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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by atonse on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:43PM (#17024850)
This is awesome, awesome tech. I just showed it to a bunch of people in my office.

But at the same time, the last two years have shown us that a lot of technology is being very effectively abused to misinform at a geopolitical level, and we as a society need to better understand or regulate this stuff for sure. Lives are at stake.

That said, I'd never say that Google shouldn't work on this. It's amazing. We just need to better understand not just how it can be used, but also how it can be abused.

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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:30PM (#17025353)
It's awesome tech, sure.

But it's also "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

They shouldn't've.

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