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I prerecorded myself in video meetings for a week (and nobody knew)
Under pressure to create groundbreaking content without leaving my apartment, I designed an experiment to see if I could automate my presence in video meetings for one week without my co-workers or supervisors noticing.
Jesse O
August 14, 2020 at 3:59 pm
Thanks for watching everyone! If you want to see me feebly attempt to automate other life tasks or attempt any other high-tech pranks, let me know down below 🙂 ideas welcome
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Frank Vincent Tolores Gesmundo
August 14, 2020 at 4:44 pm
automate common repetitive tasks, rn m having trouble to rename many files
David Jones
August 14, 2020 at 5:37 pm
The names in the video chat are so unique, I instantly found out way too much information about your org. Perhaps those should be blurred? Or is this a blursed moment?
Jesse O
August 14, 2020 at 6:27 pm
@David Jones Thanks for asking David. Everyone featured in the vid was given the option of being blurred long before the vid went live.
Rodrigo Picchi
August 15, 2020 at 1:24 am
Hey Jesse, i really enjoyed your video! Do u have other to share?
Andrey Lucas
August 15, 2020 at 1:27 am
Great video
Danilo O. Lim Jr.
August 15, 2020 at 8:16 am
Nice one Jesse…
Forkui Chow
August 15, 2020 at 12:13 pm
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Eshu Marneedi
August 16, 2020 at 11:10 pm
YOU ARE A BOT HAHA
sriram v swaminathan
August 14, 2020 at 7:18 pm
😂👍
GonzalezJio
August 14, 2020 at 7:21 pm
😂😂😂
Kanaad Pathak
August 14, 2020 at 7:31 pm
If you combine AI voice cloning , deep fakes and OpenAI’s GPT-3 model to generate the responses. You’ll pretty much not have to put in any effort lmao
funx24x7
August 14, 2020 at 7:37 pm
I love it. Making the best of a situation while doing science and entertaining the world, what more could you ask for?
My take on this would have just two video clips: an idle animation, and a clip for speaking but with a very, very low frame rate. Just have the talking clip trigger by the sound of your voice and you can reply in real time while none would be the wiser.
Noob master
August 14, 2020 at 7:39 pm
Genius
lidermin
August 14, 2020 at 7:39 pm
this was hilarious !!! nice experiment man !!
Maxx Koggen
August 14, 2020 at 8:13 pm
This is less automating the melting and more automating responses since you still handed to be watching/attending the meeting. Just that your presence isn’t live. Still enjoyed it.
Jack Napoli
August 14, 2020 at 8:35 pm
I’m using this for school, thanks
Keith Foo
August 14, 2020 at 8:50 pm
Little did he know the other participants were also conferencing pre-recorded…
ronch182
August 14, 2020 at 8:54 pm
Pretty much proves how much a waste of time meetings are for the everyone not involved.
David Brown
August 14, 2020 at 9:29 pm
This gives me so much anxiety.
Jens Tulio Damgaard
August 14, 2020 at 9:43 pm
I loved everything about this experiment, but it also kinda freaks me out that other people could be doing this virtually! Your last point really stuck with me though, in that in these meeting we have virtually, they are some of the only opportunities we have to see people’s faces and interact with them in (hopefully) honest ways 🙂
TAREK
August 14, 2020 at 10:07 pm
This was so cool :3
TJ Jacquemin
August 14, 2020 at 10:17 pm
You have to do this again dude. Also the mars rover video was my favorite from CNET
You are my 🌞
August 14, 2020 at 10:31 pm
Brilliant.
that was fun. loved it.
You Rock.
want more of this.
The Desi Vegan
August 14, 2020 at 10:33 pm
He should have pre-recorded everything for that week and just went on vacation.
Carlos Avila
August 14, 2020 at 10:49 pm
we would like to announce Jesse just got fired…
BeHitchSlapped
August 14, 2020 at 11:12 pm
I would love to see more stuff like this – it was hilarious and I bet it would work in most cases for most people. I can’t count the number of meetings that I’m supposed to attend where I have little to no input and can get the content I really need in a fraction of the time from the Powerpoint that is distributed afterwards.
daniel romero
August 14, 2020 at 11:37 pm
Wow what a great experiment, i will try it at some point
sasamykolors
August 14, 2020 at 11:50 pm
Instant legend
Stuff
August 15, 2020 at 12:05 am
Wait a minute…. How do we know that this video wasn’t pre-recorded???
hmmm I smell something rotten…
Edit: i realized that pretty much everyone else made this same joke and i am not as clever or funny as I thought. I will leave this up so you guys can learn from my mistakes.
jon chalk
August 15, 2020 at 1:02 am
👍
Angel Monzon
August 15, 2020 at 1:25 am
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Nguyễn Thanh Huỳnh
August 15, 2020 at 1:31 am
Fooling everyone by prerecording yourself talking about how you are going to fool everyone with prerecorded video is pretty epic.
Jasing Marma
August 15, 2020 at 8:04 am
What if someone asks you something?
People will scold you for that…
At the end it’s similar to not attending that meeting.
Anna - Let's Get Acquainted
August 15, 2020 at 8:34 am
1:30 wicked
aaron acosta
August 15, 2020 at 8:38 am
this episode was prerecorded
Gaurav Datta
August 15, 2020 at 10:03 am
Ayaz … LOL for your expressions
Don O'Van
August 15, 2020 at 10:05 am
None of you freaks and geeks will survive the upcoming apocalypse.
Poison Empress
August 15, 2020 at 10:40 am
this is a neat little experiment, might give it a try sometime haha just kidding, but am tempted to see if it’d work 😛
Kevin M. Gates
August 15, 2020 at 11:22 am
Awesome experiment, Jesse!
dandalo
August 15, 2020 at 11:33 am
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was your big inspiration…
Adel Nehikhare
August 15, 2020 at 11:34 am
Did this for my proctored exams😂😂
Nathaniel12345678910
August 15, 2020 at 11:36 am
Now I need to figure out how to use this with Respondus!
AHMED MUNTASSIR
August 15, 2020 at 11:59 am
school/college students : NOTE THAT DOWN
Andy GK
August 15, 2020 at 12:51 pm
this was really fun
Jack Kuncze
August 15, 2020 at 1:00 pm
Really great
Gabriel
August 15, 2020 at 2:23 pm
You’re only called on at the absolute worst times. It should be a crime to schedule calls from 830-2PM. This man is performing a public service.
CeZaR NeBuN
August 15, 2020 at 2:48 pm
You did not automate anything…only thing you did was made recordings and selected the one you needed for the time being…you were still viewing the whole meeting yourself…so yep…no automation … think of Tesla, self driving mode, that’s automation….the ai makes all the decision, the driver does not tell the car to make a turn or go straight, ai does it automatically based on million of work hours that someone had stay in front of a computer to write the code for it….try again….fail
Rishi Pahwa
August 15, 2020 at 4:45 pm
Absolutely brilliant video
Loud Mime
August 15, 2020 at 6:21 pm
I had a crazy ex gf who I was with LDR with a few years ago. I pre recorded myself at times because I couldn’t take the videocall 24/7 demand from her when my mom was doing chemo! Tough times.
Loud Mime
August 15, 2020 at 6:23 pm
Omegle uses this tech eons till now
David A
August 15, 2020 at 7:04 pm
But you have to be clicking the buttons… this seems like more work…
Dadylongarms
August 15, 2020 at 7:11 pm
This was an awesome awesome video. And Yes I want more. Lol
Funny Andrew
August 15, 2020 at 7:18 pm
Does Ecomm Live cost money?
Arda Arda
August 15, 2020 at 8:13 pm
Plot twist the other people pre-prerecorded the conference!
Sam Perez
August 15, 2020 at 11:06 pm
Yes!!! That was epic! The look on all their faces was the best part.
iblackfeathers
August 16, 2020 at 12:15 am
how about trying to see how far meta you can get? automate the entire series of automation using automated technologies and a.i. generating its own automated shows. a.i. is already creating its own original music. see how much of all this can be done by itself.
Paul Imms
August 16, 2020 at 1:53 am
I could see this working well by using a blue tooth mike, but doing other things while listening into the meeting that did not need your active participation.
Ben XUE
August 16, 2020 at 3:50 am
First, this is not just playing the pre-recorded video. He was standing by all the time in case emergency. Second, this is just an meanless experiment, since you took much more time other than actual talking…
88 L
August 16, 2020 at 4:58 am
This will be funny in my workplace.
Until the part where I come clean.
Ayush Sharma
August 16, 2020 at 5:13 am
Careful. He’s a hero DO NOT FIRE HIM EVERRRRRRR! @CNET
winter roll
August 16, 2020 at 6:09 am
Stop apologising for something so great!
Devon Edwards
August 16, 2020 at 6:15 am
Hahhaha omg GENIUS!!!
pijesz
August 16, 2020 at 6:31 am
Let me guess, this video was prerecorded too?
Its Flacco
August 16, 2020 at 7:12 am
Genious G.O.D.
Muhamad Gibran Augusthiko
August 16, 2020 at 9:44 am
GIVE THIS DUDE A RAISE
Benny Ong
August 16, 2020 at 10:00 am
That’s a cool experiment! 😉
hblaub
August 16, 2020 at 10:12 am
You gotta use an AI behind the video loop! So when and which clip to use. Granted, given the current idiot assistants, that could suck
Dara Meybodi
August 16, 2020 at 12:58 pm
Dude you have to combine this with AI so that the machine can choose which clip to play when by analyzing the context!
Roll Royce
August 16, 2020 at 2:17 pm
wowowow!!!
Eshu Marneedi
August 16, 2020 at 11:09 pm
dang this video was soo cool! Its impractical, but so fun to watch.