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[382.52 --> 388.58] interactions is much decreased when you're in this kind of scenario where you just need
[388.58 --> 389.94] to do this one thing.
[390.28 --> 394.66] And a lot of it is like, let me check that for you, or would you mind going on hold for
[394.66 --> 396.96] a second, or something like that, where you just need to confirm.
[397.62 --> 401.18] So, the amount of times, that's why I keep on saying that mm-hmm thing, because the amount
[401.18 --> 404.04] of times, and that's all you really need to say on the phone, and that's often all you
[404.04 --> 413.52] really say on the phone, but the amount of times that the AI says it and does it very
[413.52 --> 415.50] believingly, very believably?
[415.72 --> 416.08] Believably.
[416.20 --> 416.48] You got it.
[416.82 --> 419.18] And it's really good.
[419.26 --> 426.40] The one thing that I noticed was there's a slight delay, a little bit more than I feel
[426.40 --> 429.40] like most people would take before they say something, but not very much.
[429.40 --> 433.36] And I think to counteract that, like they programmed in some delay.
[433.84 --> 438.28] Like when you answer the phone and say hello, they program in a wait, a B, because no one
[438.28 --> 439.10] just goes, hello, hello.
[439.50 --> 439.70] Yeah.
[439.98 --> 441.00] You wait a second, right?
[441.12 --> 443.82] And I might have been trying to look for it.
[444.46 --> 445.96] They also programmed in ums.
[446.40 --> 448.72] I mean, there's going to be some processing time too, right?
[448.80 --> 448.94] Yeah.
[449.92 --> 450.54] Really cool.
[450.62 --> 456.14] So, the reason that they can do that is because when I'm talking to my Google Assistant, I could
[456.14 --> 462.08] say anything to it and it has to be able to respond, but as this user on Twitch says, in
[462.08 --> 468.58] this situation, not only is the computer basically performing a script, a narrow set of actions,
[468.66 --> 472.20] of possible actions, but so is a human because the human on the other end is just trying to
[472.20 --> 473.50] get some basic information from you.
[473.52 --> 474.34] Someone's calling in.
[474.56 --> 475.60] What time do they want to come?
[475.70 --> 476.18] How many people?
[478.44 --> 481.92] Everyone's complaining about the contrast, so I'm trying to fix it, but I'm really bad.
[482.00 --> 482.42] I like that.
[482.46 --> 483.38] It's like an Instagram filter.
[483.38 --> 487.76] I'm really bad at doing anything related to this at all.
[487.98 --> 490.96] So, how brittle do you think this system is going to be when it launches?
[491.36 --> 492.70] That's everyone's first complaint.
[492.88 --> 497.56] Like, what if someone just says, enjoying the weather we're having and it doesn't know what
[497.56 --> 497.98] that means?
[498.42 --> 498.64] Yeah.
[498.70 --> 501.26] Like, if they need to do something and they're trying to carry on small talk.
[501.40 --> 501.54] Yeah.
[502.74 --> 505.08] Honestly, there might be some stuff set in.
[505.14 --> 509.68] I wouldn't be too surprised if there's some stuff set in to, like, basically cut those
[509.68 --> 512.28] conversations off by just using the, mm-hmm.
[512.74 --> 513.00] Yeah.
[513.28 --> 514.24] Enjoying the weather we're having?
[514.64 --> 514.82] Mm-hmm.
[514.92 --> 519.58] Well, another difference is that during the demo, the assistant never announces itself
[519.58 --> 520.26] as such.
[520.32 --> 522.22] It never says, hey, you're talking to a robot.
[522.34 --> 526.74] And a lot of people got pretty angry about that, but Google has, since the demo, promised
[526.74 --> 531.32] that when it rolls out, it will announce itself as a virtual assistant.
[531.32 --> 536.06] So, then you're not even going to have those problems because you know you're talking to
[536.06 --> 536.44] a person.
[536.64 --> 540.38] But you're not just going to hang up like you or me might when we answer our phone and
[540.38 --> 543.72] there's a robot there because it's business and you don't want to lose that business.
[543.92 --> 545.24] You want that appointment to get made.
[546.58 --> 548.92] Most, well, most businesses probably wouldn't hang up.
[549.80 --> 550.08] Yeah.
[550.38 --> 554.86] I, no, I, I completely agree because you want the business, but I think it's, I think it's,
[555.44 --> 557.46] I didn't know that it was going to announce.
[558.60 --> 559.46] That's a new development.
[560.10 --> 560.46] Okay.
[561.32 --> 566.30] Because I feel like now if I was a business, if I had a text version, I would just want
[566.30 --> 566.62] that.
[567.74 --> 569.86] Oh, you mean like if there's just an online web form?
[570.16 --> 570.32] Yeah.
[570.70 --> 570.94] Yeah.
[571.06 --> 573.24] I would rather that Google just filled that out.
[573.72 --> 576.26] Well, well, you would have to pay for that though.
[576.42 --> 578.78] You would have to build that, that booking system.
[578.90 --> 579.76] Whereas Google built this.
[579.78 --> 582.22] But there's a lot of like open table for restaurants.
[582.38 --> 582.56] Yeah.
[582.56 --> 583.52] There's open table.
[583.66 --> 590.08] There's like a lot of different services like this have services out there that work with
[590.08 --> 590.86] them to pair that together.
[590.86 --> 593.96] Like now I don't know if open table like takes something.
[594.52 --> 596.06] I can't see how they could take a cut.
[596.06 --> 599.84] But like, I'm sure there's some benefit there.
[599.84 --> 603.02] Like maybe you have to pay them to be on it or there's ads or something.
[603.10 --> 603.70] I have no idea.
[604.06 --> 609.68] There's another angle with the virtual assistant announcing itself, which is eavesdropping laws.
[609.94 --> 615.90] So when at least a dozen states, there's laws because it's, it doesn't have ears like you
[615.90 --> 616.16] and me.
[616.22 --> 617.26] It's not hearing the conversation.
[617.26 --> 619.36] It needs to actually record the conversation.
[619.36 --> 619.64] Yeah.
[619.64 --> 625.12] And because you're recording the conversation, there's states where every party on the, in
[625.12 --> 628.34] the conversation, each party has to consent to it being recorded.
[628.54 --> 631.58] So it either has to say, this is a virtual assistant.
[632.44 --> 633.88] Can I record this?
[633.88 --> 637.98] Or maybe it can get away with just announcing this is being recorded.
[638.20 --> 639.90] And if you don't hang up, you consent.
[640.32 --> 642.28] I don't know the particular laws for each state.
[642.28 --> 645.32] I feel like that could work.
[646.02 --> 647.58] Just so you know, this call is being recorded.
[647.80 --> 649.28] Please hang up if you don't want it to be.
[649.64 --> 649.68] Yeah.