I Did Win a Coloring Contest Once When I Was Eight So I Feel Like I Could Probably Get in That Price Range But This Seriously Though It Is Is Really Amazing What It Was What It Did I Mean It's Still One of Those Things Where It's It's A Little Bit Disturbing Like How It How It Decided to Create or What It Decided to Create With It But At the Same Time Seeing This Kind of Advancement in It Is It's Incredible You Know And It's Something That's Gonna Be Like Use Like You Were Even Explained Like Creativity Seems to Be Something We've Always Thought of as a Human Side and Now We're Seeing What AI Can Can Be Used For With This Let's Go On to This Last One To It Cuz I Know Everybody Can Go to Digital Trends Calm Read All About These Different Advancements But This Last One Was One That Was Really Pretty Shocking In That I Don't Think Anybody Knew How Far Along We Were with This Kind of AI And I'm Talking About Google Duplex Yeah Absolutely I Mean This Is Probably the Most Famous I Would Say Maybe You've Met You Mentioned Earlier The Beat the Sort of Viral Video of the Robot Doing Parkour Maybe That Was Shared as Widely But I Think This Is Probably the Break People Are Most Excited About

Google's duplex technology which basically enables a robot to phone out and place a reservation for a restaurant or a hair salon. I think they did in their demonstration so essentially it's kind of like getting Siri or Google Now or Alexa to phone up and make a reservation but it does it in such a realistic voice we're complete with sort of the human-like tone which I'm probably doing now when I'm speaking about sort of on and off between words that make it sound like we're conversing with a human um with the idea that even the person on the other end who's maybe taking this reservation doesn't realize that they're speaking with a machine and it's really just an astonishing demonstration of how far this technology has come in a short what in a short space of time.

It was showing off at Google's i/o conference earlier this year and I think they're just now starting to roll it out for some Google phones in I think about three or four US cities but that's something that we should really be watching in 2019 as this becomes kind of you know a mainstream technology that's kind of available to all of us. Yeah I mean just the fact that they got there this quick we actually have a clip there here we'll go ahead and roll just a clip of it.

This is part of the demonstration that they did for Google duplex I think this is somebody calling up I believe this is the one where she's calling up to order well I will just let's go ahead and play it here we'll take a look and see but yeah it's somebody calling an actual person so the second person is human the first person is not and if you don't know that's what you're listening to it's kind of hard to tell the difference. So let's go ahead and roll this right now I'm looking for something I'm a third don't give me one what time are you looking for well at 12:00 p.m. we do not have a false p.m. available the closest we have so that is a 1:15 do you have anything between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. depending on what's just a little bit of a sample there but I mean even adding in the mm-hmm you know and different things like that like actual human things a human would do.

It's it's pretty incredible yeah absolutely I mean again you think back to maybe 2011 when Siri first showed up on our iPhone 4s and how even at the time he kind of had to speak to machines in such a deliberate way to get them to understand what you were saying yeah and actually really less than a decade on we can have conversations where the machine learning technology and the voice recognition is so good that it's able to speak with someone who doesn't even realize that they're speaking with the machine so it is it's really astonishing.

So for me that was probably the most exciting development of the year I think I think maybe the variable painting would be my favorite story but I think that this will probably be the development to watch definitely well so many amazing advancements and you've kind of categorized a bunch of the really big ones right there in your article so that article is available at digital Trends right now highly suggest reading it.

Luke thanks so much for hopping on here to talk with us about this it's always fun to bring up with this subject fantastic thank you so much have a great day thanks Lou

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Luke door Milan right now to talk about just that hello Luke absolutely so you have an article that's up at Digital Trends right now a really great article just talking about over this last year some of the different advancements we've seen I mean AI has been a huge topic that's that's really been kind of at the forefront of a lot of different segments of technology is that right absolutely I mean it was difficult for this piece to really sort of narrow down a finite number of breakthroughs that we've seen in the last year in terms of exciting demonstrations of sort of machine learning and robotics in action but really that was what the the piece was designed to do I mean of course it's difficult to be able to say what the most significant advances have been in the last year because we don't yet know how some of these technology is going to play out but certainly these were kind of maybe about eight of the most kind of attention-grabbing demonstrations that we've seen in both of these fields well and you're absolutely right I mean it is hard it's hard to narrow it down and yeah until we see where this technology goes you know you don't know what's gonna have the biggest impact going forward one that a company that I think we all see their videos definitely probably the most viral worthy videos in all of robotics is a company Boston Dynamics and one of their advancements is really really impressive and also kind of scary at the same time yeah absolutely this is the video of Boston Dynamics Atlas robot which you can see on the screen at the moment which they've been working on for about five years now and every year it seems that they demonstrate sort of multiple astonishing achievements with it last year they they had it executing a sort of picture-perfect Olympics worthy backflip and if you thought there was no way but it could possibly top that this year it sort of demonstrated a pretty impressive parkour display that looked like something out of you know won the Jason Bourne so or Casino Royale or something it was pretty impressive and especially if you put that into the context of remembering that not that long ago within our lifetimes you know robots were machines that could maybe shuttle down a hallway without falling over so it's pretty astonishing that you can have a demonstration like this you know this isn't technology yet that is rolling out in the real world maybe maybe we're kind of glad about that it is astonishing demonstration of just what some of this technology is capable of from one of the world's most exciting robotics labs and that's and that's a good point I mean it does the video looks like it's CGI it's not I mean this is really something they've created what kind of an application could that product have in the if it were to come out into the marketplace yeah I mean there are a tremendous number of potential applications you've got to remember of course that a lot of this research doesn't necessarily the robot that is then kind of you know I guess developed as a result of this doesn't have to look like the robot that we're watching in the video a lot of this is about testing out new forms of locomotion sort of working out what works what doesn't work a sort of robot agility maybe kind of autonomous sensing I mean you can clearly see something like this having military application potentially but at the same time there are other robots that I mentioned on the list that's maybe the attention grabbing one but there are other robots I include on the list that are being used now in the real world for things like sort of inspection tasks there was a row bottom which which went on to an oil rig and carried out several weeks worth of inspection tasks there were delivery robots so really there are all kinds of applications that you could imagine a humanoid robot being used for I mean again this is a robot which is designed to essentially kind of move and look like a human to some degree so if you think about the tasks that we're capable of is really kind of no limit to what a robot like this could be could could be used to carry out it's incredible how far what what kind of advancements we've had over this last year just in robotics alone and you can breathe about the rest of them in this article at digital Transcom let's go to something else that really has seemed too advanced at just such a breakneck speed as far as compared to even like two years ago and I'm talking about artificial intelligence and you know maybe what that even means what that term means is still maybe a little bit loose as far as where it's being applied but there are some really attention-grabbing things that people did with AI over this last year and one of them was was art something you wouldn't picture artificial intelligence you think of that as being kind of a human domain you know that's something that AI would be involved in but yet that's not the case something happened this last year yeah this was actually one of my favorite artificial intelligence stories of the last year for exactly the reason that you mentioned when we think about tasks that AI is capable of normally it tends to be kind of sort of number crunching sorts of jobs so we imagine for example it might be have application even even in something kind of like legal work where it's kind of you know processing large amounts of documents or sort of studying rule sets and trying to kind of find patterns and that sort of thing but creativity for some reason it's something that we kind of tries very highly as humans we think of it as something that machines won't be able to carry out so a demonstration like this is quite interesting and for anyone who didn't read the story earlier on in the year this was a painting which had been generated in part by algorithm it was shown about 15,000 images sort of a greatest hits of the art world and they're using that knowledge it generated a new painting which went up for auction at Christie's auction house I think that the original price that they were expecting to get for this was about seven thousand to ten thousand dollars which is you know it's still probably more than you or I might get if we if we painted something and of but in in in the end I think it sold for four hundred and thirty two thousand dollars so it's kind of this crazy landmark because I mean to a degree it shows that maybe maybe even if we are concerned about the idea of machine creativity or machines kind of carrying out tasks that we might consider creative there is clearly an audience for it so I think in the next year even based purely maybe also the financial motives you're gonna see more and more people think you know actually this is good intro think we can get machines to generate arts and there may well be an audience for it so I think it was an interesting story for a number of different reasons I mean not to brag I did win a coloring contest once when I was eight so I feel like I could probably get in that price range but this seriously though it is is really amazing what it was what it did I mean it's still one of those things where it's it's a little bit disturbing like how it how it decided to create or what it decided to create with it but at the same time seeing this kind of advancement in it is it's it's incredible you know and it's something that's gonna be like use like you were even explained like creativity seems to be something we've always thought of as a human side and now we're seeing what AI can can be used for with this let's go on to this last one to it cuz I know everybody can go to Digital Trends calm read all about these different advancements but this last one was one that was really pretty shocking in that I don't think anybody knew how far along we were with this kind of AI and I'm talking about Google duplex yeah absolutely I mean this is probably the most famous I would say maybe you've met you mentioned earlier the beat the sort of viral video of the robot doing parkour maybe that was shared as widely but I think this is probably the break people are most excited about and it was Google's duplex technology which basically enables a robots to phone out and place a reservation for a restaurant or a hair salon I think they did in their demonstration so essentially it's kind of like getting Siri or Google now or Alexa to phone up and make a reservation but it does it in such a realistic voice we're complete with sort of the human I guess tix which I'm probably doing now when I'm speaking about sort of ons and ours between words that make it sound like we're conversing with a human um with the idea that even the person on the other end who's maybe taking this reservation doesn't realize that they're speaking with a machine and it's really just an astonishing demonstration of as you say how far this technology's come in a short what in a short space of time it was showing off at Google's i/o conference earlier this year and I think they're just now starting to they had a beta a couple of months back and now I think they're just starting to roll it out for some Google phones in I think about three or four US cities but that's something that we should really be watching in 2019 as this becomes kind of you know a mainstream technology that's kind of available to all of us yeah I mean just the fact that they got there this quick we actually have a clip there here we'll go ahead and roll just a clip of it this is part of the demonstration that they did for Google duplex I think this is somebody calling up I believe this is the one where she's calling up to order well I will just let's go ahead and play it here we'll take a look and see but yeah it's somebody calling an actual person so the second person is human the first person is not and if you don't know that's what you're listening to it's kind of hard to tell the difference so let's go ahead and roll this right now I'm looking for something I'm a third don't give me one what time are you looking for well at 12:00 p.m. we do not have a false p.m. available the closest we have so that is a 1:15 do you have anything between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. depending on what's just a little bit of a sample there but I mean even adding in the mm-hmm you know and different things like that like actual human things a human would do it's it's pretty incredible yeah absolutely I mean again you think back to maybe 2011 when Siri first showed up on our iPhone 4s and how even at the time he kind of had to speak to machines in such a deliberate way to get them to understand what you were saying yeah and actually really less than a decade on we can have conversations where the machine learning technology and the voice recognition is so good that it's able to speak with someone who doesn't even realize that they're speaking with the machine so it is it's really astonishing so for me that was probably the most exciting a related development of the year I think I think maybe the variable painting would be my favorite story but I think that this will probably be the development to watch definitely well so many amazing advancements and you've kind of categorized a bunch of the really big ones right there in your article so that article is available at digital Transcom right now highly suggest reading it Luke thanks so much for hopping on here to talk with us about this it's always fun to bring up with this subject fantastic thank you so much have a great day thanks Louif you're a fan of digital trends live you know that I love talking about artificial intelligence and robotics I find it fascinating and there's so many amazing advancements that have happened over the last year and we have our foremost expert mr. Luke door Milan right now to talk about just that hello Luke absolutely so you have an article that's up at Digital Trends right now a really great article just talking about over this last year some of the different advancements we've seen I mean AI has been a huge topic that's that's really been kind of at the forefront of a lot of different segments of technology is that right absolutely I mean it was difficult for this piece to really sort of narrow down a finite number of breakthroughs that we've seen in the last year in terms of exciting demonstrations of sort of machine learning and robotics in action but really that was what the the piece was designed to do I mean of course it's difficult to be able to say what the most significant advances have been in the last year because we don't yet know how some of these technology is going to play out but certainly these were kind of maybe about eight of the most kind of attention-grabbing demonstrations that we've seen in both of these fields well and you're absolutely right I mean it is hard it's hard to narrow it down and yeah until we see where this technology goes you know you don't know what's gonna have the biggest impact going forward one that a company that I think we all see their videos definitely probably the most viral worthy videos in all of robotics is a company Boston Dynamics and one of their advancements is really really impressive and also kind of scary at the same time yeah absolutely this is the video of Boston Dynamics Atlas robot which you can see on the screen at the moment which they've been working on for about five years now and every year it seems that they demonstrate sort of multiple astonishing achievements with it last year they they had it executing a sort of picture-perfect Olympics worthy backflip and if you thought there was no way but it could possibly top that this year it sort of demonstrated a pretty impressive parkour display that looked like something out of you know won the Jason Bourne so or Casino Royale or something it was pretty impressive and especially if you put that into the context of remembering that not that long ago within our lifetimes you know robots were machines that could maybe shuttle down a hallway without falling over so it's pretty astonishing that you can have a demonstration like this you know this isn't technology yet that is rolling out in the real world maybe maybe we're kind of glad about that it is astonishing demonstration of just what some of this technology is capable of from one of the world's most exciting robotics labs and that's and that's a good point I mean it does the video looks like it's CGI it's not I mean this is really something they've created what kind of an application could that product have in the if it were to come out into the marketplace yeah I mean there are a tremendous number of potential applications you've got to remember of course that a lot of this research doesn't necessarily the robot that is then kind of you know I guess developed as a result of this doesn't have to look like the robot that we're watching in the video a lot of this is about testing out new forms of locomotion sort of working out what works what doesn't work a sort of robot agility maybe kind of autonomous sensing I mean you can clearly see something like this having military application potentially but at the same time there are other robots that I mentioned on the list that's maybe the attention grabbing one but there are other robots I include on the list that are being used now in the real world for things like sort of inspection tasks there was a row bottom which which went on to an oil rig and carried out several weeks worth of inspection tasks there were delivery robots so really there are all kinds of applications that you could imagine a humanoid robot being used for I mean again this is a robot which is designed to essentially kind of move and look like a human to some degree so if you think about the tasks that we're capable of is really kind of no limit to what a robot like this could be could could be used to carry out it's incredible how far what what kind of advancements we've had over this last year just in robotics alone and you can breathe about the rest of them in this article at digital Transcom let's go to something else that really has seemed too advanced at just such a breakneck speed as far as compared to even like two years ago and I'm talking about artificial intelligence and you know maybe what that even means what that term means is still maybe a little bit loose as far as where it's being applied but there are some really attention-grabbing things that people did with AI over this last year and one of them was was art something you wouldn't picture artificial intelligence you think of that as being kind of a human domain you know that's something that AI would be involved in but yet that's not the case something happened this last year yeah this was actually one of my favorite artificial intelligence stories of the last year for exactly the reason that you mentioned when we think about tasks that AI is capable of normally it tends to be kind of sort of number crunching sorts of jobs so we imagine for example it might be have application even even in something kind of like legal work where it's kind of you know processing large amounts of documents or sort of studying rule sets and trying to kind of find patterns and that sort of thing but creativity for some reason it's something that we kind of tries very highly as humans we think of it as something that machines won't be able to carry out so a demonstration like this is quite interesting and for anyone who didn't read the story earlier on in the year this was a painting which had been generated in part by algorithm it was shown about 15,000 images sort of a greatest hits of the art world and they're using that knowledge it generated a new painting which went up for auction at Christie's auction house I think that the original price that they were expecting to get for this was about seven thousand to ten thousand dollars which is you know it's still probably more than you or I might get if we if we painted something and of but in in in the end I think it sold for four hundred and thirty two thousand dollars so it's kind of this crazy landmark because I mean to a degree it shows that maybe maybe even if we are concerned about the idea of machine creativity or machines kind of carrying out tasks that we might consider creative there is clearly an audience for it so I think in the next year even based purely maybe also the financial motives you're gonna see more and more people think you know actually this is good intro think we can get machines to generate arts and there may well be an audience for it so I think it was an interesting story for a number of different reasons I mean not to brag I did win a coloring contest once when I was eight so I feel like I could probably get in that price range but this seriously though it is is really amazing what it was what it did I mean it's still one of those things where it's it's a little bit disturbing like how it how it decided to create or what it decided to create with it but at the same time seeing this kind of advancement in it is it's it's incredible you know and it's something that's gonna be like use like you were even explained like creativity seems to be something we've always thought of as a human side and now we're seeing what AI can can be used for with this let's go on to this last one to it cuz I know everybody can go to Digital Trends calm read all about these different advancements but this last one was one that was really pretty shocking in that I don't think anybody knew how far along we were with this kind of AI and I'm talking about Google duplex yeah absolutely I mean this is probably the most famous I would say maybe you've met you mentioned earlier the beat the sort of viral video of the robot doing parkour maybe that was shared as widely but I think this is probably the break people are most excited about and it was Google's duplex technology which basically enables a robots to phone out and place a reservation for a restaurant or a hair salon I think they did in their demonstration so essentially it's kind of like getting Siri or Google now or Alexa to phone up and make a reservation but it does it in such a realistic voice we're complete with sort of the human I guess tix which I'm probably doing now when I'm speaking about sort of ons and ours between words that make it sound like we're conversing with a human um with the idea that even the person on the other end who's maybe taking this reservation doesn't realize that they're speaking with a machine and it's really just an astonishing demonstration of as you say how far this technology's come in a short what in a short space of time it was showing off at Google's i/o conference earlier this year and I think they're just now starting to they had a beta a couple of months back and now I think they're just starting to roll it out for some Google phones in I think about three or four US cities but that's something that we should really be watching in 2019 as this becomes kind of you know a mainstream technology that's kind of available to all of us yeah I mean just the fact that they got there this quick we actually have a clip there here we'll go ahead and roll just a clip of it this is part of the demonstration that they did for Google duplex I think this is somebody calling up I believe this is the one where she's calling up to order well I will just let's go ahead and play it here we'll take a look and see but yeah it's somebody calling an actual person so the second person is human the first person is not and if you don't know that's what you're listening to it's kind of hard to tell the difference so let's go ahead and roll this right now I'm looking for something I'm a third don't give me one what time are you looking for well at 12:00 p.m. we do not have a false p.m. available the closest we have so that is a 1:15 do you have anything between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. depending on what's just a little bit of a sample there but I mean even adding in the mm-hmm you know and different things like that like actual human things a human would do it's it's pretty incredible yeah absolutely I mean again you think back to maybe 2011 when Siri first showed up on our iPhone 4s and how even at the time he kind of had to speak to machines in such a deliberate way to get them to understand what you were saying yeah and actually really less than a decade on we can have conversations where the machine learning technology and the voice recognition is so good that it's able to speak with someone who doesn't even realize that they're speaking with the machine so it is it's really astonishing so for me that was probably the most exciting a related development of the year I think I think maybe the variable painting would be my favorite story but I think that this will probably be the development to watch definitely well so many amazing advancements and you've kind of categorized a bunch of the really big ones right there in your article so that article is available at digital Transcom right now highly suggest reading it Luke thanks so much for hopping on here to talk with us about this it's always fun to bring up with this subject fantastic thank you so much have a great day thanks Lou\n"