> Google is kind of saying they can tentatively pass the Turing Test with phones This is quite a bold claim, and one I'm not sure they're making. Their promo m

> Google is kind of saying they can tentatively pass the Turing Test with phones This is quite a bold claim, and one I'm not sure they're making. Their promo material suggests that it's limited to quite well-defined domains where conversations aren't really that open-ended, and we haven't seen how it'll perform in the real world. Relatedly, I don't think headlines like "Google Duplex beat the Turing test: Are we doomed?" [0] are helpful at all. It's disappointingly low-effort clickbait where instead there's plenty of interesting discussion to be had (should machines have to identify themselves as such? What about their use of pauses and fillers?). [0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-duplex-beat-the-turing-test-are-we-doomed/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-duplex-beat-the-turing-...