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Discussion on: Google Duplex: Has AI Gone Too Far?

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Miguel Queiroz

I believe that AI voice is pre recorded/ or samples of pre recorded words/sentenses. I dont believe its true AI voice there, sorry I don't buy it...
Otherwise why not having those voices already available on our google assistants?

On the other hand, there is no need to be afraid of fake booking because the person booking will have to pre pay the appointment eventually... So.. for the salon it does not matter if its fake or not if it received the money anyway...

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rhymes • Edited

The article clearly says that the AI is trained just for a very small set of scenarios:

One of the key research insights was to constrain Duplex to closed domains, which are narrow enough to explore extensively. Duplex can only carry out natural conversations after being deeply trained in such domains. It cannot carry out general conversations.

I don't think they are lying, it would be a very bad business move ;-)

It will take a long time before we'll have it on our phones, there are too many nuances. Booking a meal is not the same as booking a doctor's appointment for example. And they also have to deal with all the languages we speak.

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Jochem Stoel

No, @miguelqueiroz is right. These are not (entirely) synthesized voices. I don't buy it either. +1 for noticing that, Miguel. :)

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rhymes

I'm not sure I get your point.

Either Google is lying on the world stage which though not impossible is highly unlikely or I'm not sure what you're trying to say

Either way we can't prove at which stage of development the technology is, in the meantime we're going to get John Legend's voice in the assistant techcrunch.com/2018/05/08/google-a...

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Miguel Queiroz

They don't say in the talk that the voice you hear is AI, they just shown what they wanted it to look like, or what they vision to do. I guess..

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rhymes

Ok so you think they just showed us the end goal instead of what the actual technology can do right now? Well, I think we'll never know then :-)

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Faizan Hussain Rabbani

I don't think the demo was scripted. It was true, because CEO said it couple of times that they have several recordings like these that they would like to show.

Google Duplex is in advanced stages of development and we might be able to experience it in 2-3 years.