Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Woman A: “Hello. How can I help you?”Woman B: “Hi. I’m calling to book a woman’s haircut for a client. I’m looking for something on May 3.”Woman A: “Sure. Give me one second — sure. What time are you looking for around?”Woman B: “At 12 p.m.” Most of you will recognize this phone conversation. Not because it was particularly exciting, but because, as was revealed later, neither voices were human. They were AI-generated bots impersonating humans, created by Google. Although this first onstage demo of Google Duplex, as the new technology is called, was pre-recorded, the audience was left in…
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