Two disturbing technological developments revealed this week. One, Boston Dynamics has taught their Atlas robot to both run (okay, jog) and jump over obstacles:
Two, Google has taught their “Duplex” A.I. assistant to do the “Ums,” “mm-hmms” and up-speak to make her sound like an actual human being:
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Source: core77