Summary

Summary

The speaker reflects on a significant moment of prescience: discovering that Microsoft Teams is planning to integrate AI avatars into video calls, a feature they had independently developed and demonstrated over a year ago through Sensus Lab. On August 14th, they uploaded a working example of an AI avatar system designed to participate in video calls, complete with API integrations that pulled content from emails, calendars, and previous meetings. The system featured a video avatar capable of responding to questions within a video call context, and they recorded a demonstration video to showcase its possibilities.

The work represented well over a year of development—started, paused, and resumed—resulting in a fully conceptualized system that required only resources to make it production-ready. Seeing Microsoft announce similar functionality on July 6th serves as validation of their foresight and technical direction. The speaker frames this as one of many instances where they've preemptively forecast emerging technology trends, with the particularly exciting element being that they had a working version, not just a concept.

Key Points

• Developed a functional Sensus Lab AI avatar system for video calls over a year ago, featuring API-driven content integration from emails, calendars, and previous meetings
• The system included a video avatar capable of responding to questions and participating in video calls, demonstrated through a self-recorded proof-of-concept video
• Microsoft Teams announced similar AI avatar integration on July 6th, validating the prescience and market alignment of the earlier Sensus Lab work
• The development spanned well over a year with interruptions, representing a fully capable design that needed resources for production implementation
• This example represents a broader pattern of preemptively forecasting and building working versions of technology concepts before they become industry standard

Poignant Quotes

• "On the 14th of August, I uploaded an example of A census lab. Which was [...] Exactly that. And I had the full stack for how that would be done, the API calls would bring in [...] content in from Other sources like yeah emails and calendar and previous meetings"
• "It was probably well over a year that I was doing that and I had the full, it was going to be fully capable, but obviously you need resource to make it happen."
• "I've just seen that, you know, today, well yesterday the 6th, That Microsoft are looking to integrate the same sort of thing into Teams coming up. So I suppose that's just a point of prescience"
• "It's just one of many things I suppose that I've preemptively Forecast. And in particular, worked on and had a working version, which is what's exciting to me."

Follow-up Suggestions

• Document the full technical architecture and API integration approach from the Sensus Lab avatar project to preserve the implementation details and validate the timeline of development
• Compile a portfolio of prescient forecasts with working prototypes, including timestamps and evidence, to establish a pattern of innovation leadership
• Explore whether the Sensus Lab avatar concept could be revived or positioned as a differentiated offering, particularly focusing on aspects that may differ from the Microsoft Teams implementation
• Consider reaching out to potential partners or investors with the documented evidence of prescient development work as proof of technical foresight and execution capability

Topics (tags)

AI, Business, Sensus InVista, Personal Experience, Personal Development

Transcript (verbatim)

Team. Recall the point of precedence. Just in the news, and to be fair, I've not looked at the news for ages becauseIf I could be ...fame-hungry in nature.

Not that it's mungosphere for me, all that I just found.

You know, I hate to be... serving with certain interests Your next team's meeting could have an AI teammate that answers questions for you. I'm taking a picture of it. 6th of July On the 14th of August, I uploaded an example of A census lab. Which was and Exactly that. And I had the full stack for how that would be done, the API calls would bring inThere. Avatar with It wasn't MCP at the time, but that it was bringing... Let me just lift my mic up.

Tell you what's bringing, um... content in from Other sources like yeah emails and calendar and previous meetings There was the video avatar that would respond to questions. and that it would be featured within a video call. That was me on my bill and I'd worked on that and I think I'd worked on that and then left it and come back to it. It was probably well over a year that I was doing that and I had the full, it was going to be fully capable, but obviously you need resource to make it happen. Um...

So I recorded a video of myself talking to myself in this avatar mainly to demonstrate the um The feature of it in terms of it being a possibility I've just seen that, you know, today, well yesterday the 6th, That Microsoft are looking to integrate the same sort of thing into Teams coming up. So I suppose that's just a point of prescience and... Um Show's alignment. Interesting. It's just one of many things I suppose that I've preemptively Forecast. And in particular, worked on and had a working version, which is what's exciting to me.

Notes

Transcript

Team. Recall the point of precedence. Just in the news, and to be fair, I've not looked at the news for ages becauseIf I could be ...fame-hungry in nature.

Not that it's mungosphere for me, all that I just found.

You know, I hate to be... serving with certain interests Your next team's meeting could have an AI teammate that answers questions for you. I'm taking a picture of it. 6th of July On the 14th of August, I uploaded an example of A census lab. Which was and Exactly that. And I had the full stack for how that would be done, the API calls would bring inThere. Avatar with It wasn't MCP at the time, but that it was bringing... Let me just lift my mic up.

Tell you what's bringing, um... content in from Other sources like yeah emails and calendar and previous meetings There was the video avatar that would respond to questions. and that it would be featured within a video call. That was me on my bill and I'd worked on that and I think I'd worked on that and then left it and come back to it. It was probably well over a year that I was doing that and I had the full, it was going to be fully capable, but obviously you need resource to make it happen. Um...

So I recorded a video of myself talking to myself in this avatar mainly to demonstrate the um The feature of it in terms of it being a possibility I've just seen that, you know, today, well yesterday the 6th, That Microsoft are looking to integrate the same sort of thing into Teams coming up. So I suppose that's just a point of prescience and... Um Show's alignment. Interesting. It's just one of many things I suppose that I've preemptively Forecast. And in particular, worked on and had a working version, which is what's exciting to me.

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