Or anyway that's what we learned when we spoke with the staff of the restaurant that is almost certainly the one the AI recently called for a dinner reservation.*
For the uninitiated, Google dropped jaws earlier this month at its annual I/O developer conference with a demonstration of Duplex, an artificial intelligence that can apparently — in some situations — make entire phone calls on your behalf. While the example provided to the gathered crowd involved a haircut appointment, the company posted another recording to its blog that dealt with a dinner reservation.* Read more...