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Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel Phones
Google has been trying to have its AI assistant make phone calls on your behalf for almost 10 years. Remember Duplex ?
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Google has been trying to have its AI assistant make phone calls on your behalf for almost 10 years. Remember Duplex ? It enabled the now-defunct Google Assistant to call restaurants and book tables . That service was shuttered a few years ago, but now comes round two, powered by modern large language models .
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