[acdha]

> Google is kind of saying they can tentatively pass the Turing Test with phones

Is Google really saying that or just the more breathless commenters? I thought they were pretty good at making it clear that Duplex took a lot of work to do well in very constrained conversational situations.

[ddtaylor]

Well, during the original AI Winter many were open and honest about the capabilities of early ML and it's limits, but what caused the winter itself was it's perception by a large audience as a magic bullet and their disappointment when it didn't work.