“Is this another example of tech privilege, where those in the know can offload boring conversations they don’t want to have to a machine, while those receiving the calls (most likely low-paid service workers) have to deal with some idiot robot?” https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17334658/google-ai-phone-call-assistant-duplex-ethical-social-implications …
And also, one has to realize that robo-conversations will do to oral language what SEO has already done to written language. People will mimic machines! Actual humans will start talking like dumb robot chatterboxes. All because some headless genius wanted to train AI. :(