Does Google Duplex Scare You? – Behavioral Signals - Conversational AI – Medium

Just in case you have not listened to the telephone calls placed by Google's latest conversational application code-named "Duplex" you should. Google Duplex can place calls and make restaurant reservations or book appointments to hair salons. Speech recognition and spoken dialogue technology has had the capability of successfully completing such tasks for over a decade now. What is exciting and frankly also a bit scary is that for the few (probably cherry-picked) recordings made available at the Google AI blog, the robotic caller is practically indistinguishable from a human. Google Duplex is not the first conversational system that passes the Turing test with flying colors for a few minutes: chatbots have been competing in this arena for years now.