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Studying the impact of technology on how we live. Researcher at Institute For The Future @iftf. Author: Calm Technology. Former Fellow @BKCHarvard + @CivicMIT.
May 9, 2018 10 tweets 4 min read
Quick thread on the @GoogleAI’s Duplex from a Calm Tech UX perspective. It’s impressive and a great step forward, though perhaps not as groundbreaking as some believe. Here’s why... 1/10

ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex… From @GoogleAI’s write-up: “Duplex can only carry out natural conversations after being deeply trained in such domains. It cannot carry out general conversations.” In other words, Duplex is a good example of applied “Narrow AI”. 2/10