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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.
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.
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.
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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If I pick up the phone and hear the words "this is Google", I immediately assume it's a scammer who's going to tell me that my Google has a virus and I need to give them my online banking codes to fix it.