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Remember Google's AI assistant that claimed to be able to make phone calls and book appointments to you. I'm not sure if IIRC, but didn't it turned out to be fake? Still great PR! ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex…

Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone

Posted by Yaniv Leviathan, Principal Engineer and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google A long-standing goal of human-computer intera...

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Mar 19, 2023 · 17:22

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It's paradoxical, I've been interested in AI since my late teens and it was one of the main motivati...

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(1) The way the discussion is fragmented. I think this is very much the fault of character limits i...

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That's definitely true, but then again, this piece of technology is different from everything that c...

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Others say "I don't see why people are concerned about consciousness. Maybe we're also just biologic...

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We've grown accustomed to this fragmented form of non-discourse, but it does avoid the question what...

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