Google Assistant making calls pretending to be human not only without disclosing that it's a bot, but adding "ummm" and "aaah" to deceive the human on the other end with the room cheering it... horrifying. Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.
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This isn't the 3rd grade science fair; this is Google. No demos, no gawking over cool tech without privacy/societal aspects being considered/built into design. It should be the first question, not let's wildly cheer first and then try to put some social impacts stuff as add-on.
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While you have some fair points, I find the extreme reaction over the top. Lots of people were similarly “horrified” at the deception that early movies, then talkies, then color(!) movies brought. Any medium is deceptive.
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Would you prefer fake typing-on-keyboard sounds, or some beeps-and-boops? These sounds not only make the conversation more natural, but they give the system time to process the conversation, and weave in disparate types of voice responses, while sounding more natural.pic.twitter.com/M7Gf6zfRNo
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What makes this "straight-up deception" as opposed to another step in the decades long goal of natural sounding TTS that is pleasant to deal with? Microsoft Sam conveyed lexical information well enough 20 years ago, but people seem to prefer dealing with more human devices.
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