Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
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Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#2Combined with https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-inte...
(the fake Obama video tool) it's going to be tough to verify that you're talking to the real consenting person vs a machine.
Identity theft is going to get a lot more interesting...
Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#3I don't think there is a remote possibility of this happening in the near future (10-20 years). I work in one of the best deep learning research groups in the world. We were discussing this. And the first question one of my friends asked was- "so the Google assistant knows how to book appointments between 10 and 12pm". Meaning, if you change even a few conditions in the request which is not present in the training data, the call won't go as expected.
However, there is a risk of the AI manipulating us. This is only due to the mistakes by Google engineers not because of the AI becoming "smart".
Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#4It will certainly make scammer's jobs easier.
Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#5Showed the Booking AI built for Google Assistant to my Barber today he was cracking up
Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#6I agree with the author. Googles new appointment setting functionality is pretty cool but what if it gains the ability to reason. It will be able to start writing novels and putting writers out of business. It could start negotiating treaties with foreign leaders and inadvertently cause world war 3.
I’m just not sure that Google thought through all the possibilities before unleashing the ability to make haircut appointments.
Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#7Jokes on you, I already don't have a sense of identity. Not rly a joke.
Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#8This sounds overblown. I don't think it's that different to having a (human) assistant booking a haircut or a table on your behalf. Just make Duplex introduce itself as "XXX's assistant" and leave it at that.
Sure, the article is about the assistant (theoretically) using the user's own voice, so... don't do that? This would be similar to hiring a human assistant who is also a voice impersonator and saying it's you, but saying "undermine our sense of identity" to describe that sounds like a bit too much.
Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#9Well..We made Google Duplex for businesses in 6 months with the team of 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17037469
Re: Google’s new conversational AI could eventually undermine our sense of identity
#10If those demonstrations actually represent what the system is capable of, I think people here are way underestimating what an achievement that is.
Even though it’s operating in an extremely limited domain, this is the first time that I’m aware of that a computerized voice can have a natural conversation with a human about _any topic at all_ where it’s not immediately obvious that it’s a computer.
That’s a gigantic leap forward.