INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
55 minutes on the video from Google's Keynote
We recommend you watch it as it's amazing.Now, we know that keynote videos are the Instagram photos of the tech world: what you see is
highly polished, carefully selected and often vastly different to what you can expect in reality but Duplex could be really useful.What is
It phones up and asks for the information it needs.From a tech perspective, Google Duplex uses a recurrent neural network (RNN) built using
TensorFlow Extended (TFX)
What RNNs like the one powering Duplex can do is process sequential, contextual information, and that makes them well suited to machine
learning, language modelling and speech recognition.When you make a request, the Google Assistant will hand it over to Google Duplex to
then call restaurants on your behalf
available and decide whether those times fit your criteria
If not, the Google app would call another restaurant
slots and agree which one would be best.The key here is that this is all happening in the background
makes a deal with my AI without asking either of us first Will there be a version with a croaky voice we can use to call in sick More
Right now, our personal digital assistants are more about the digital than the assistance: you can ask them to turn up the lights or tune
simple customer service question or find out why our broadband is on the blink again.Or, you know, it could go bad and refuse to open the
pod bay doors.2001 jokes aside, we can easily imagine Duplex-style agents tricking us into answering the kind of robocalls we currently
way to do it.When can I get Google DuplexGoogle is set to start testing the feature in a public beta via Google Assistant at some point in
the summer, although an exact release date or the regions it'll be available in have yet to be announced.QdBqCPMxZjbMomWs4qDmve.jpg#
