A month and change after I/O, Google convenes a meeting of a few small groups of journalists at an upscale Thai restaurant in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It’s an unusual locale for one of the world’s largest companies. The tables are cleared out to make room for nine chairs, in three rows of three, facing […]
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Watch out Google Duplex: Microsoft just demoed its own AI having a full-on phone call
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Google Duplex isn’t the only big dog in AI Town.
The artificial intelligence-powered assistant that can, in certain circumstances, have a real back and forth conversation with a human, has found a bit of competition in Microsoft’s XiaoIce (that’s a capital I not a lowercase L, and it’s pronounced shao-ice).
Microsoft announced back in April that its chatbot — popular in China — could speak and listen simultaneously (known as full duplexing), but didn’t provide a demo at the time. That has changed.
The Verge’s Tom Warren published a video to YouTube on Tuesday showing a demo of the AI in action at a London eventAccording to The Verge, the video shows XiaoIce talking with what is reportedly a real person over the phone. Read more…
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View More Watch out Google Duplex: Microsoft just demoed its own AI having a full-on phone callDoes Google’s Duplex violate two-party consent laws?
Google’s Duplex, which calls businesses on your behalf and imitates a real human, ums and ahs included, has sparked a bit of controversy among privacy advocates. Doesn’t Google recording a person’s voice and sending it to a datacenter for analysis violate two-party consent law, which requires everyone in a conversation to agree to being recorded? The answer isn’t immediately clear, and Google’s silence isn’t helping.
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Google Duplex likes noodles. And, apparently, not telling servers that it’s an artificial intelligence.
Or anyway that’s what we learned when we spoke with the staff of the restaurant that is almost certainly the one the AI recently called for a dinner reservation.
For the uninitiated, Google dropped jaws earlier this month at its annual I/O developer conference with a demonstration of Duplex, an artificial intelligence that can apparently — in some situations — make entire phone calls on your behalf. While the example provided to the gathered crowd involved a haircut appointment, the company posted another recording to its blog that dealt with a dinner reservation. Read more…
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Parody of Google Duplex phone call shows the true, terrifying future of AI
Google held its developer’s conference earlier this week, wowing and shocking the world with a demo of Google Duplex. The new AI voice assistant can make phone calls on your behalf, and it’s shockingly believable.
While some raised the question o…
Google’s tricking us with human-sounding AI, and we’re scared
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It was the “mm-hmm” heard round the internet.
At Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote talk in Mountain View, California, CEO Sundar Pichai introduced the gathered developers to Google Duplex — a version of Google Assistant that will make actual phone calls for you and, in the process, trick the person on the other end of the line into thinking she’s talking to a real-life human. Yes, verbal mm-hmm ticks included.
While currently limited to certain tasks like booking appointments, we shouldn’t expect AIs like Duplex to remain that way. As Google Principal Scientist Greg Corrado made clear at a Wednesday keynote addressing the future of artificial intelligence, what we saw Tuesday is only the beginning. Read more…
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Google just killed the phone call. Well, at least a certain type.
At its annual developer conference, Google I/O, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wowed those in attendance with a demonstration of Google Duplex, a chatty AI voice assistant that is able to make phone calls — and have full conversations — on your behalf.
Pichai announced the new feature Tuesday to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. People were, to put it mildly, impressed.
When the robots take over, we can at least take comfort in the memories of all the haircuts Google booked for us #GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/txQqJjiguf
— Karissa Bell (@karissabe) May 8, 2018 Read more…
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