Last week in tech: Google's AI gets chatty and Nerf has new laser tag blasters

Humans have a complicated relationship with artificial intelligence, and it's only getting more complex. Some worry that AI will replace us as the dominant species on the planet, while others envision the digital assistant as a panacea for the tedious tasks we humans hate doing. But, since we don't have those robot butlers just yet, here's a look back at the tech news you may have missed last week while you were toiling away, building a better world for our future robotic overlords. This week's episode includes a first-hand account of what it's like to talk to the Google Duplex AI bot that makes restaurant reservations--while doing a surprisingly convincing human impression (you can read more about that here). We also talk about the latest batch of waterproof gadgets to use by the pool, and fully admit how addicted we are to technology in light of the recent outages for Google Assistant and the group chat app, Slack.