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by scarface74 2908 days ago
A chatbot that only works within a limited domain is not "revolutionary". It's been done before. The NLP part is relatively easy in a limited domain. Given enough time and enough users, it could be an ELIZA 2.0 level of programming.

The harder part is voice to text (not rocket science and that can be done pretty reliably) and natural sounding text to speech.

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Can't wait to see the bot you use to make millions with in competition with Duplex
With Googles reputation of dropping products and letting them wither and die, and Google’s lack of ability to monetize anything outside of search, there is just as much of likelihood that they won’t make money off of it as I won’t....