Google Duplex is their coolest (and creepiest) product yet

On May 8th, Google announced the development of a revolutionary new AI product called Google Duplex. This super-powered extension of the Google Assistant will be able to make phone calls on your behalf and speak to real people in a believable voice to make appointments or find out information. The new technology is undoubtedly impressive and groundbreaking, but what new privacy and security concerns arise when we start letting AIs make phone calls and real-life appointments for us? Google calls it "an AI system for accomplishing real-life tasks over the phone," and indeed, the applications for such a technology seem almost limitless. For now, however, Google says that Duplex will be limited to a narrow set of tasks it has been trained to perform.