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🗓️ 11 May 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I think I need to ask, how are you? I just realized before we |
0:07.5 | started that I haven't, I didn't study the ad. I was so determined to study the ad before the ad |
0:13.5 | read, so I wasn't nervous. And now I'm even more nervous than normal. You need to study the ad and |
0:19.4 | watch her. Actually, after, after this week, you saw the Google |
0:24.9 | Duplex demo, right? It was insane. As we say that, my echo just lit up and I was terrified |
0:30.5 | it was about to say something. But no, it was insane. That was absolutely crazy. Yeah, I mean, |
0:36.4 | see, you need to watch her. |
0:38.4 | Yeah, it was, it was, it was certainly something else. |
0:41.5 | Are you bothered by the fact it didn't identify itself as, as a, as a bot? |
0:46.7 | No, I was not, actually. |
0:49.3 | It was, I mean, it's interesting because there, I can certainly see both sides of the argument. |
0:53.3 | I think folks that were a little over the top about what a terrible ethical lapses was. It seemed a little, I can understand that point of view. I'm not sure it's it's that cut and dry. But I don't know, we're not going to, we're not going to have that debate here, although we just probably just generated like 15 emails. |
1:12.0 | Yeah, well, I look forward to reading them. |
1:14.2 | Yeah, the other thing is it's still very far. |
1:16.2 | It's still very far away. |
1:17.2 | I think we'll see what sort of the feedback is and if they sort of adjust their response. |
1:22.3 | But, you know, I think folks didn't realize like there, there are only focusing, for now when it watches, I think they're going to watch only like asking businesses what hours of operation are. |
1:30.3 | And Google's going to run it themselves to update Google Maps. |
1:33.3 | And then they're working on on haircuts and restaurant reservations. |
1:37.4 | And that's it. |
1:37.9 | It's not like a general sort of like talking assistant. |
1:41.7 | That's why the basic assistant is still, you know, it's improved, but it's not, |
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