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Google At this year's developer conference, Google unveiled Duplex on the web, an extension of the Duplex virtual assistant that can accomplish simple tasks on the web.
Google’s AI is eerily human, when it works: To test Google Duplex, we used a pair of Google’s Pixel smartphones, which include the company’s virtual assistant by default.
Google told TechCrunch, “By the end of this year, we’ll turn down Duplex on the Web and fully focus on making AI advancements to the Duplex voice technology that helps people most every day.” ...
Google is likely using human callers to create more of that data to train Duplex. So what was originally promoted as an entirely automated system is actually a cyborg-like blend of AI and humans.
Google revealed Google Duplex at Google I/O 2018 as a way to make bookings at restaurants and other locations. At the time, the service was hailed for sounding a whole lot like a human, but ...
Google has shut down Duplex on the Web and has retired its web crawler, DuplexWeb-Google. Google posted a notice of this in this help document saying “Duplex on the Web is deprecated, and will ...
Google Duplex, which debuted at last year's Google I/O, is a remarkably human-like voice assistant that helps you book restaurant reservations over the phone.
When Google unveiled Google Duplex last year at I/O 2018, the brand new Assistant feature looked terrific. It was the kind of futuristic technology nobody else had.
Google quietly announced this evening that Google Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone, will launch in New Zealand as part of a limited pilot to confirm holiday ...
Google Duplex is available to Android phones running Android 5 Lollipop or later. Lollipop launched back in 2014, so if you’re not running it, you really should be.
Google is piloting its Duplex service outside of the US for the first time, with a new trial to confirm holiday opening hours in New Zealand. Starting this week, the company says its AI-powered ...
Google’s assistant then loaded a list of nearby restaurants. For the restaurants that took reservations only over the phone, Google offered to step in and place the call with Duplex.