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Google's Duplex AI Robot Will Warn That Calls Are Recorded (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: On Thursday, the Alphabet Inc. unit shared more details on how the Duplex robot-calling feature will operate when it's released publicly, according to people familiar with the discussion. Duplex is an extension of the company's voice-based digital assistant that automatically phones local businesses and speaks with workers there to book appointments. At Google's weekly TGIF staff meeting on Thursday, executives gave employees their first full Duplex demo and told them the bot would identify itself as the Google assistant. It will also inform people on the phone that the line is being recorded in certain jurisdictions, the people said.
Hi, This is Google Duplex. Please note this call is being recorded.
Hi, This is Google Duplex. Please
Hi, This is Google
No one wants to listen to a precanned message.
Pity all States do not.
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Ernest Hemingway
It will warn when a call is being recorded, because there are stricter laws about that. But what about everything else? It still phones home with everything to have Google's servers do the voice recognition, everything being spoken. Let's all install corporate and government bugs in our homes. Sounds great to me.
There's nothing wrong with your credit card but we would like to offer you a lower interest rate anyway. Press 1 to speak to a representative or press any other goddamn key to also speak to a representative. If you want to be removed, we'll ignore the request and continue harassing you anyway. Because there's sweet sweet scam money to be made.
Complaints about AIs "recording" things will come back to haunt us. When the day comes that someone like Larry Ellis is uploaded into a machine, will it always have to announce that it is recording? What about when we finally get the ability to augment our memory with electronic implants?
We need to figure out how to embrace this into our system now or face discrimination later. We need to clear the path for augmenting ourselves so that we can keep up.
One approach that could satisfy all is to just blanket label all recordings made without permission as hearsay - i.e. treat one form of a person's memory (tech enabled recordings) as no more admissable than the other (unaltered biological memory enabled recordings). Removing the requirement that "person" be limited to a person's natural physical body or that "home" be limited to within the physical walls of a home would help a lot of legal situations that have evolved that our founders could never have thought of. We just need an interpretation expansion to match how technology is expanding us.
How does it know the call is being recorded?
When this tech is available real-time for a disabled person will that person be forced to identify themselves as being disabled to avoid "creeping out" the person on the other end? Ridiculous. Screw every tech blogger and twitter schmuck who thinks they were clever for masturbating online in public to their own insecurities about this demo. Good thing yanny vs laurel came along to distract the squirrels with something new.
Minimal compliance with the various state laws about recording phone calls isn't enough. The bigger problem is that the tech is so good that people can not recognize when they are talking to a computer. In a weird way its like the problem with electric cars being too quiet - there are no cues to alert bystanders whats going on. The solution for electric cars was to require they emit not unpleasant warning sounds that alert pedestrians to their presence. We need something like that for human-mimicry, require that non-human voices have some sort of distortion that makes them clearly identifiable as non-human.
Maybe what Google really needs to do is build a decent calendar app...
Honor the national do not call list?
Rick B.
When I get a call and realize there isn't a real, live, ACTUAL person on the other end, I simply hang up. I am paying for the airtime, and reserve the right not to waste it talking to an electronic lackey. I don't suffer fools gladly even when they are living and breathing, and the same species as I am; I am NOT going to tolerate someone essentially calling me, then putting me on hold to wait around to talk to them, which is what would inevitably end up happening, since Google's AI is nowhere near good enough to hold a rational conversation with an intelligent person... as demonstrated by the fact that the demo was all faked. If it were that good, they wouldn't have to have faked it. They want to convince us that no human intervention would be required, but that's obviously bullshit.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
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...by hanging up as soon as I can identify them.
Why even bother doing this? Who even CONSIDERS talking to a robot that is recording you? A data-harvesting, behavioral-analyzing Google piece of shit that suddenly interrupts your day? to enrich Google?
What kind of lazy, do-nothing idle-chit-chat-with-robot shitheads does Google hire? Who thought this was a good idea