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Oblivious to the Obvious

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So how many of you saw the stunning video on Google Assistant making a phone call on behalf of the user to make an appointment at a salon? They call it the Google Duplex and it pretty much understands the nuances of speech and answers just like humans.  I am sure you guys would have watched it. Well, it is a game changer isn’t it? The idea is not far fetched. In no time we are going to have assistant making calls for us.  Likewise, I bet you would have noticed the advertisements for Google Home and Amazon’s Alexa too. And I am also seeing a lot of people actually buying and using it. They are so thrilled with the new technology that they cannot resist buying it and flaunting about it in their social media sites. After seeing Google’s duplex video, I was so amazed by the technology but the same time too nervous about it.In fact it started bothering me so much that I could not get it out of my head that day. To make things worse, I ended up watching a series of episodes fr