On Fri, May 11, 2018, at 6:41 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > 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 >
I much prefer this smart calling assistant, that serves an actual urgent need! https://gizmodo.com/todays-hero-made-an-ai-that-annoys-telemarketers-for-as-1756344562 -- Nathan of Guardian nat...@guardianproject.info _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: guardian-dev-unsubscr...@lists.mayfirst.org