The problem isn't Duplex or AI. It's Google.Brilliant AI, zero attempt to acknowledge or address the responsibility, ethics, and privacy concerns that come with it. Convo needed to start then and not just for our sake but for Google's.
Google had a tremendous keynote at its annual IO conference. What the company is doing with augmented reality in Maps and continued conversation, multiple actions, and WaveNet for Google Assistant is totally next-generation stuff. It's the kind of stuff that should keep Apple executives up at night figuring out what they need to change about their priorities and people in order to not only catch up, but not be left behind when this becomes the most important platform in history.
We need them to. You and I need them to. And if you want to know why — just look at Duplex.
Deconstructing Duplex
It was the main event. The show stopper. No doubt about it. A neural-network assistant able to interact with — and pass for — human.
It was, from a purely technological point of vie...
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The problem isn't Duplex or AI. It's Google.
