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There's almost no feasible way to do this demo live: Google had to get permission of the participants to make and use the recording. California is a two-party c

There's almost no feasible way to do this demo live: Google had to get permission of the participants to make and use the recording. California is a two-party consent state for recording calls. Beyond just recording you'd have to get publicity permission to broadcast such a call to the world as marketing for your products. If they got all this lined up in advance, they'd be accused of rigging the demo anyway, so what's the point of taking the risk and gaining little. The alternative would have been using a Google employee to play the part of the business, but this too would have subjected them to accusations of rigging. It's not like people are going to forget about the demo if it never materializes. Google has a lot more to lose than gain from faking something this high profile. I can't think of a good explanation for him wording his misgivings with such uncharitable language. I never had the feeling that he hated or resented Google quite this much.

yoz-y 8y ago
This raises another point. To what extent is Google recording the calls made by Duplex? In France you have to pre-announce any recording before the call and I suppose in many other countries it is the same.
Twisell 8y ago
You could have put someone on both on stage and make him interact with duplex. Of course it could also have been staged but more difficult. By picking a successful recorded try you tend to obfuscate failure rate. As opposite Apple often demonstrate feature on stage with real call to outside people or live Siri command. And as with real tech it sometimes fail. They always have a backup hardware and they sometimes use it if the first try is a fail.
Angostura 8y ago
> There's almost no feasible way to do this demo live: Google had to get permission of the participants to make and use the recording. Apart from - "We'd like to call you next wednesday to demo some phone technology - it'll just be a normal booking call, but it will be recorded and go out live on stage. Is that OK?'

yoz-y 8y ago

This raises another point. To what extent is Google recording the calls made by Duplex? In France you have to pre-announce any recording before the call and I suppose in many other countries it is the same.

Twisell 8y ago

You could have put someone on both on stage and make him interact with duplex. Of course it could also have been staged but more difficult. By picking a successful recorded try you tend to obfuscate failure rate. As opposite Apple often demonstrate feature on stage with real call to outside people or live Siri command. And as with real tech it sometimes fail. They always have a backup hardware and they sometimes use it if the first try is a fail.

Angostura 8y ago

> There's almost no feasible way to do this demo live: Google had to get permission of the participants to make and use the recording. Apart from - "We'd like to call you next wednesday to demo some phone technology - it'll just be a normal booking call, but it will be recorded and go out live on stage. Is that OK?'