[moralestapia]

>They have a demo at https://youtu.be/qE673AY-WEI

That's not a demo, that's a video. Anyone can make something like that in an afternoon with a couple friends and a microphone.

Also, Google is known for putting out fake "demos", remember the Google Duplex scam?

[underdeserver]

Scam? Duplex worked.

[jazzyjackson]

I thought it was announced and never heard from again. It may have worked but it never shipped did it?

[underdeserver]

I made some restaurant reservations, it worked.

[jazzyjackson]

I see, I guess it was never a standalone product then, from reading a Reddit post, it’s a feature built into assistant. Thanks, solves a mystery for me.

[moralestapia]

It was never real. They even admitted they used real people for the service. It was a scam.

Also, that would be quite hard to pull today, 2025, after transformers etc. There's absolutely no chance they were sitting on that back in 2018.

[underdeserver]

I know people who worked on it. It was real. They used real people for some calls, in some cases, but a vast majority of calls made through the system with 100% automatic.

[moralestapia]

I doesn't work today, let alone 6 years ago.

But good work defending your master.