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Andy Meek
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Most people, even if they don’t know anything about the norms of journalism, are aware that reporters are expected to identify themselves as such to sources. That there’s something … shady, let’s say, about a reporter attempting to get information out of someone by pretending to be an ordinary member of the public.
The dynamic instantly changes, as it should, when someone realizes they’re dealing with a member of the Fourth Estate. Which is one reason why Google’s creepily human-sounding assistant Duplex it unveiled Tuesday at its I/O developer conference -- an assistant that’s complete with what Google calls “speech disfluencies” like the hmms and umms of normal human conversation -- has already been the focus of so much attention and headlines.
Bottom line: Google has made a leap forward in developing a computing tool that can perform some of the menial tasks of daily life -- booking a table at a restaurant, scheduling a haircut -- and in the process sound so close to a human doing it that you can’t really tell the difference.
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Is Google crossing a line with new AI that pretends to be human? originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 9 May 2018 at 11:19:53 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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