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    From Axel@none@not.here to aus.cars,aus.computers on Fri Jun 26 15:19:57 2026
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    it is getting sooo good. it's almost impossible to tell you're not
    talking to a real person. the voice is so natural/real, and there's not
    just canned responses, relevant sentences are constructed in reply. the
    only giveaway is the slight delay in replying. we're now living in the
    realm of what was science fiction just a few decades ago.
    --
    Linux Mint 22.3

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  • From Xeno@xenolith@optusnet.com.au to aus.cars,aus.computers on Fri Jun 26 15:34:41 2026
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    On 26/6/2026 3:19 pm, Axel wrote:

    it is getting sooo good. it's almost impossible to tell you're not
    talking to a real person. the voice is so natural/real, and there's not
    just canned responses, relevant sentences are constructed in reply. the
    only giveaway is the slight delay in replying. we're now living in the
    realm of what was science fiction just a few decades ago.

    We spent ages teaching robots how to communicate with humans.
    Now we're teaching humans how to communicate with robots.
    --
    Xeno

    Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
    (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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  • From Ozix@ozix@xizo.am to aus.computers on Sun Jun 28 14:03:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: aus.computers

    Axel wrote:

    it is getting sooo good. it's almost impossible to tell you're not
    talking to a real person. the voice is so natural/real, and there's not
    just canned responses, relevant sentences are constructed in reply. the
    only giveaway is the slight delay in replying. we're now living in the
    realm of what was science fiction just a few decades ago.


    And yet "AI transcription" seems shite at speech recognition. I tried it
    on a movie a week ago, and some of the results were nonsense. On a par
    with Monty Python's Hungarian Phrase Book.
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