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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:39AM (#17029316)
> Many organizations are providing the same services and could easily adopt a common “API.”

It's not in the interest of those organizations to adopt a common API. Everyone wants to suck in data and be the platform; nobody wants to give data away.

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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by freyir on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:54PM (#17044200)
But that's the reason why Duplex is interesting, and why there's a grain of truth in what ZainRiz is saying:

Humans have settled on a de facto API for scheduling appointments. It uses the telephone as its interface, speech as its medium, and Duplex is exploiting it.

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Re:Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World ... by Piskvorrr on Thursday May 10, 2018 @07:01AM (#17037813)
...but Google is one of the giants that could pull that off and become The Platform.
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