Google's AI Assistant Can Now Make Real Phone Calls

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Published 2018-05-09

Google showed off its Assistant having a humanlike conversation with someone at a hair salon and a small restaurant. Google CEO Sundar Pichai explains Google Duplex at Google I/O.

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All Comments (21)

@maddywoomy3745 6 years ago

Perfect for introverts that need 5 minutes to mentally prepare themselves to make a phone call. Just like me!
@jim0084 6 years ago

Sigh... The robot has better social skills than I do :'-(
@krishdesign-strategy-voice1944 2 years ago

Sundar: "between 10 and 12" AI: asks for 12 instead
@aliyafrederik4130 1 year ago

5 years later, nothing 😂
@markisbond 6 years ago

Me: "Hey Google, tell my wife that I can't make dinner with her parents." Google: "OK. Telling your wife now".... Google: "Next time, you tell her yourself."
@JamesBlonde95 6 years ago

What would be really cool would be if it could recognize a foreign accent, ask what their native language is, then start speaking in that language to avoid confusion.
@Jai_Shree_Ram____469 2 years ago

me--"Google call my father". After calling Google to my father --"Hello dad " Father --"what happens to your vocie"
@lileinstein104 1 year ago

I actually had Google duplex call me asking the business hours of my store once. It was only after I hung up that I realised what had just happened. So bloody cool. In the moment I had no idea.
@littlelamp100 6 years ago

eventually both sides will be AI and there will be a bunch of robots talking to each other :v
@65-adityamhaiskar92 2 years ago

Alexander graham bell be like: am I a joke to you? 😂😂
@tekmepikcha6830 2 years ago

3 years later and we're still waiting for all these amazing features 👀🙄
@DtoTha 1 year ago

Been almost 5 years and this is still not possible
@tron3entertainment 6 years ago

"I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle."
@gunjeetsingh90 6 years ago

One salon worker and one restaurant worker are waking up to realize they spoke to a bot
@Karan-nq6ew 2 years ago

Would be funny if the person on the other end would just start giving random commands or make fun of the AI
@tamildubbedmovies2492 1 year ago

Waiting for this update google.
@viratkohli945 2 years ago

The way Sundar Sir explains is just awesome
@root4089 2 years ago

Here in my phone: Google is embarrassing me when I proudly ask her with " Hey Google". The response rate is almost 1/10.
@CLSMAG 2 years ago

In 2021 : My google Assistant wakeup without asking him/her.
@rothebro4728 2 years ago

Seems like calling feature doesn't work in India 🇮🇳 !