![]() ![]() So no, he may not have passed the turing test yet, but what is certain is that today the field of possibilities is open, let’s wait to see what duplex is preparing for us. See how google duplex behaves on longer conversations might have been interesting. Finally, the conversations are relatively short.Thus making any semi-open conversation, prey to more abstract concepts could lose google duplex. that of a closed conversation, the subject is well defined, and explore.To be honest, This is by far the most remarkable conversation I have ever heard between a man and a machine.īut here are 2 points to remember, the test was established under specific conditions : Google could easily do away with all of those questions around Duplex by simply answering them, but so far, that’s not happening.But not enough to pass the turing test because unfortunately yes all I read so far presents google duplex as the first AI to pass it.Īs a reminder, the turing test requires a fluid and continuous conversation, without being able to distinguish whether it is a computer or a human on any subject. That’s what you do in a big keynote demo, after all, even though in hindsight, showing the system fail or trying to place a live call would have been even better (remember Steve Job’s Starbucks call?).įor now, we’ll see if we can get more answers, but so far all of our calls and emails have gone unanswered. But it surely only presented the best examples of its tests. ![]() My best guess is that Google didn’t fake these calls. But the company clearly didn’t think through the consequences. A core ‘uncanny valley-ish’ paradox may explain Google’s choice of deception for its Duplex demo: Humans don’t necessarily like speaking to machines. The keynote demo was clearly meant to dazzle - and it did so in the moment because, if it really works, this technology represents the culmination of years of work on machine learning. Google clearly didn’t expect this project to be controversial. ![]() Some of the audio samples do however sound as if the beginning was edited out. My best guess is that Google cut those parts from the conversations, but it’s hard to tell. ![]() What prompted much of the suspicion here is that nobody who answers the calls from the Assistant in Google’s samples identifies their name or the name of the business. Sadly, the rest of Google’s audio samples don’t contain any other clues as to which restaurants were called. We called Hongs Gourmet last night, but the person who answered the phone referred us to her manager, who she told us had left for the day. In the blog post, Google Duplex lead Yaniv Leviathan and engineering manager Matan Kalman posted a picture of themselves eating a meal “booked through a call from Duplex.” Thanks to the wonder of crowdsourcing and a number of intrepid sleuths, we know that this restaurant was Hongs Gourmet in Saratoga, California. So on top of the ethics questions, there are also a few legal questions here. As the ethical criticisms multiplied in the days after the demo, the company quickly said that Duplex will announce itself as an AI agent to the human it’s. California is a two-consent state, so our understanding is that permission to record these calls would have been necessary (unless those calls were made to businesses in a state with different laws). Google has so far declined to disclose the name of the businesses it worked with and whether it had permission to record those calls. The company made the same claims in a blog post (“While sounding natural, these and other examples are conversations between a fully automatic computer system and real businesses.”). So did Google fudge this demo? Here is why people are asking and what we know so far:ĭuring his keynote, Google CEO Sundar Pichai noted multiple times that we were listening to real calls and real conversations (“What you will hear is the Google Assistant actually calling a real salon.”). If you haven’t seen the demo, take a look at this before you read on. As far as I can tell, the same is true for other outlets that have contacted the company. We have reached out to Google with a number of very specific questions about this and have not heard back. ![]()
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