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Google Duplex, the Human-Sounding Phone Bot, Comes to the Pixel

“Uhm,” said the female voice. “Can I book a table for tomorrow?” The question came not from a person, but software called Duplex developed by Google to make phone calls. Before the end of the year, some of the company’s users will be able to direct the bot to call restaurants and book tables on their behalf.

In a demonstration last week, Duplex smartly handled questions from a Google employee…

Google Says Its Human-Sounding Robot Will Identify Itself On Phone Calls by Buzzfeed

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Google told BuzzFeed News that its fresh human-sounding artificial intelligence–powered assistant Duplex, which is capable of carrying on conversations with unsuspecting humans, will ship “with disclosure built in” but did not elaborate on how that disclosure would work.

A demonstration of Google Duplex — an extension of Google Assistant that sounds remarkably human— making restaurant…

Human-sounding Google Assistant sparks ethics questions

Fri, May 11, 2018 – 5:50 AM

San Francisco

THE new Google digital assistant converses so naturally it may seem like a real person.

The unveiling of the natural-sounding robo-assistant by the tech giant this week wowed some observers, but left others fretting over the ethics of how the human-seeming software might be used.

Google chief Sundar Pichai played a recording of the Google Assistant…