{"id":5443,"date":"2018-05-08T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.surveyjunkie.com\/blog\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:22:21","slug":"will-google-assistant-become-lifelike-ai-assistant-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surveyjunkie.com\/blog\/will-google-assistant-become-lifelike-ai-assistant-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Google Assistant Become the Most Lifelike AI Assistant to Date?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google could have a new feature that allows your phone to impersonate the human voice. It\u2019s called Duplex, and it sounds creepier than the already creepy AI out there. But it may also be convenient when it comes to dealing with incompetent phone calls that don\u2019t go anywhere. You know\u2026 Like the five minutes you spend dealing with automated messages when you call your bank, before you get disconnected and throw your phone across the room in rage.<\/p>\n<p>That is the intention behind creating this human-sounding robot. They want to make people\u2019s lives easier by handling those phone calls that we have to take, but aren\u2019t particularly personal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Google Assistant Has A Real Phone Call with Unsuspecting People\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.surveyjunkie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BannerInternal_EarnMoney_1-275x300.png\" alt=\"Paid Surveys\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" \/>Google demonstrated Duplex during the I\/O keynote. The Google Assistant performed a variety of simple routine calls, like scheduling a hair stylist or making restaurant reservations. They were on the phone with real humans, who did not seem to suspect that the person they were talking to was in fact a super intelligent robot. Google\u2019s assistant went so far as to add random verbal fillers like \u201cumm\u201d and \u201cahhs\u201d in the middle of their thoughts. And according to the company, they\u2019ve already generated hundreds of similar interactions throughout the course of Duplex\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Duplex&#8217;s First Stop? Customer Service Centers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Duplex will first be applied to automatic customer service centers. That means no more groaning every time you call your bank, insurance, or power company and get an obnoxious and incompetent automated response. \u201cFor such tasks, the system makes the conversational experience as natural as possible, allowing people to speak normally, like they would to another person, without having to adapt to a machine,\u201d reads the release.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to mimic a human voice is certainly a remarkable feat. But it\u2019s also sort of terrifying. To assuage fears, Google has mentioned that this AI bot won\u2019t be able to ask random questions that sway from its territory. \u201cDuplex can only carry out natural conversations after being deeply trained in such domains,\u201d the release notes. \u201cIt cannot carry out general conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you feel about AI? Take the survey below. Then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveyjunkie.com\/?a=826&amp;s1=su_will-google-assistant-become-lifelike-ai-assistant-date\">sign up for Survey Junkie<\/a> and get paid to share your opinions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data Source: <\/strong>engadget.com<\/p>\n<div data-opinionstage-embed-url=\"https:\/\/www.opinionstage.com\/api\/v1\/widgets\/emily_king\/artificial-intelligence\/code.json?comments=false&#038;sharing=true&#038;recommendations=false&#038;width=\" style=\"display: none; visibility: hidden;\"><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveyjunkie.com\/?a=826&amp;s1=sh_will-google-assistant-become-lifelike-ai-assistant-date\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #339966; text-decoration: underline;\">Take Surveys. Get Paid. Start Here.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google could have a new feature that allows your phone to impersonate the human voice. 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