Artificial intelligence has a new challenge: Whether and how to alert people who may not know they’re talking to a robot. But the real people in those calls didn’t seem to be aware they were talking to a machine. And while Google’s demonstration highlighted the benign uses of conversational robots, what happens when spammers and scammers get hold of them? Google CEO Sundar Pichai elicited cheers on Tuesday as he demonstrated the new technology, called Duplex, during the company’s annual conference for software developers. Google didn’t return a request for comment Wednesday on how it plans to seek the consent of people called by its bots.

Source: National Post May 09, 2018 20:26 UTC