But it's obvious that this accomplishment has legs.

So far, Google isn't promising Duplex as anything other than a disembodied appointment-making robotic friend. In other words, if someone is going to declare the Turing test passed, John Hennessy is credibility incarnate. Just this year, he was given the ACM's prestigious Turing Award for innovation. He holds the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (how ironic is that?), and was given a khata by the His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. He was chair of Stanford's computer science department, dean of the school of engineering, and eventually became Stanford's president. Hennessy was part of the Stanford team that pioneered RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) processors, the processor technology inside nearly all smartphones. Before you dismiss this as hype from a guy in a suit, you need to know who Hennessy is, beyond just the chairman of Google's parent company.

Also: Google I/O 2018: Key takeaways on Duplex, AI, privacy, AndroidĪlphabet chairman John Hennessy acknowledged this at an I/O talk.

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