolbar.
When the AI Companion is enabled and active in a meeting, the flashing AI symbol will appear in the top status bar, even if you do not have access to the AI tools yourself.
It is recommended that hosts notify participants when AI tools are active to ensure awareness, and participants should look for the flashing AI symbol when in meetings to identify when AI Companion is active.
Privacy
For details on how Zoom stores and uses your personal data, refer to How Zoom AI Companion features handle your data (zoom.com).
Zoom does not use any of your audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments, or other communication-related content (such as poll results, whiteboard activity, and reactions) to train its own or third-party artificial intelligence models.
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