Google's Duplex for Web is Making GUIs Obsolete

Computers were created to make our daily tasks easier and life more convenient. But it took a while to make them accessible to a wider population. And now, anyone of all ages can use computers without having the technical know-how of its mechanisms.

And Google is upping its game with an improvement to its Duplex project. When it initially launched, Duplex could take phone calls for people. Now, it can scour the web and do all the tedious tasks for us based on our preferences.

In the demo, the assistant navigates a car rental website. It fills in the form and makes choices for you according to your past history.
With Duplex for Web, websites, menus, forms, and other UI elements are becoming a hindrance — a bunch of slow and unnecessary obstacles between you and what you are trying to achieve. Why spend time going through them, when you can tell the computer exactly what you want, in plain English?

(Image credit: Bence Boros/Unsplash)


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you will always need a sophisticated UI to do anything of value with a computer, whether its graphics design, software debugging, video editing, etc.
"wider audience" just means "Mr. and Ms. Billy Bob Walmart can use the internet whereas before they were intimidated"
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Why spend time going through them, when you can tell the computer exactly what you want, in plain English?
Because sometimes it's not easy to do that without seeing what your options are, or because you're not especially articulate?
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