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Google Duplex aims to call to book appointments without revealing it is a computer

  1. 2018-05-10 at 2:01 AM UTC
    #1
    Soyboy African Astronaut [relevantly rival my dehydroretinol]
    https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html

    It's a little scary and across the line for computers to be calling up real people to make appointments for their users.

    I bet this technology is going to get majorly fucked with by humans who earn their livings answering the phone.
  2. 2018-05-10 at 2:05 AM UTC
    #2
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html

    It's a little scary and across the line for computers to be calling up real people to make appointments for their users.

    I bet this technology is going to get majorly fucked with by humans who earn their livings answering the phone.

    I saw people posting about this in our work HipChat today. I personally have been pissed my google home doesn’t so this for a while now. Ha. I’m always forgetting and telling it to call people.

    Also- despite the same thing already happening previously with Amazon Alexa during a Super Bowl we, apparently during the Apple Keynote everyone was tweeting about their Apple HomePods freaking out and talking back to the TVs. How did they not think to figure that out before he keynote??
  3. 2018-05-10 at 2:53 AM UTC
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    HampTheToker African Astronaut
    Google has invested heavily in AI and machine learning for many years, and now that hard work has paid off as they bring useful AI and efficient machine learning to anyone with a capable device. Assistant, Home, Duplex, Lens (pushed to OnePlus users recently, suck it bitches), and even the Pixel 2 phones have a secondary processor dedicated to image processing and machine learning tasks.

    It's come a long way, that's for sure. Personally, it's use in autonomous vehicles is more exciting than Duplex or Assistant. I don't care if Duplex can make calls in Morgan Freeman's voice. It'll never be cooler than motherfuckin self-driving cars.
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