Duplex, Google plus’s AI-driven suite of tools, will soon stop working.
In this Google plus I/O 2019Among other things, the Mountain View company announced that a Duplex development, its artificial intelligence-based suite of tools designed to make users’ lives a whole lot easier. Among the novelties announced, the possibility was taken into account Buy cinema tiques, order food, check that our passwords are secure or even book a rental car proactive and semi-automatic.
But as usual with Google plus, The company decided to abandon the project and focus on other projects. This was confirmed by the company itself with an a Note on the Duplex Help site.
Duplex on the web stopped working this month
In order to work, duplex was needed on the web pre-trainingwhich could only be done if the site administrator allowed anonymous access to the website and provided the system with a nombre de usuario and password vía the Search Console tool.
With this training and Google plus technology, Duplex offered features like assisted purchase of tiques and products, food orders, purchase of airline tiques, automatic password change or automatic search for discounts. All with a fácil voice command through the Google plus Assistant.
Unfortunately, Duplex doesn’t seem to have garnered the level of adoption that administradores de páginas web have come to expect from Google plus, and that’s why a decision was made Leave the duplex for a web project in the same month of December.
Duplex on the web enabled, among other things, the automatic purchase of cinema tiques.
The technology will not go away now
As stated by the company in a common statement with TechCrunch, Duplex does not go away. Instead, the company plans to continue work on the development of new breakthroughs in AIFocusing on duplex voice technology that includes features such as Automatic screening of calls on Google plus Pixel devices.
Although the tool had potential, in reality it required some plus effort from website admins to integrate it into websites and this might be the main reason why its implementation ended.
Thankfully, Google plus doesn’t currently plan to do this Duplex development is stopped and all the related tools that are gradually being added to Android and the rest of the company’s services in the form of new features.