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May 7, 2019 05:55 pm GMT

A year later and Google Duplex is somehow lamer

Not all things get better with time. 

It's been an entire year since the world was wowed by Google Duplex, the chatty AI that was supposedly able to make entire calls on your behalf. At this year's I/O developer conference Google CEO Sundar Pichai once again took the stage to deliver some Duplex-related news. The big reveal? It's somehow gotten lamer.

"We are moving beyond voice," Pichai bragged to the crowd — apparently forgetting that the entire raison d'etre of Duplex was that it could make calls on your behalf. 

So what, exactly, does the new Duplex do? Well, according to the demo shown on stage at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, it now serves as a fancy online autocomplete for web forms.  Read more...

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