Wired points out for us to remember those Pixel Buds that Google showed off last year. Remember? Those earbuds that were supposed to give you real-time translation for 40 languages? How did that all go? The author of this editorial thinks that Duplex, which we showed you yesterday, is more show than go. And he makes some good points.




Duplex also has the feel of an idea created in an echo chamber. The two leads on the project, Yaniv Leviathan and Yossi Matias, are both men with long and distinguished careers at Google’s R&D centre in Israel. Because hey, wouldn’t it be cool if an artificial intelligence could do all that dull work you normally ask your real-life, human assistant to do? Yes, but it would also be cool if you could stop confusing black people with gorillas.

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