Google Duplex The Future!

I know I’m late with this but here it is.

So it’s nice seeing many new features to Google assistant to make your life easier. Like:

new reminders

routines

predictive things

Google Duplex will make it that you never have to make a call to service businesses.

For an example: Let’s say you want to get a haircut on Friday around noon.

And this place doesn’t do online reservations and you have to do it by calling them.

What do you want to do?

Ask Google Assistant: “Hey Assistant make an appoint for my haircut on Friday around noon”.

It will actually call that hair salon pretend to be a human, talk to the person and get the reservation for you.

It is so good that Google passed the Turing Test.

The ability to talk to humans in such a human-like voice is both incredible and a bit terrifying.

It also makes Siri look really bad.

All the right inflections, pauses and the way it talks is very convincing.

If I was or if you were on that call it would be very difficult to say: ” That is a robot”.

The ability to use pauses and phrases like:

mm-hmm

umm

is truly incredible. It doesn’t have to do it. But it does.

It makes it specifically to mimic a human voice.

Also to convince the human that they’re speaking to a human also.

Any accent or unusual questions, it will still finish the job.

How do we feel about this achievement?

First of all Google with the machine learning, artificial intelligence and the natural language processing and all.

This all was created by listening to our voices to make Google Duplex so good.

Like the first ones that were made it would say for an example:

“Hey, I am Katie would you like to go on a cruise”. And you ask it one question and it completely freezes.

But now in 2018, we get the AI features that could make our lives easier.

Should We Be Worried About This?

Lately, I have seen so many reactions on Twitter and on some videos people saying: ” This is a terrible idea.

And I understand it a lot. People saying you got to tell the other person it’s speaking to a robot.

But on the other hand, if you’re coming from Google’s point of view you have to mimic a human as closely as possible to make it work.

If you actually want the other person to pick up and respond to you and appoint a reservation.

These people talk to people every day and if they get a call and it just says “Hi I am a Google Assistant” they’re probably going to hang up.

You actually have to seemingly blend in with Google to their job and the assistant to actually assist you.

From our end, all the “umm” and pauses also sounding so human-like when it’s not is just so uncanny.

Back in the day, we would say: “Look I want the assistant to tell what the weather is going to be tomorrow” and sound like a human.

Now the goal is, look I want the assistant to just make a hair appointment for me on Friday I don’t really have time to call.

So it comes to make us think what’s next?

“I want it to write my blog and edit youtube videos for me”

“I want it to run a company”

My final thoughts on Google Duplex are this:

I don’t know if people care that they are talking to a robot

I think there will be people on both sides

What are we going to do with it next?

How far is it going to go?

Feel free to write down your own thoughts in the comment section below.

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