It turns out that Google knew that "people will probably hang up" if they knew that they were talking to an AI robot. So they put lots of effort into deceiving the people receiving the calls. They added ums and mm-hmms and pauses to the speech pattern, and tried to use as natural a voice as possible.
And on top of all that, the problem they are solving is really quite trivial. Is it really so hard or time consuming to call to make your own appointments? How many of these phone calls do most people make in a year anyway? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/google-grapples-with-horrifying-reaction-to-uncanny-ai-tech https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17342414/google-duplex-ai-assistant-voice-calling-identify-itself-update .hc -- PGP fingerprint: EE66 20C7 136B 0D2C 456C 0A4D E9E2 8DEA 00AA 5556 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xE9E28DEA00AA5556 _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
