https://www.newscientist.com/article/2168479-googles-human-like-phone-calls-are-a-clever-but-nasty-trick/

He played two examples in which the system made an appointment for a haircut and phoned a restaurant to make a reservation. Unlike the robotic phone calls we are all used to, Duplex does an uncanny impression of human speech, complete with ums and ahs and well-timed pauses in …

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