{"id":85472,"date":"2018-12-04T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/alibaba-already-has-a-voice-assistant-way-better-than-googles"},"modified":"2018-12-04T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T18:22:28","slug":"alibaba-already-has-a-voice-assistant-way-better-than-googles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/alibaba-already-has-a-voice-assistant-way-better-than-googles","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Google made quite the splash when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/611126\/people-are-freaking-out-about-googles-extremely-human-sounding-phone-call-making\/\">unveiled<\/a> Duplex, its eerily humanlike voice assistant capable of making restaurant reservations and salon appointments. It seemed to mark a new milestone in speech generation and natural-language understanding, and it pulled back the curtain on what the future of human-AI interaction might look like.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612511\/alibaba-already-has-a-voice-assistant-way-better-than-googles\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612511\/alibaba-already-ha...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Google made quite the splash when it unveiled Duplex, its eerily humanlike voice assistant capable of making restaurant reservations and salon appointments. It seemed to mark a new milestone in speech generation and natural-language understanding, and it pulled back the curtain on what the future of human-AI interaction might look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}