Spartans,
Late for a Zoom and want to get caught up quickly without interrupting? Try asking the Zoom AI Companion to catch you up and let you know if your name was mentioned.
Zoom recently released their new AI tool and it is now available for all SJSU zoom users. Zoom AI Companion is an AI assistant that helps you summarize meetings, take notes, catch you up if you joined late, and collaborate with your team, among other features.
Zoom AI Companion only activates if you choose to start it. If you are the meeting host, you will get a pop up box asking if you want AI Companion to assist with your meeting. If you click the blue “Turn on” button, meeting attendees will be informed that the AI Companion is enabled.
A pop up with bolded title “Start AI Companion to assist with your meeting” and normal text stating “Start meeting questions and meeting summary for everyone in this meeting.” There is a check box labeled “Don’t remind me again,” blue text saying “Close” and a blue button labeled “Turn on”.
You can choose which Zoom AI Companion features are enabled in the AI Companion tab of your Zoom account settings. Zoom has provided a helpful guide for enabling “Meeting Summary,” one of AI Companion’s more popular features.
According to Zoom’s stated policy, “Zoom does not use any of your audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments or other communications-like customer content (such as poll results, whiteboard and reactions) to train Zoom’s or its third-party artificial intelligence models.” The CSU Chancellor’s Office recommends that Zoom AI Companion should not be used for confidential or sensitive discussions, conferring with attorneys, or HR actions.
Thank you, Amy Segeren from our Program Management & Operational Excellence team, for providing this tip. As always, the SJSU IT Service Desk is here to help by phone at (408) 924-1530 or online.
Thanks,
Bob Lim
Vice President for Information Technology
and CIO at San José State University