Google Opens Its Human-Sounding Duplex AI To Public Testing (cnet.com) 36
Google is moving ahead with Duplex, the stunningly human-sounding artificial intelligence software behind its new automated system that places phone calls on your behalf with a natural-sounding voice instead of a robotic one. From a report: The search giant said Wednesday it's beginning public testing of the software, which debuted in May and which is designed to make calls to businesses and book appointments. Duplex instantly raised questions over the ethics and privacy implications of using an AI assistant to hold lifelike conversations for you. Google says its plan is to start its public trial with a small group of "trusted testers" and businesses that have opted into receiving calls from Duplex. Over the "coming weeks," the software will only call businesses to confirm business and holiday hours, such as open and close times for the Fourth of July. People will be able to start booking reservations at restaurants and hair salons starting "later this summer."
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One more reason to not answer any calls not in your contact list.
Chaps my ass that Android Droid Turbo doesn't have a feature to send ALL calls not in the contacts to voice mail and to easily block them.
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Duplex, and other syste
Excellent AI (Score:3, Funny)
Duplex instantly raised questions over the ethics and privacy implications of using an AI assistant to hold lifelike conversations for you
That's some amazing AI if it's raising questions about its own use
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That's some amazing AI if it's raising questions about its own use
I think this will be another "Glasshole Moment" for Google.
Maybe the technology is interesting . . . but it will be very annoying to too many folks.
Phonesex Chatbot When? (Score:4, Funny)
Tay 2.0 (Score:2)
Tay 2.0 incoming, in
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Google aren't stupid enough to allow their AI to be trained on Twitter.
If I learned one thing from the age of modems... (Score:4, Funny)
Never go Full Duplex.
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Waypoint not destination (Score:2)
Who wants to participate in a betting pool as to when this tech will be used in commercially available sexbots?
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Google Opens Its AI for Public Spying (Score:2)
Google provides these services so that people will help them build their panopticon. I can't wait for Google to have an extensive speech corpus which they can use to impersonate anyone...
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As anti-Google trolling goes, this is weak. They own YouTube-- how much more extensive a corpus do you think they hope to get?
Youtube videos are uploaded by users who know what they're doing. These voice samples will be captures from unwitting "users", who don't. I note you didn't log in. Did you know your argument was idiotic when you made it, or are you a coward all day, every day? Why don't you just go ahead and tell us which of your other comments I shot down, which made you upset enough to look through my posting history to try to find some other comment you could argue down? Pity about your failure, failure.
How long before this is used for robocalls? (Score:1)
The crappy recordings are easy to spot and hang up on at this point. If they can set this up to naturally respond to a human on the other end of the line, it'll greatly increase the efficiency of the robocalling businesses. What a terrific way to waste someone's time! Amazing technology!
Google Glass (Score:2)
Duplex please call Moe's Bar and... (Score:2)
Lying headline (Score:3)
It's not a "public" test in any sense of the word. It's a test between whitelisted earlier adopters on both sides of the call.
By that definition, I suppose my bank account routing numbers are "public" because several select institutions know them and communicate them to each other on my behalf.
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I should point out bank account numbers are public on the bottom of a check... but I cannot recall the last time I used one of those.
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Are they getting close (Score:2)