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From my perspective it seems unfortunate that google has mishandled these questions to the extent that we’re seeing stories saying the demo was fake. Perhaps th
by bnj 8y ago
From my perspective it seems unfortunate that google has mishandled these questions to the extent that we’re seeing stories saying the demo was fake. Perhaps the goal is to generate a narrative that the technology is so astonishing that everyone said it was fake.
- utopcell 8y agoWas the demo that amazing though ? I feel it was full of tiny imperfections. (Not to be a nihilist, it was a big step forward for sure.) Anecdotally, I've been told that there were cases were the human would react by saying "no, you are not a robot, you are human!" when they were told that the caller was a bot, but I haven't been able to verify this.
- TheDong 8y ago> not to be a nihilist You mean pessimist? Or was that not a typo?
- utopcell 8y agoWhat I meant is that I don't want to trivialize the work done
- bloak 8y agoThe demo was not amazing. Take the the original Eliza/Doctor program. Take the "Hello, this is Lenny!" program/recordings. Mix those with some basic speech recognition... The software might be good, better than what other teams would have produced, but I can't really tell that from a couple of carefully selected (and edited) recordings.
- utopcell 8y agoDefinitely much better than the scripted Eliza, but I agree with you. Let's have Duplex negotiate my comcast plan, then we'll talk about true AI!