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Episode 151 — Two by Twos

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 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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