There are a lot of really cool announcements coming out of the Google AI conference , include an impressive autocomplete scheme on Gmail that ’ll save you the crusade of ever having to personalize messages to your closest friends again .
Another announcement has rendered John Legend wholly unnecessary , according to Chrissy Teigen , John Legend ’s married woman .
But there ’s one demonstration that either has everybody extremely excited and screaming " oh god , the golem uprising is fall out the right way now " .
Google bear witness off an update of their Google Assistant , and it ’s pretty unbelievable to watch .
In the demonstration , the new system was able to call a eating place and a hairstylist and Good Book a table and an date , without the human on the other ending of the descent ever screw they were speaking to an algorithm .
First , Google Assistant dial up a stylist and booked an fitting " on behalf of a client " . When the human stylist said that they did n’t have a free appointment for 12 pm , that ’s when things catch interesting .
In an incredibly tranquil conversation , the Assistant calls up the hairdresser and talks just like a human would . Other than a abbreviated moment later on in the conversation , you ’d never know anything out of the ordinary is happen .
The Google Assistant even adds in umms and ahs to make itself appear more human . When order there are no appointments for the time " the customer " had requested , the AI seamlessly bid up choice and even adds in several intellection noises in Holy Order to make it appear more raw .
The whole conversation is truly , surprisingly … ordinary .
The demo go on to call a eating place . Despite the restaurant faculty mishearing the AI , Google ’s Duplex technology manages to keep the conversation on track , showing off some unbelievable leaps in language understanding in the process .
This video register a seperate call to a eating place , which is nigh indistinguishable from a conversation between two human race .
" The amazing thing is that Assistant can actually empathize the nuances of conversation , " Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained at the league .
" We ’ve been working on this technology for many years . It ’s address Google Duplex . It land together natural language understanding , deep learning , text to speech . "
As if this is n’t all telling enough , once it ’s booked the appointment :
" The Assistant can then give you substantiation that your appointment has been reserve for you . "
Google will conduct tests of the Duplex Assistant in the summertime , but they have big plans for it to automatise annoying task .
" Instead of take a shit a phone call , the user simply interacts with the Google Assistant , " they wrotein a web log post . " The call take place whole in the setting without any substance abuser involvement . "
