Those human moderators are still working on Duplex—in fact, some of them are operators who will save a Duplex call when things go sideways—but Huffman and Fox declined to say how many people they've hired for the Duplex team.
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Because even if Duplex is released only in the U.S., that's potentially 50 to 100 million devices that could use Duplex to make calls.
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That's because if just one person uses Duplex to inquire about holiday hours, Duplex can use that info to update Google Search as a whole.
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Update October 9th, 12:43pm: Added additional details on what cities will get Duplex first and what kinds of calls Duplex will be capable of.
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Duplex can also cancel reservations In addition to setting up reservations, Duplex can call a restaurant back with the bad news that you won't be able to make it.
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Google says that a quarter of Duplex calls start with human callers, and 15 percent start with the AI and are later intervened by a person from the Duplex call center.
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Google executive Scott Huffman told Bloomberg that Duplex could say something like "I'm the Google assistant and I'm calling for a client" and that tests for Duplex were planned for the summer.
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However, the Times performed its own test, using Duplex to call more than a dozen restaurants, and Times found that three out of the four successful Duplex bookings were made by humans.
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It may place an automated call using Duplex, if needed.
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Some people believe Google Duplex presents a deeper moral issue.
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Google Duplex isn't the only big dog in AI Town.
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From then on, Duplex handles the requested dinner reservation smoothly.
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In the Duplex system, experienced operators act as the instructors.
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It's not clear how these eavesdropping laws affect Google Duplex.
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The company plans to begin testing Duplex publicly this summer.
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Until now, Duplex was only available on Google Pixel phones.
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Duplex: Uh, is the reservation confirmed for Sunday- Me: Yes.
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This is the reception of one of the Duplex suites...
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Rooms range from standard to larger suites and duplex apartments.
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"This will not change when Duplex takes over the conversation."
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The other duplex at 520 Park sold for $62 million.
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He recently bought a duplex apartment there for $91.5 million.
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Our duplex, at 21928½ Harold Way, was demolished long ago.
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To get Duplex just to this point, Google had to manually analyze and annotate hundreds if not thousands of calls manually in order to create decision trees that Duplex could break down and understand.
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Whenever you do this, Google warns that Duplex will be unable to call that restaurant again for the remainder of the day — a measure clearly intended to prevent people from spamming businesses with Duplex calls.
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By tweaking Duplex, Google puts to rest some of that criticism.
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Which would mean no sneaky Google Duplex human-speech mimicking bots.
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Hence the country cottage, as well as a duplex in Chelsea.
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A state police tactical team entered one side of the duplex.
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Only then was the family moved out of the duplex permanently.
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But some Duplex calls are placed by human operators at Google.
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Duplex: Are we all set for Sunday at 7:45 p.m.?
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Duplex: I really don't know, uh whatever you think is nicer.
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Duplex was — and still is — very much a work in progress.
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Duplex apartments built alongside it sell for as much as $600,000.
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David, however, reportedly owned a massive Park Avenue duplex in Manhattan.
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He let himself into her owner's penthouse duplex in Hell's Kitchen.
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COMEDY SOIREE at the Duplex Cabaret Theater (March 31, 213 p.m.).
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A duplex, it is overgrown with white roses and white oleander.
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So some of those duplex apartments make do with skylights instead.
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It will carry 298 passengers in 149 suites and duplex penthouses.
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The onstage demo of Duplex drew lots of oohs and aahs.
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Bloomberg reports that the backlash to Duplex caught Google by surprise.
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The main entry to the duplex is on the eighth floor.
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The second duplex penthouse will be listed for about $21 million.
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Still, many are excited by the possibilities presented by Google Duplex: Google Duplex is likely years away from a commercial rollout, and it will almost certainly look different by the time it's released to the public.
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Duplex makes a reservation within 15 minutes Once you give the green light, Duplex places the voice call to the restaurant, where it uses Google's AI technology to have a quick conversation with the restaurant employee.
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This section on the ins and outs of Duplex is very interesting: The Google Duplex system is capable of carrying out sophisticated conversations and it completes the majority of its tasks fully autonomously, without human involvement.
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Google did not say when the web version of Duplex was coming, calling the demo an "early preview," but did promise that you can see every step of what Duplex is doing before you confirm the details.
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It makes sense that Google isn't only showing restaurants that field Duplex calls since you can also make reservations through OpenTable, but I wish there were an easier way of using Duplex without as many failed guesses.
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Unit 107, a duplex with seven bedrooms, spans 11,823 square feet and has a 240-square-foot terrace, while Unit 127, an eight-bedroom duplex with 10,822 square feet, has a 713-square-foot private elevator lobby.
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Monthly ExpensesHousing: $22.99,20 for a three-bedroom duplex right off the Mississippi.
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So Google appears to have trained Duplex to be robustly deceptive — i.e.
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How could Google introduce Duplex in a way that would be ethical?
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The Prices were thrilled to move into the duplex in May 13.
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This is the strangest part of using Duplex in these early days.
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Yesterday's stunning reveal of Google Duplex is a prime example of that.
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Those are the only three domains that Google has trained Duplex on.
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Thanks to the $2,700 monthly rent roll, the duplex pays for itself.
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On Tuesday, Google gave multiple demonstrations of its Duplex technology in action.
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Lauren also got to try duping the Duplex robot; results were mixed.
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WaveNet also powers the company's Duplex phone bots, which make restaurant reservations.
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Duplex can now assist in that process by populating the required fields.
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At Google's 2018 I/O Developer Conference the technology giant unveiled Duplex.
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Duplex: I'm Google's automated booking service, calling on behalf of a client.
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These elements are a very real part of the way Duplex works.
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Is a cocktail for breakfast the key to having duplex shoulder muscles?
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The 6,000-square-foot duplex sat on the market for six years.
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The duplex has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and spans 1,600 square feet.
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There is extreme attention to detail throughout the duplex, including delicate wainscoting.
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They enjoyed sharing a duplex in the East Village with three friends.
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"My body is a temple in disrepair," he writes in one duplex.
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Among our four successful bookings with Duplex, three were done by people.
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With Duplex, Google is combining these various tasks into a single system.
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Take Roger and Malea Jaffe, who bought a duplex in Midlothian, Tex.
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To be fair, Google Duplex doesn't literally use phrase-book-like templates.
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The prewar duplex had five bedrooms, two fireplaces and herringbone-patterned floors.
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Another two-bedroom duplex with a huge backyard had an odd layout.
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Bruce has just listed his NYC duplex for a cool $17.75 million.
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Their duplex roof leaked on and off for more than a year.
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There's no way to know which businesses support Duplex and even if you manage to find one that accepts Duplex reservations, it's impossible to know how the conversation went because Google doesn't provide a transcript of the call.
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Remember Duplex, Google's eerily human-sounding AI technology that can make restaurant reservations?
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The hotel's interiors — including the duplex penthouse — are by French designer Jacques Grange.
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But at the same time, Duplex also scared the hell out of people.
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Chernyshov isn't worried about Duplex, though, saying it's a product, not a platform.
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This year it'll expand on this by opening up Duplex to the web.
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The company first demoed Duplex at its I/O developer conference this spring.
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I played the role of a busy, crabby bartender who kept interrupting Duplex.
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No moment wowed the audience at last year's I/O more than Duplex.
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There will be five penthouse units, including one penthouse duplex with four bedrooms.
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The couple saw a duplex in a small condominium building in Clinton Hill.
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The monthly carrying costs for the sponsor unit, called Duplex 11, is $12,842.
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But here, too, the owner's duplex — this one with skylights — was on top.
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I told Google Duplex that I didn't have anything available until 8 p.m.
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When police raided the duplex, Williams and his girlfriend, Shirley Ferguson, were sleeping.
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The duplex space at 2 Spring Street is light-filled during the day.
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The duplex is entered on the lower level via a private elevator bank.
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Mr. Rodriguez purchased the brick-front duplex in 2004, according to property records.
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They were spotted looking at a $11.5 million duplex in Manhattan that spring.
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"I was told by a friend the Duplex is an institution," he said.
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The duplex currently contains nine bedrooms, eight full baths and two powder rooms.
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Duplex on the web At I/O last year, Google launched Duplex, an AI-powered customer service tool meant to help small businesses (like restaurants and hair salons) field more phone calls, answering common questions and scheduling reservations or appointments.
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The company is developing a new feature called Duplex to do this very thing.
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In that example (embedded below), Duplex makes it very clear that it's a bot.
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Who is a "party" to a Duplex call if the caller isn't listening in?
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Duplex debuted at Google's I/O conference last year with a flashy stage demo.
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Duplex: Do you have an available table for Sunday, um, at 7:45 p.m.?
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An engineer had declared the duplex structurally sound, meaning it could still be repaired.
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The Holy Grail here is attempting to Turing test the shit out of Duplex.
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That includes a 8,309-square-foot large duplex penthouse and a four-story townhouse.
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In addition to his Park Avenue duplex, Koch owned a $40.25 million Manhattan townhouse.
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My mother lived in a new two-story duplex, cheap construction on a canal.
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The complex will have a pool, a fitness center and 20 penthouse duplex apartments.
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They turned up nothing in the duplex where Williams, Ferguson, and her children slept.
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They know it all started at the orange-pink duplex just off Washington Boulevard.
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Also selling at a loss was a duplex penthouse at 158 Mercer Street, a.k.a.
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The duplex, known as "Penthouse North," also has an additional 3,400 square feet outdoors.
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Now Lives: In a duplex apartment in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles.
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A duplex penthouse at 443 Greenwich Street in TriBeCa was acquired for $43.79 million.
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Schwartz has transformed his duplex into a nest of elegant, John Derian-inflected whimsy.
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The two-story duplex is spirited, engaging and fiercely unusual — much like its owner.
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On Thursday, Marbury's landlord confirmed to relatives that his Paradise duplex had burned down.
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Whether you have a duplex or a spare room, consider taking on a tenant.
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Every room there is a duplex suite that goes for about $1,500 a night.
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Or use the Duplex assistant to impersonate you, making calls and reservations in your name.
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On Thursday, Marbury's landlord confirmed to relatives that his duplex in Paradise had burned down.
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In these two cases, Duplex has only been trained in restaurant and hair salon bookings.
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Conference attendees could not test Duplex for themselves, and it is not yet widely available.
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Watch the video above, and you'll notice that Duplex never identifies itself as a robot.
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This call captured by VentureBeat could've easily been interpreted as Duplex running on its own.
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"It was clear that that was not where we were headed," Soltero said of Duplex.
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When a human sounded confused or flustered, Duplex took a tone that was almost apologetic.
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The company is attempting to prove it has addressed some of the concerns about Duplex.
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Google has also been studying speech disfluencies, and how they relate to Duplex, Huffman said.
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Much of Google's focus during Tuesday's Duplex demo was around how it could help businesses.
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For Google, Duplex marks the next big step in natural-sounding, fully-autonomous robot conversations.
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During the demonstration, Google CEO Sundar Pichai presented Duplex as being an entirely automated service.
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Google is likely using human callers to create more of that data to train Duplex.
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As such, tens of millions of people in Google's home country still can't use Duplex.
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Unfortunately, using Duplex to make a call isn't as easy as Google made it seem.
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The 6,299-square-foot duplex includes a 986-square-foot private garden and a loggia.
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"The first shot I got, 22 years old, I bought my first duplex," he says.
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The place had been merged into a duplex with the unit above, then separated again.
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But days later, Google's Duplex calling technology was the one thing people kept talking about.
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The duplex villas can each accommodate two kids and two adults, according to Kanu's representative.
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The asking price for the duplex is $1.85 million, according to Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
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The duplex is filled with prewar architectural flourishes, which remain intact and fully restored today.
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Google calls this feature "Duplex" and it'll roll out at some point in the future.
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The Pixels will be the first to Google's controversial Duplex feature, which reservations via Assistant.
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The one-bedroom duplex "wasn't large, but it was lovely," said Ms. Johnson, an anthropologist.
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Yes, some remarkable applications have been built from it, including Google Translate and Google Duplex.
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It's a duplex so we would likely be landlords to not one, but two, families.
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But the thing about the master's house, in this analogy, is that it's a duplex.
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The uproar that followed Google's I/O demonstration of Duplex spanned a range of emotions — from amazement at the technology's mimicry of casual human speech to deep concern over ethics — and the company has tried to resolve apprehension about Duplex in the days since.
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Though Duplex is capable of making other types of bookings, it's currently focused on restaurant reservations.
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Google says it's working to bring Duplex to the other remaining U.S. states in the future.
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A bad actor could potentially cheat information out of the Duplex assistant in a phone call.
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It's only in the last stage where Duplex is able to largely function on its own.
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For the most part, people focused on two aspects of Google Duplex: How natural it sounded.
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All Pixels (1, 2, and 3) will receive Duplex at the same time later this year.
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King also makes the point that the Duplex system is (at least for now) computationally costly.
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In another year, more people might have given Google the benefit of the doubt on Duplex.
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CEO Sundar Pichai said Google is planning to test Duplex in experimental form beginning this summer.
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If we think about something like Google Duplex, we're asking it to do something for us.
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That would suggest that just over 60 percent of calls made by Duplex are completely automated.
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EDT This story has been updated to include audio of the Google Duplex call in question.
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Now, almost a year later, both her and her fiancé feel settled in their duplex home.
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Duplex responded with a pause, then said, "Oh, I see, thank you," and promptly hung up.
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But the owner's duplex was on top, and the house was adjacent to a corner bodega.
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Koch's primary residence was an $18 million, 18-room duplex in an ultra-exclusive Manhattan building.
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Here's an audio recording of Google's Duplex in action, making appointments and reservations over the phone.
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The duplex is in 444 57th Street, a luxury apartment building just east of Midtown Manhattan.
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According to the New York Post, Maccioni previously listed the duplex in 2013 for $1.879 million.
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The duplex floors are connected by stairs as well as a passenger and a service elevator.
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We had not yet moved into the duplex that lack of money would later make necessary.
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Stephan lives in a duplex in Mid-City Los Angeles that he bought in June 5003.
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It has two-family zoning should a new owner choose to convert it into a duplex.
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Kalanick, who is worth $3.5 billion according to Forbes, purchased the duplex penthouse for $36.5 million.
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Their duplex, with a spiral staircase, occupied the top floors of a small walk-up building.
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But Google Duplex is not the advance toward meaningful A.I. that many people seem to think.
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" Google Duplex can have a human-sounding conversation only "after being deeply trained in such domains.
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The publisher Mark Magowan and his wife, Nina, sold their Park Avenue duplex for $19.25 million.
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One was a furnished duplex with a sleeping loft for $26,2500, but the layout didn't work.
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At another building nearby, she saw a two-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex with 2,600 square feet.
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Meanwhile, Google Duplex is apparently capable of creating computer voices that are indistinguishable from human ones.
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But there was also a problem: People walked away wondering if the Duplex technology actually existed.
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Nobody wants to buy this $7.5 million duplex being sold by the former CEO of Equinox
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There were so many unanswered questions: Did the person on the other end of the line know that they were talking to a robot, what happens when Duplex gets things wrong, and more importantly, what does Duplex mean for the future of phone calls as a whole?
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AI-powered systems need user data to train and improve their algorithms, and Duplex is no exception.
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An updated Google Assistant with Duplex support will be rolled out to certain users over the summer.
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Her lead levels fell gradually after she left the duplex but remain above the CDC's elevated threshold.
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However, the company didn't clarify during its presentation what Duplex will be able to do at first.
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It drew some of the same "oohs" and "aahs" as yesterday's Duplex presentation, but for different reasons.
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"One of the things we started doing earlier this year is having full duplex conversations," explains Nadella.
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Over the summer, I got a chance to test drive Duplex at a Thai restaurant in Manhattan.
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Now, Duplex is able to successfully book four out of five reservations completely autonomously, according to Huffman.
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Today, 25-year-old Alison Underwood shares the duplex apartment she shares with her boyfriend, Matt Rothenberg.
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Initially, Duplex will help fill out online forms to book a rental car or buy movie tickets.
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Duplex will work as part of Google Assistant, the company's virtual assistant for phones and smart speakers.
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The minds behind Google Duplex are in the process of changing that paradigm, for better or worse.
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On iOS, Duplex will live within the Google Assistant app, but the rollout seems to be gradual.
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You can get the SnapPower for duplex or decor style outlets from the company's website now. SnapPower
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The asking price includes a one-room schoolhouse that was long ago converted into a duplex residence.
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Scanlan grew up here, in a narrow duplex on a nondescript street in a tract housing development.
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" The Duplex technology underlying Assistant is now claimed to understand "complex sentences, fast speech, and long remarks.
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For £12.95 million, you can buy the Wolfe House duplex apartment that merges two flats into one.
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Somehow, I saw a flier for a show by someone named Charles Busch at the old Duplex.
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If we lived in a duplex, she would have her sponge and sink and I'd have mine.
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In the meantime, the men found a well-placed condo duplex on Wythe Avenue near Metropolitan Avenue.
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He said that despite changes in gay night life along Christopher Street, the Duplex hasn't changed much.
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The first-floor unit is much more modest: The duplex apartment has one bedroom and two bathrooms.
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English musician Sting and his wife Trudie Styler bought their duplex penthouse for $30 million in 2015.
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A 9,100-square-foot duplex penthouse at 520 Park Avenue in Midtown sold for almost $64.3 million.
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Back at I/O, Google said that it was working on testing Duplex over the summer in three specific areas: calls about holiday hours, restaurant reservations, and hair cut appointments, but according to Wired's report, Duplex will only call restaurants that don't already take online reservations to start.
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Huffman said it only took "a couple months" for the initial version of Duplex to get set up, but its earliest demos were incredibly rudimentary, with the speaker of a wired telephone being placed next to a Mac laptop's speakers while the Duplex technology ran on the machine.
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Privacy Concerns Another problem surrounding the use of technologies such as Duplex is the potential risk to privacy.
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From a user standpoint, Duplex is really just one small tool Google can use to streamline our lives.
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People are already forming some very strong opinions about Google Duplex and its various technological and societal implications.
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On the upper end, a three-bedroom two-and-a-half-bath duplex in a townhouse was $12,500.
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Police say Rodriguez set a mattress on fire in his duplex, with two people inside at the time.
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The Christmas visit had backfired and now everyone was standing outside of the duplex crying, my dad included.
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During the demonstration videos played, Duplex didn't say it was an AI or that conversations were being recorded.
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Google employs human operators who are able to step in if something goes awry during a Duplex call.
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Duplex, which is live in 44 states, is now expanding beyond the phone and voice to the web.
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The six-bedroom duplex is 8,200 square feet and boasts 19843-foot ceilings, according to real estate listings.
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WASHINGTON — Three agents knocked on the door of a modest duplex in a Wisconsin town just after dawn.
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The 138 rentals ranged from $1,800 a month (for a studio) to $85,000 (for a five-bedroom duplex).
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Google raised a lot of questions when it unveiled "Google Duplex" at its developers conference in early May.
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CNBC recently tried Duplex to book a table at a restaurant in New Jersey and it worked perfectly.
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On the day Stone was arrested, the FBI searched the New York duplex he once shared with Davis.
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According to The Real Deal, Chastain purchased the 1,284-square-foot duplex back in 2012 for $1.2 million.
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According to a more reliable source — the NYC Department of Buildings — Swift is currently renovating her Tribeca duplex.
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On the night of May 12, 2011, he visited the duplex yet again, this time searching an armoire.
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During a subsequent interrogation, Tomic confessed not just to the duplex burglary but also to the MAM heist.
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Last month, Google demonstrated a system, called Google Duplex, that can phone a restaurant and make dinner reservations.
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Q: I live in a duplex in northern New Jersey with my spouse and 15-month-old son.
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Hassan Nemazee, who once owned a $17.75 million Park Avenue duplex, had been serving a 12-year sentence.
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Eventually Sara and I found a small Spanish-style duplex with a huge succulent garden and deferred maintenance.
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A sprawling duplex there sold for $92.7 million; it was the second-biggest sale over all in 223.
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While the $100.47 million sale price of the six-bedroom duplex was previously reported, the buyer remained unknown.
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The two-family home, a duplex topped by a private apartment, is an ideal situation for a host.
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When Richard and Jennifer Sands moved into a duplex condominium at the Seagate Residences in Delray Beach, Fla.
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What wasn't clear at the time was how long it would take Duplex to become a real-world product.
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In 1944, he moved to a wood-paneled duplex at 1023 Pierrepont Street, where, coincidentally, Norman Mailer's parents lived.
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But if you make it a duplex instead, then each unit is consuming only $2 million worth of land.
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Google Duplex was the talk of Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference that kicked off this week.
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As for the expanded set of 43 states, Google isn't changing how Duplex discloses when it calls a restaurant.
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Another way to opt out of Google Duplex calls is to tell your Google Assistant to turn it off.
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It's a duplex, but one made from combining a dark basement apartment with the almost equally dark unit upstairs.
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They also now include a premium audio experience with full duplex sound, a 23-microphone array and speaker bar.
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This disclosure doesn't match up with a promotional video for Duplex that Google posted to YouTube back in June.
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The line between human and AI is very blurry here, and that speaks to how convincing Duplex can be.
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This is something that Google has to — and I suspect will — improve as Duplex rolls out to more users.
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Apparently, the plan is only to use Duplex when there's no other way to check availability or book online.
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Google's Duplex technology even uses the word "um" and sometimes misunderstands what people on the phone are talking about.
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Google's blog post offers some fascinating details on this, spelling out some of the verbal ticks Duplex will use.
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The Duplex feature, while a little unsettling, could fundamentally change how we interact with and use our smart assistants.
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They've got Google Duplex, which is the bigger news it's going to roll out in November in four cities.
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Rihanna's downtown New York City duplex is on the market for $16.9 million, according to the New York Post.
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Everything from Android Q, to the Google Assistant, to new Pixel phones, to Duplex will likely be on deck.
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It's helping automate some of the inane tasks of online life, like filling out web forms, with Google Duplex.
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Duplex was taken on by a smart team that nevertheless clearly only started their project after Google I/O.
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Aaron Monroe, also his neighbor, told him the young man took cover under the duplex when the bullets came.
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"It was such a cozy place — it really was home for us," Ms. Thurman said of the expanded duplex.
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Voice technology gadgets, including Amazon's Alexa and Google's Duplex, could get caught up in the next data protection battleground.
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But the available apartment there, again above budget, was a duplex with an open upper level, offering little privacy.
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She lives in a three-bedroom duplex with her 11-year-old daughter, paying $2,400 a month in rent.
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Davis, who shared a New York duplex with Stone, told CNN that the FBI called her at 6 a.m.
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Google held its developer's conference earlier this week, wowing and shocking the world with a demo of Google Duplex.
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In the spring of 2014, he and his wife, Dana, settled into a duplex in the Miracle Mile district.
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They also lived for many years in an art-filled ground-floor duplex apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan.
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To survive on my mother's meager income as a teacher, we moved into a duplex owned by my grandparents.
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When Ilene Antelman arrived at a client's Manhattan duplex in December of 2016, she was in a good mood.
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In April, they sold for $17.75 million a duplex co-op at 271 Central Park West, at 86th Street.
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The owners, Erna Kaaber and Helen Olafsdottir, are giving the duplex space homey touches, with personal artifacts and photos.
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One example is "Pretty Women: A Real Housewives Musical Revue," a multilayered parody happening at the Duplex on Wednesday.
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Now lives: in a duplex in the East Village and, on occasion, his parents' apartment near Washington Square Park.
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For young people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the Duplex continues to serve as a haven.
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In the downstairs two-bedroom duplex where she lives, she rents out the extra bedroom for $2000 a night.
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He said the homeowner lived at the duplex with a longtime friend and that they both had health issues.
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The five-story residential building, which has 7,200 square feet, was renovated in 2017 to include three duplex apartments.
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We have a duplex with a garden on the roof, and by March, we're outside gardening on Sunday mornings.
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The hotel's largest suite, known as the Trump Townhouse, is a 6,300-square-foot duplex with a private entrance.
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Only months after its unveiling, Duplex was moved to public testing in major markets like New York and San Francisco.
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Duplex also can be used to check business information if it hasn't been updated on Google — like hours of operation.
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Google omitted this small but important detail when it first introduced Duplex at its I/O developer conference in May.
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The family is renting a modest duplex around the corner as they try to come up with a new plan.
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According to Google, Duplex is able to schedule appointments and book restaurant reservations by making actual phone calls for you.
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When asked for an email address instead of a phone number, Duplex said it wasn't authorized to provide that info.
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Google's AI feature, named Duplex, called the restaurant, spoke on the phone to the restaurant's host and booked my reservation.
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Update, 2:14 PM ET: Added Google's clarification about how Reserve with Google is different from the full Duplex experience.
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Coryn Price says her family was never told to stay out of the duplex, where they continued to pay rent.
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Google's Duplex tests involve a mix of the two; some are led by Googlers, while others let the AI steer.
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But if you specify "make a dinner reservation" or "make a lunch reservation," that should be enough to activate Duplex.
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Davis's Duplex has a similar conceit: a suburban America that transforms into a dreamscape of witches, robots, murder, and monsters.
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In a restaurant in Mountain View, California yesterday, Google gave several small groups of journalists a chance to demo Duplex.
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Google will also allow businesses to opt-out of being called by Duplex — likely through the "Google My Business" portal.
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When you set up Duplex on your Google Assistant, you'll give it a few pieces of information and some permissions.
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Huffman says that right now four out of five calls that Duplex makes can be handled without the human operator.
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We've got Apple acknowledging the problem with its MacBook keyboards, Google demoing Duplex, and Apple releasing the Mojave public beta.
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And as a reminder, even though Google's Duplex is quite a feat, natural language processing (NLP) is far from solved.
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Google Duplex, a Google Assistant-powered phone call service, is finally coming to devices that the majority of people own.
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A duplex on Pacific Street in Crown Heights, for $2,300, had three bedrooms covering 53,200 square feet, plus a backyard.
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At present, Google says Duplex is able to complete four out of five fully automated tasks, according to the company.
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To start, Duplex will be focused on a couple of narrow use cases: car bookings and movie ticketing, Pichai said.
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Duplex will then open the car rental company's website and fill out all of the necessary information on your behalf.
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She sold her Beverly Hills duplex in 2015 for $2.8 million, almost twice what she paid for it in 2012.
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Although Mosby's mother and uncle shared the duplex around the corner, Mosby spent much of her childhood with her grandparents.
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According to the New York Post, Mauro Maccioni, former co-owner of Le Cirque, listed his Sutton Place maisonette duplex.
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The duplex is located at 444 East 57th St. The building sits between the Upper East Side and Midtown East.
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Mauro Maccioni is selling his maisonette duplex in the same building for $1.85 million, according to Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
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The project involves building 426 duplex units and 36 single home villas priced between 530,000 and 590,13 riyals ($141,000-$157,000).
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I asked for a phone number and Google Duplex provided one, then we confirmed the appointment and I hung up.
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Lane has always had an eye, and that extends to the stylish bounty in his packed-to-the-brim duplex.
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Mr. Pickett's place is a two-in-one spot that opened in a duplex just north of Soho last September.
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"Duplex can only carry out natural conversations after being deeply trained in such domains," according to a Google blog post.
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"Duplex can carry out natural-sounding conversations in a specific area, like customer service for the cable company," Gunkel said.
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Such discretion has practical benefits in a luxury tower where a five-bedroom duplex penthouse is listed for $19.53 million.
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"Man, you left too early," Mr. Theroux said when I met him outside his Greenwich Village duplex around 1 p.m.
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For the past two years Mr. Motz, 50, has lived in a three-bedroom, duplex townhouse in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn.
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They spent 40 years in an affordable duplex in the most cinematic part of the West Village, so why move?
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We decided to return to our families in Baltimore and bought half a duplex on the edge of the city.
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To test Google Duplex, we used a pair of Google's Pixel smartphones, which include the company's virtual assistant by default.
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There's also Duplex Planet Illustrated, a comic book adaptation featuring illustrations by Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, James Kochalka, and others.
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Sting's duplex penthouse at the limestone-clad 15 Central Park West, between 943st and 62nd Streets, measures 5,417 square feet.
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Topping the list was a palatial duplex at 834 Fifth Avenue that was home to the investment banker John Gutfreund.
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It includes 12 apartments, 10 of which are full-floor units, and two on the lower floors are duplex maisonettes.
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When I bought my first duplex in 2003, I believed that real estate investing would reward a thoughtful, steady mindset.
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"We cater to tourists, bridge and tunnel, and neighborhood locals," said Tony DiCicco, who has owned the Duplex since 2004.
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The units for sale — a three-floor penthouse suite and a second duplex apartment — are listed together for $37.5 million.
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Last year Google revealed Duplex, a system that uses realistic synthetic speech to make automated calls to restaurants and stores.
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In Spuyten Duyvil, the Bronx, a duplex co-op in a 1964 building was $445,803, with maintenance of around $1,800.
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Last summer, they considered a one-bedroom duplex co-op on Seventh Avenue for $699,000, with maintenance of around $900.
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She said she told Oakman that she wanted to leave his duplex that night, but he would not allow it.
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Google did something similar earlier this year when it brought the Google Duplex AI phone call feature to Android and iOS.
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Google Duplex, a tool that can make appointments for people, is slated to begin being tested within Google Assistant this summer.
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On Tuesday, a team from Billy L. Nabors Demolition tore down a duplex located at 7601 Calypso Drive in Rowlett, Texas.
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Called Duplex, it's intended to make people's lives easier by handling standard phone calls that are necessary, but not especially personal.
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A 1000-year-old woman was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in the bedroom of a Fort Worth, Texas, duplex.
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A 22016-year-old woman was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in the bedroom of a Fort Worth, Texas, duplex.
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And once Duplex has a chance to test its skills checking holiday hours, booking reservations and making hair appointments are next.
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"Now that I have a duplex and can make rent, I get to watch all the white girl shows," Mailhot said.
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Because the application of the Duplex technology does not sit within the context of a high profile and well understood competition.
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That includes making sure that Duplex will make itself "appropriately identified" in the future, for the benefit of all parties involved.
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Last year at Google I/O, the company wowed the audience by showcasing Duplex as a way to make restaurant reservations.
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Starting this week, Pixel 3 owners in 43 U.S. states will be able to use the Duplex technology to book appointments.
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Image by Enio FLindsay Diaz and Alan Cutter were the proud owners of two halves of a duplex in Rowlett, Texas.
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Google's Duplex, an AI-enabled personal assistant launched in 2018, can so far make appointments only for hair salons and restaurants.
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Google is evolving Duplex, the AI bot that calls restaurants to make reservations, to also handle some tasks on the web.
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I'll admit that when I answered the phone at Oren's Hummus Shop, I tried hard to trip up the Duplex bot.
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According to Google's support site, Duplex has started rolling out to iOS and non-Pixel Android devices, as spotted by 9to5Google.
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The company recently told The New York Times that Duplex calls are often still made by human operators at call centers.
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Most recently, Google made Duplex available in 12 U.S. states and added support for iOS users via the Google Assistant app.
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This was the scenario: Duplex would make the call for a reservation, while reporters played the role of the restaurant's waitstaff.
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Duplex represents a rare early look into an ongoing project from a company notorious for playing it close to the vest.
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Wilson saved $2000,2401 in the year he spent in the duplex, and used $234,153 as a down payment on a condo.
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The baseball legend recounted how he started investing in a small duplex that grew into a large entity called ARod Corp.
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Her eight properties include a $29 million estate in Beverly Hills and a $20 million duplex penthouse in New York City.
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Mike Jones, 57, has lived in a duplex on a small hill overlooking the alley and backyard where the shooting occurred.
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The Fox Den 10993, as the new digs were christened, was a three-bedroom duplex by the Bedford Avenue subway station.
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Why it matters: The move comes just after Google debuted its impressive, but controversial Duplex speech technology at Google I/O.
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"And if we ever live together, it would have to be in a duplex, because I really like my little world."
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He is also part of a group that purchased the "Winter Garden" duplex penthouse at One57 in 953 for $91.5 million.
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When they rolled up to our duplex a little while later, both the pink-cheeked baby and his father were exultant.
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On the Upper West Side, Mr. Willis sold a duplex at 271 Central Park West, at 87th Street, for $153 million.
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Kevin Thompson, the pilot's production designer, borrowed two floors of the Council on Foreign Relations, dressing it as a penthouse duplex.
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We tested Duplex for several days, calling more than a dozen restaurants, and our tests showed a heavy reliance on humans.
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For the restaurants that took reservations only over the phone, Google offered to step in and place the call with Duplex.
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Duplex is proficient at making a restaurant reservation over the phone, but much like Facebook, Google still leans on human intelligence.
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It destroyed 55 homes, a church, four businesses, a duplex and part of the local housing authority building, the authorities said.
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But they lost money on the sale and instead moved into a duplex owned by her mother, who also lived there.
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If you read Google's public statement about Google Duplex, you'll discover that the initial scope of the project is surprisingly limited.
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The most expensive "room" in the hotel is the Royal Suite, an incredible duplex that costs up to $12,341 per night.
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Ms. McNeely, a veteran Broadway hand, and her husband had recently put their two-bedroom Hell's Kitchen duplex on the market.
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I was also shown the two-bedroom, duplex Penthouse suite, which is more commonly used for events than actual guest stays.
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An antiques dealer occupies a commercial duplex, using the ground floor as an office and the floor above as a gallery.
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One early place was a duplex with around 875 square feet in a 0003-year-old boutique condominium building in Gowanus.
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Pending approval from the state attorney general's office, there will also be a two-bedroom penthouse duplex; a townhouse unit with 14-foot-plus ceilings and a yard; and a maisonette duplex with a recreation room in the cellar, according to James Lansill, a senior managing director of the Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, which is handling sales.
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As for businesses, Duplex will be an opt-in service, which should prevent Google from clogging up the phone with unwanted calls.
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However, for a project that was only revealed to the public less than two months ago, Duplex has shown some incredible results.
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If it works as advertised, Google Duplex could make your life a lot better, especially if you don't like making phone calls.
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Google first announced Duplex last year as a voice assistant that can make calls on your behalf to make a restaurant reservation.
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Armed with submachine guns and flash-bang grenades, task force members broke down the door to a friend's duplex he was visiting.
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And of course, not being up front that Duplex is artificial embeds all sorts of other knock-on risks, as King explained.
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Bush initially told Reuters the Guard had permanently removed the Prices from the duplex immediately upon learning of Emily's first high test.
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But the exchange between Duplex and a restaurant on the other side of the call is raising some early concerns about transparency.
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Keep in mind that for now, Google is only making Duplex reservations with partner restaurants and not any random spot you want.
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But at this early beta stage, there's no guarantee that Duplex can actually call and make reservations at any of those places.
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Duplex identifies that it's calling from Google and notes that the call may be recorded before moving on to your reservation details.
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If it's the AI doing the calling — and most Duplex calls fall under this — Google will acknowledge that the call is automated.
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Google isn't yet offering any transcription of Duplex calls, nor are you able to listen to an audio recording after the fact.
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While Google Duplex generated controversy and discussion around artificial intelligence, Microsoft has been testing similar technology with millions of people in China.
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Google Duplex being available to the public has given us our first opportunity to see how the service actually works in practice.
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While the company doesn't mention the name, it's clear Contact Center AI is similar to the work Google is doing on Duplex.
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"It's time to go!" she growls and makes a big scene of shoving me onto the driveway of her Silver Lake duplex.
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When Google first demonstrated its AI phone-calling technology Duplex back in May, the pre-recorded demo struck many observers as eerie.
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Huffman played one of the first Duplex phone calls ever made, when the bot tried to reserve a table at a restaurant.
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Google knocked everyone's socks off with a demonstration of Duplex, a human-sounding AI capable of making phone calls on your behalf.
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At this year's I/O developer conference Google CEO Sundar Pichai once again took the stage to deliver some Duplex-related news.
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During the press briefing I attended, another reporter had his call cut short after Duplex abruptly hung up after misunderstanding a question.
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Duplex operates through a complex combination of speech to text, text to speech and Google's own WaveNet audio processing deep neural network.
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Now, Google is gearing up to launch Duplex on the Web, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O this morning.
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Google could easily do away with all of those questions around Duplex by simply answering them, but so far, that's not happening.
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There are also duplex penthouses, with up to 26-foot ceilings and 270-degree views, courtesy of windows curved like clover leaves.
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The duplex galleries are larger than the old ones, though they feel boxy and closed-in, at least for this inaugural offering.
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While Google's Duplex is an AI system specifically trained for a narrow set of circumstances over the phone, it's only the beginning.
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"Keeping it as open to the audience as possible, while still creating a claustrophobic duplex space has been our challenge," he said.
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The 8,000-square-foot duplex has more than 80 windows, which provide 360-degree views of the Holy City's steeple-filled skyline.
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In August 2015, Christy Liu, Mr. Schneyer and Lindsay Liu and her boyfriend purchased a one-bedroom duplex in Williamsburg for $839,000.
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The FBI also executed a search warrant at Stone's New York residence, according to Kristin Davis who shares the duplex with Stone.
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I had the chance to answer the phone and take a reservation from Duplex, much like a restaurant host or hostess could.
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If one bedroom was larger than the other, they would divide the rent accordingly, as they had in the five-bedroom duplex.
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The duplex space has a pair of intimate dining rooms: 80 North Sixth Street (Wythe Avenue), Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-210-3152, riderbklyn.com.
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Google's Duplex calls still frequently require human intervention Google's AI-based reservation booking service seems almost too impressive to be a machine.
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Cheung, the assistant administrator at the law firm Ostrolenk Faber, purchased a two-bedroom duplex condo facing Prospect Park for under $300,000.
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And at 15 Central Park West, another Robert A.M. Stern limestone condominium, a duplex owned by the British musician Gordon Sumner, a.k.a.
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And Bob Weinstein, the younger brother and business partner of the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, sold a duplex for $20.5 million.
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It opened in 1907, designed by George Keister for David Belasco, who put a 10-bedroom duplex apartment for himself on top.
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About a block away, at 215 Park Avenue and 15st Street, another Candela-designed co-op, a duplex, closed at $5003 million.
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Plus, they rent out two of the bedrooms in their half of the duplex, one for $1,200 and the other for $800.
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The reason Google Duplex is so narrow in scope isn't that it represents a small but important first step toward such goals.
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Later, farther south in Park Slope, she visited a duplex studio loft of around 700 square feet in a small condo building.
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She used the cash to buy her first rental property: a two-unit duplex in the inner city, where housing was cheapest.
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In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a spacious one-bedroom, one-bath, 1,142-square-foot duplex on the top two floors of an elevator building.
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What you Get A modernist duplex in Miami Beach, a 1928 home in Fort Wayne and a 1979 ranch house in Hollis.
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The priciest unit currently listed, a $13.18 million duplex penthouse, is under contract, said Raizy Haas, a senior vice president at Extell.
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But there was a catch: It was actually a one-bedroom duplex with a large loft space rather than a second bedroom.
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At first, Google reps played it straight, posing as the host of the restaurant while Duplex made reservations using info provided by crowd.
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When one person asked if they were talking to a person or a computer, Duplex responded by identifying itself as an automated assistant.
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However, being the accommodating digital assistant that is, Duplex didn't give up, and instead asked about moving the reservation up to 5:30.
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Occupation: Financial Aid SpecialistIndustry: Higher Education Age: 23Location: ArkansasSalary: $36,000Paycheck Amount (Biweekly): $1,042.59 Monthly ExpensesRent: $600 for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex.
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Google's original Duplex demo at last year's Google I/O stole the show because the virtual voice making the reservation sounded so realistic.
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Duplex on the web isn't a voice bot, but rather artificial intelligence, right on the phone, that can fill out forms for you.
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Members of the tactical team found an opening in the cellar wall that led to the other side of the duplex, McKeon said.
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In other instances, though, some restaurants aren't even picking up Google Duplex calls at all since the caller ID looks potentially like spam.
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Google has an army of lawyers, and consent would have been one of the first things they tackled in the deployment of Duplex.
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A core 'uncanny valley-ish' paradox may explain Google's choice of deception for its Duplex demo: Humans don't necessarily like speaking to machines.
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Her new home is barely a mile south of the Bowery, but a far piece in spirit from the duplex she gave up.
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After Google first revealed Duplex and the wow factor of its stunning demo wore off, people were quick to raise concerns about disclosure.
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Half of calls will be spam in 2019 Call Screen, based on Google's Duplex technology, is a big step for our smart devices.
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Google has the better A.I. Phone The news of Call Screen, and of Duplex more broadly, is another shot fired across Apple's bow.
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Duplex doesn't yet work on Android phones from other companies or on devices like Google Home speakers or smart displays with Google Assistant.
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Duplex will launch in experimental form this summer and allow consumers to have it call businesses to make restaurant reservations or hair appointments.
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Another example from the internet world involves Google Duplex, a clever feature for Android phone users that allows AI to make restaurant reservations.
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Google Duplex, the automated service that calls up businesses to make bookings on your behalf, has received a limited public launch, reports VentureBeat.
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Update 7/24, 2:54PM ET: Clarified that Contact Center AI and Duplex are distinct products but share similarities and some underlying tech.
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Right now, Google says its is limiting the Duplex technology to very specific domains, but Havens sees potential for expansion of those limits.
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Each of the Duplex calls were being initiated by a Google Assistant request off of a laptop, just feet away in the restaurant.
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"Purple was her favorite color," said Wilson, recalling that Heyer shared a duplex apartment in Charlottesville with a beloved pet Chihuahua named Violet.
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The smize inventor and America's Next Top Model impresario is letting go of her 7,000 square-foot condo duplex in New York City.
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With Duplex and Smart Compose, Google bases its algorithms on established social norms and behaviors, which it attempts to codify and algorithmically mimic.
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Most commonly, you buy a small multi-unit real estate property (usually a duplex), live in one unit, and rent out the others.
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The layout was right, with the three-bedroom owner's duplex on the garden and parlor floors, and a two-bedroom rental on top.
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Duplex, as Google demonstrated in the video above, was a scary-smart virtual assistant capable of calling a restaurant to book a reservation.
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Kristin Davis, also known as the "Manhattan Madam," told CNN that authorities also searched a New York duplex that she shares with Stone.
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His ailing grandmother, the owner of the duplex, needs him like he once needed her, so when he's not rapping, he's a caregiver.
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The month before, he deeded to Ms. Ackman another duplex in the Beresford, at 211 Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Streets.
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The other is a duplex with a living room, bathroom and kitchen on the third level and a bedroom on the fourth level.
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In other words, Duplex, which Google first showed off last year as a technological marvel using A.I., is still largely operated by humans.
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Google said that Duplex was sometimes relying on people in part because it was taking a conservative approach to be respectful toward businesses.
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On Saturday, the home attendant called the couple's family after no one answered the door to their duplex on Garden Street in Bushwick.
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In Turtle Bay, a sunny one-bedroom, one-bath duplex apartment, in a prewar doorman building that used to be a theological seminary.
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After months of fruitless searching, the Feuers immediately fell for the 3,000-square-foot duplex apartment, which had three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
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TMZ's obtained video of the vile incident, which we're told occurred Thursday evening at a duplex residence in L.A.'s Hancock Park neighborhood.
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Late last May, they moved from their duplex to a four-bedroom house, using some of the money to fill it with furniture.
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They moved last August into a sunny two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath duplex with pretty, old-fashioned windows overlooking Warren Street.
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After going through a discothèque phase in the '70s, the Duplex returned to its cabaret roots, moving to 61 Christopher Street in 1989.
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The Rabbit is a charging system that can secure to any standard duplex outlet and integrates a retractable charging cable into your walls.
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The listing on Compass asks for $37.5 million for two units: a three-floor penthouse and a duplex apartment on the first floor.
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After selling their penthouse duplex for just under $6 million, they bought a larger penthouse in the same building for nearly $7.3 million.
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Just like with Google Duplex, AI that works on your behalf will give you back time you can use to do something productive.
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Google Duplex, the human-sounding AI assistant that can make phone calls for you, stunned us when it was demoed earlier this week.
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While impressive, Duplex has also received backlash in the past few days, leaving Google to stress about transparency in the technology, reports CNET.
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Google has begun rolling out its futuristic Duplex feature, which can automatically make voice calls to restaurants and other businesses on a user's behalf, to a small group of Pixel owners in "select" cities around the US. VentureBeat managed to test out Duplex in the real world and recorded what the experience is like when initiating a call through Google Assistant.
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Google tells TechCrunch its Duplex-powered Google Assistant feature for restaurant booking began its expansion to both iOS and Android 5.0+ devices last week.
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For $3,200 a month, an apartment in the West 70s was listed as a one-bedroom duplex, but was more like a basement studio.
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And when a person posing as a host asked if anyone in the party had any allergies, Duplex simply responded that it didn't know.
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On a complete whim, and because I was using Google's new Pixel 3, I decided to see if Duplex was available in my area.
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That brings us to the final seven states where Duplex isn't available as of this announcement: Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Indiana, Texas, and Nebraska.
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Breakfast came, and instead of hot meals, the staff handed out brown paper bags containing a cold cheese sandwich, milk, and six Duplex cookies.
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" Leigh Tuttle, a major's wife, said when her family moved into a renovated 1980s duplex in 2016, the place smelled like a "wet dog.
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The search for Jorge Zambrano, 35, a suspect with an "extensive criminal history," led authorities to a duplex apartment in nearby Oxford, said Col.
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As well as a lack of visible safeguards in the Duplex demo, there's also — I would argue — a curious lack of imagination on display.
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When I asked if Duplex introduced itself as a robot and warned that the call might be recorded, Myriah says she can't exactly recall.
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She did note, however, that she never would have guessed that she was speaking to an AI if I hadn't told her about Duplex.
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But there's a reason for it: this particular Duplex call was actually handled by a human, according to people familiar with the early tests.
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When a human operator at Google places a Duplex call, they don't necessarily disclose anything about Google Assistant or note it's an automated call.
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Another well-known trick is to switch to duplex printing, which prints two pages on one sheet of paper, if your printer supports it.
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Onstage, Google didn't talk much about the details of how the feature, called Duplex, works, but an accompanying blog post adds some important context.
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In its blog post, Google says Duplex has a "self-monitoring capability" that allows it to recognize when conversations have moved beyond its capabilities.
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Duplex only works in English for now, but Google has worked to ensure that it is able to understand lots of dialects and accents.
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My call should have been handed off to a human operator at that point, but instead Duplex misunderstood my meaning about the kitchen closing.
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One of Google's biggest announcements yesterday was its work on Duplex, which will let the Assistant make phone calls for users and schedule appointments.
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The company's Duplex software already mimics human voices, and can carry out basic tasks like booking a haircut or a table at a restaurant.
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He cited the example of Google Duplex, an offshoot of Google Assistant that can call restaurants for you if you have a Pixel phone.
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IBM's demo of Project Debater comes a month after Google released audio of a bot called Duplex booking restaurants and haircuts over the phone.
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Even within the U.S., Duplex still doesn't work in Texas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kentucky, Indiana, Montana and Louisiana due to "local laws," according to Fortune.
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When Google launched Duplex with a demo at I/O last year, the audience was left wondering how much of the call was staged.
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Some of them take place in the Novogratzes' vast Tribeca apartment (joining Robert De Niro's former duplex and Harvey Keitel's former one-story pad).
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The shabby, no-light, duplex apartment that is home to the "The Humans," this year's Tony winner for best new play, is moving uptown.
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That night in Miami, in my mother's duplex, after she'd fallen asleep, I cleared the bottles and cleaned the floors and fed the cats.
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In the coming weeks, a small number of Google users will be able to try Duplex by asking it for holiday hours at restaurants.
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Google on Wednesday announced that it's human-sounding artificial intelligence that can book a restaurant reservation for you, Google Duplex, is coming to iPhones.
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With five children, her husband's $35,000 income and $1,500 rent for a two-bedroom duplex, she said she could not afford the $40 fine.
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The Park Avenue home of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has had a price drop: The Manhattan duplex is now listed at $27.5 million.
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When her marriage finally ended, her husband moved out of the duplex, and in 1966 she married Mr. Bertschmann — "my true love," she said.
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The hedge fund manager William Ackman deeded to his former wife a duplex valued at $15 million, as part of an apparent property settlement.
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The next day, however, we tested Duplex at the same Tibetan restaurant, and it again used a human caller despite our earlier, successful booking.
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Archibald, an affable Canadian in his mid-fifties, greeted us at the door of his Spanish-style duplex home, where he lives and teaches.
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In 2015, Nina Lubin, 34, bought a two-bedroom duplex with her husband in a new condo in Riverdale, the Bronx, paying around $500,000.
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Gordon's duplex on Sausalito Boulevard traveled about a block down the hill before slamming into another home, destroying both homes, sometime before 3 a.m.
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He has a husband now, the dramaturge John Baker; a young daughter, Frances Hunter-Baker; a gleaming duplex in Manhattan's Inwood; the MacArthur grant.
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A past president of the city's preservation alliance had sought to prevent the demolition of the existing building, a duplex from the late 1800s.
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And it's important to keep in mind that Duplex is just an experiment, and it may never be released publicly in its current form.
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A Word With The sky was gray and drizzly outside the 54th-floor duplex in the Time Warner Center where Woody Harrelson was staying.
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The Hunt John Minardo and Jeff Sniggs live in a one-bedroom duplex in a co-op building in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.
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The mock kitchen and bathroom offer a glimpse of the refined finishes one would expect in a building with a $41 million duplex penthouse.
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The record is currently held by a duplex at the pinnacle of One57, in the heart of Billionaires' Row at 157 West 57th Street.
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The gallery is owned by Cheryl Mack, 215, and Christopher Mack, 893, transplants from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, who rent a three-bedroom duplex nearby.
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The third floor houses another art gallery, and the top two floors have two apartments — a three-bedroom duplex and an alcove penthouse studio.
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I had just moved from Ohio to my mother's duplex that month and was looking forward to living in the city of my birth.
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At Oren's, the Duplex recording Google showed off both identified itself as "Google Assistant" and alerted the restaurant that it was recording the call.
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Google recently repitched Duplex to explicitly reveal to restaurant hosts and salon staff that they are speaking with the Google Assistant and are being recorded.
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When she and her husband moved into a much-larger two-bedroom duplex in Dallas neighborhood Lower Greenville, she had even more room to play.
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But regardless of the curveballs the four people who demoed the system ahead of me lobbed at Duplex, each call ended with a successful reservation.
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Google wowed people with its demo of Duplex that included the AI assistant inserting "um" and "uh" sounds to make the conversation seem more fluid.
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Age: 37Year purchased: 2014House cost: $102,000Down payment: $5,2003Monthly payment: $765 I decided to buy a home after renting a broken-down duplex for seven years.
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For now, Duplex will only be available in New York, Atlanta, Phoenix, and San Francisco, but will roll out to other cities in the future.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: When we first moved to New York 11 years ago, it was into a lovely, and affordable, duplex in Fort Greene.
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At the Duplex, she mounted "Deleted Scenes from Fun Home," a production that mixed stand-up comedy with reflections of seeing that hit Broadway musical.
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Instead of just confirming a booking for you, users can scan the auto-filled forms to approve what Duplex has written in before moving forward.
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The post also noted that if the restaurant was already taking reservations through one of Google's booking partners, then it wouldn't receive these Duplex calls.
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Nilay, Paul, and Dieter jump into other Google-related topics, like what's happening to YouTube Red, Google Duplex theories, and a list of gadget news.
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In current testing, Google notes that Duplex successfully completes most conversations and tasks on its own without any intervention from a person on Google's end.
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Duplex, as was shown at I/O, doesn't allow users to access any recordings or even to listen in on the conversation as it's happening.
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Scott, for example, hired a consultant, a former employee of his local permitting department, to walk him through the process of building his first duplex.
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Google I/O was awash with Assistant news, but Duplex mystery aside, Continued Conversation was easily one of the most compelling announcements of the bunch.
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Significantly more people have iPhones and Android phones from companies like Samsung, so this rollout could be considered the legitimate launch of the Duplex service.
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Duplex calling restaurant reservations initially rolled out to a small group of Pixel users and in three cities including New York, San Francisco, and Phoenix.
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It's a tiny sliver you could balance on your pinky toenail, with four antennas that provide full duplex communication for sending and receiving radar pings.
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But what about the strange but obvious consequence of tech like Duplex: Where a growing portion of phone calls is just bots talking to bots?
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The company is finally ready to offer a little more insight into Duplex, the most widely discussed — and controversial announcement during a rapid-fire keynote.
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The 26 market-rate apartments range from 1,600-square-foot two-bedroom units to a 0003,400-square-foot four-bedroom duplex with a generous terrace.
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This property might be a duplex, an apartment building or, depending on the location, a single-family house that could eventually become a retirement home.
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Their new home is a 1,446-square-foot one-bedroom duplex in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Ravello has quick and easy access to a patio.
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Google's Duplex project is starting to move toward allowing humans to have natural conversations with artificial intelligence as if one was talking to another person.
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Actor and comedian My first gay bar in New York was the Duplex, because it was kind of a soft launch into the gay world.
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Lerner claimed to have enjoyed a happy childhood, spending part of his youth in a duplex on Verndale Street, about two miles from Fenway Park.
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The 3,636-square-foot building features updated plumbing and electrical work, as well as three floor-through rental apartments and a duplex professional office space.
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When Google revealed Duplex, some onlookers questioned whether it was ethical for Google to call humans without revealing that they were speaking to a robot.
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Writing from the perspective of someone living in a 5,000-square-foot duplex on Fifth Avenue, Mr. Kirshenbaum, an advertising executive, isn't agitating for upheaval.
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Google's new Duplex is an artificial intelligence speech system that sets up appointments and performs other clerical tasks, like a receptionist or human assistant might.
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So Ross Evangelista, their agent with Stribling, offered an alternative: a roughly 1,1003-square-foot duplex "studio" in a prewar co-op in Midtown East.
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And the estate of the noted writer and editor Jean Stein sold her Gracie Square duplex, where Ms. Stein jumped to her death last year.
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When Josh moved out of their house into a duplex, we had family dinners and celebrated holidays together to ease the transition for the girls.
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He lived with his mother in a duplex they shared with her parents, who introduced him to "Your Show of Shows" and Abbott and Costello.
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In September, Mr. Ackman deeded to Ms. Ackman a duplex at the Beresford co-op, at 210 Central Park West between 2620st and 265nd Streets.
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The building dates from the early 280s, and is configured with a two-bedroom duplex with a garden, as well as two one-bedroom apartments.
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He takes medication for high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, and struggles to pay the $1,200 monthly rent for his duplex apartment, he said.
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The couple now live in a playfully decorated penthouse duplex in a condominium on the Upper West Side with their two daughters, 10 and 4.
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The program, known as Duplex, is an automated voice assistant capable of making hair appointments, booking restaurant reservations and conducting other tasks over the phone.
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But within a few months, the residents of the five-bedroom duplex below became the defining element of their living experience — in a good way.
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Throughout the morning, investigators, some wearing latex gloves, converged on the brick duplex set back from 46th Street as onlookers, including several children, gathered outside.
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The master bedroom alone is 5,500 square feet — on par with the area of, say, a five-story Manhattan brownstone or a SoHo penthouse duplex.
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In her light-filled duplex in the 17th Arrondissement, Guelimi teaches a mix of yin, prenatal and postnatal yoga to private clients and small groups.
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During December, their duplex had been ravaged by a tornado, but Diaz and Cutter were starting to make repairs and return to normal, WFAA 8 reports.
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At Google's demo event, conversations between Duplex and mix of presenters and attendees played out almost exactly like they did on the stage back at Google.
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When I explained that I had used Google Duplex from my phone to book it, and that Google did it all for me, he was amazed.
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Last year had a stunning demo of Google Duplex — and after the internet finished being stunned it started wondering about the ethics of robots calling humans.
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The most well known of these is Google Duplex, a (mostly) automated voice assistant that's able to call up restaurants on your behalf and make reservations.
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Google's Duplex, which calls businesses on your behalf and imitates a real human, ums and ahs included, has sparked a bit of controversy among privacy advocates.
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Ergo, Google's PR flavored 'AI test' for Duplex is also rigged in its favor — to further supercharge a one-way promotional marketing message around artificial intelligence.
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However, a few minutes after she hung up, Duplex called again to confirm the name on the reservation, but this time, it had a different voice.
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Google is piloting its Duplex service outside of the US for the first time, with a new trial to confirm holiday opening hours in New Zealand.
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Google today announced it'll start rolling out Duplex, its controversial Google Assistant feature that can make phone calls on your behalf, to Pixel phones next month.
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The post also instructs restaurant owners on being prepared for Google Duplex calls, saying, there's "no learning curve" and no extra steps to get set up.
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For instance, Duplex is so convincingly human-sounding because Google includes ticks like "uh" and "um" and other more colloquial phrases into the Assistant's verbal library.
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In one call, Duplex told the human on the phone it wasn't authorized to share an email address but could share a phone number, for example.
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Boxes upon boxes destined for Amazon warehouses started stacking up in Grant's duplex so, in the spring of 21, he rented out a 292-foot warehouse.
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When my dad upgraded from the duplex to a new house, Angie moved in with him and brought her constant urge to turn up with her.
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You might remember Duplex from a shocking demonstration back in May, when Google showed how the software could call a hair salon and book an appointment.
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Google is replacing Android's "Chrome Home" bottom bar with a new "Chrome Home Duplex" featuring a sliding toolbar that shows recent tabs and suggests new tabs.
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It's not entirely clear how this will work, but Google says people can opt out while on the phone with Duplex or via an online form.
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"The Google Duplex technology is built to sound natural, to make the conversation experience comfortable," the company wrote in a blog post tied to the announcement.
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"There were a lot of people who would look at you funny, when we first moved here," Ms. Mills said inside her tidy two-bedroom duplex.
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I guess the ghost of vape smoke, in an expansive hotel duplex high up on the rooftop overlooking a strange city, just isn't quite the same.
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Witness, for example, Google's Duplex voice AI, heavily trained to perform very specific and pretty formulaic tasks — such as booking a hair appointment or a restaurant.
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Also, five of the six units will have terraces, including the duplex penthouse, which, according to Mr. Shvo, has a ceiling that stretches to 24 feet.
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Another evening, when he was walking down Avenue Montaigne, near the Canadian Embassy, he noticed a stylish duplex in which the lights remained on all night.
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Rolling Stones founding member Keith Richards and his wife, Patti Hansen, are selling their Greenwich Village duplex at One Fifth Avenue, which they've owned since 2014.
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In 2016, they hired Mr. Arfaoui to help convert the house into a two-over-two duplex so their daughter and her family could move in.
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The Vignelli Family Trust sold a duplex apartment at 2158 East 11.75th Street for $22007 million, which was $224,22015 below the original list price in January.
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After the fire, Ms. Cooper Cafritz moved into and renovated a glass, concrete and steel duplex condominium on Dupont Circle and began rebuilding her art collection.
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In the East Village, a 2,400-square-foot, one-bedroom, two-bath, ground-floor duplex with a professional recording studio, in a five-story prewar building.
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We witnessed or reviewed each of the phone calls, and the restaurants were made aware that we were testing Duplex before they picked up the phone.
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But then a lease takeover on Listings Project caught their attention: a two-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex on the top of an Upper West Side townhouse.
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On the tower floors above, the 426 apartment units range from studios starting at $2,800 to a duplex penthouse whose price has yet to be determined.
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I booked a maisonette but got upgraded to a duplex suite, with a coral and sea theme reflected in the color of the carpets and furniture.
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What you Get A beach house in Watsonville, a duplex loft in San Francisco and a Craftsman-style home with a guest cottage in Santa Barbara.
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" Matt Haughey, the creator of the internet forum MetaFilter, tweeted, "How Google did that Duplex A.I. voice demo without anyone flagging it internally is beyond me.
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The Ethicist I have lived for many years in a shotgun duplex house in New Orleans and had a harmonious relationship with my next-door neighbor.
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The sale also includes the duplex apartments on the first floor of the building, which are "perfect for guest or staff accommodations," according to the listing.
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They endured four summer months there before their caseworker at Wraparound, a social-services agency, found them a bottom duplex unit on Thirteenth Street and Keefe.
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One such is a 1,736-square-foot, three-bedroom duplex in a 19th-century former hospital building that is now part of a development called Quartermile.
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In the late nineteen-sixties, I lived in a duplex in an unglamorous corner of East Hollywood, California, sleeping in a room alongside my Guatemalan parents.
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Google's controversial Duplex service uses AI to mimic the voice of a real human being so that it can make phone calls on a user's behalf.
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What I Love You can see the Hudson rolling serenely along from the many windows in B. H. Barry's penthouse duplex on the Upper West Side.
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Six transactions there made the cut, including the year's top sale: the duplex combo on the 92nd and 93rd floors, which totals nearly 12,000 square feet.
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Some folks found the Duplex demo was scary as hell and worried about the ethical concerns of AI basically faking people out by pretending to be human.
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I had no issues, but I also didn't have to do some of the more complex things Google Duplex can do, like changing or canceling a reservation.
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Their rent, plus the money from a housemate in his side of the duplex, allows him to live rent-free plus collect an extra $250 a month.
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He's using the money he's saving on living expenses toward the FHA purchase of another duplex, which he will move into while renting out his first purchase.
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I lived and still live in a large duplex at the corner of Park Avenue and 280th Street, in a 1907 building designed by Delano and Aldrich.
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It's a large duplex apartment in a two-story home with laundry in the unit, which is kind of unbelievable, and we're pretty close to the train.
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The company has since vowed to be more transparent around Duplex disclosure when talking with humans who may not be aware they're speaking to an AI agent.
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Despite the numerous leaks about Google's new hardware, Call Screen and the launch of Duplex for restaurant reservations were big surprises coming from Google's hardware event yesterday.
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It's not exactly the same as Google Duplex, which uses the Assistant to make calls on your behalf, but instead it holds a phone conversation with you.
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Google will ensure that businesses won't receive too many calls from Duplex — say, for example, from people who might use it to prank restaurants with fake reservations.
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But Duplex can't handle everything, and so it will be paired with a bank of human operators who can take over a call if it goes sideways.
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I asked Huffman and Fox whether Google regretted showing off a carefully-produced Duplex demo back in May that offered little in terms of transparency or exposition.
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Duplex was first launched as an experiment several years ago, Google says, and was started by principal engineer Yaniv Leviathan and Yossi Matias, vice president of engineering.
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To the receptionist on the other end of the line, Duplex sounded like a bona fide person, complete with pauses and "ums" for more human-like authenticity.
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We used to live with my aunt in this duplex—my parents and I lived upstairs and my aunt lived downstairs and I'd run errands with her.
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A little-known part of it is the West Village townhouse at 23 Cornelia Street that she rented last year while her Tribeca duplex was being renovated.
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"There is a woman at our church who was like, 'You guys just need to marry brothers and get a duplex,' " Krissie told The Jackson Citizen Patriot.
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Duplex doesn't let on the fact that it's an AI — but if you have some familiarity with Google Assistant, you can probably put that part together yourself.
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The Google Duplex AI phone call service that was revealed last year could also be addressed, seeing as its availability is still somewhat limited a year later.
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The 8,000-square-foot duplex unfolds over the top two floors of The People's Building — the very first skyscraper built in state of South Carolina in 1911.
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Their current neighborhood, where the duplex is, has a median household income of just $34,000 a year, or around $20,000 less than what's typical for the region.
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There will be six duplexes, two of them penthouses and the other four on the 16th floor; each duplex will have a private 25-foot saltwater pool.
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So Google invited a group of reporters to a restaurant in New York City earlier this week to try Duplex for ourselves ahead of its limited launch.
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If I repeatedly ask Duplex, "How's the weather where you are?" and the system hasn't prepared that answer, I could theoretically get a person on the line.
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It had been believed that Palij would quietly live out his last years in a modest red-brick duplex in Jackson Heights, a diverse neighborhood of Queens.
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Rental prices range from around $6.403,100 a month for a one-bedroom in one of the older apartment complexes to $2,800 for a renovated four-bedroom duplex.
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In Lenox Hill, a one-bedroom, two-bath, ground-floor duplex with elaborate crown moldings and reclaimed oak flooring, in a prewar co-op near Central Park.
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Big ticket A fully renovated Greenwich Village house closed last month at $20073 million, a new high for downtown, while the producer Bob Weinstein sold his duplex.
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Prices range from $1.9 million for a 1,721-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment to $12 million for a 4,563-square-foot duplex with a large private garden.
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Since then, the developer has hired three different real estate brokerages to handle sales; the most expensive unit under contract so far is a $10.9 million duplex.
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Now they're selling that three-bedroom apartment, which is listed for $3.795 million with James Morgan of Compass, to move into a larger duplex in the building.
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Inspired by the stories of the elderly inhabitants, he began publishing a zine called Duplex Planet, which featured interviews with the residents of senior centers around Massachusetts.
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Mexican Federal police picked him up in a residential duplex on Sunday night, according to Lewis, who credits the NBPD podcast, "Countdown to Capture," with generating tips.
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In the West Village, a one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath duplex with tall ceilings, deep storage and a gentle breeze in a prewar walk-up.
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Construction to turn their two separate two-bedroom, one-bath apartments into a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath duplex lasted six months and cost $500,000.
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Baldwin and his wife live in a duplex in Burien, Washington, about a 15-minute drive from downtown Seattle, that they bought for $900,000 in August 593.
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"I do have fantasies about buying a duplex that my girlfriend and I can live in and only see each other when we want to," she said.
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The duplex first entered the market in April 2016 for $120 million and, as no buyers emerged, was steadily reduced; it was last listed for $59 million.
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His new 3,600-square-foot duplex has four bedrooms and four baths, in addition to striking park and cityscape vistas from its two terraces and oversize windows.
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Ms. Hunter and Isen had parts in the movie, and the family still keeps in touch with the Dunhams, who sold their duplex a few years ago.
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In May 2017, he made a 25 percent down payment ($53,000) to buy the other half of the duplex that he and his wife bought in 2015.
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But nearby, one duplex has holes in its windows, and another is smashed and boarded up, damaged by a car that careened into it not long ago.
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In Greenwich Village, a loft-style duplex apartment, with one bathroom and spacious sleeping quarters upstairs, in a seven-story prewar building with a live-in super.
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A stream of mourners on Wednesday paid a visit to his family home, one half of a two-story brick-and-siding duplex on East 105th Street.
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Voices My friends called it a boxcar, the tiny cream-colored duplex I rented in Austin 20 years ago, a long rectangle divided by doorways without doors.
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Mr. Wray, 613, was severely burned on Friday when a mysterious package left on the steps of his duplex in the Brookville neighborhood exploded in his hands.
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The penthouse was created when Neumann combined his $18 million duplex apartment on the top floor, and another unit below it he had purchased for $9.5 million.
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Two years ago, Google showed off Duplex, which allows AI to make human-like phone calls, while Microsoft is growing its Cortana platform to be increasingly responsive.
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"When I reached the last episode, I was so sad and excited," he recalled recently, seated beneath a domed ceiling in his sunny duplex, in Los Angeles.
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I Broke Google Duplex, But It's Still ImpressiveScreenshot: GoogleAmong updates about new features coming to Android P, a new direction for Android Wear, and improved image recognition in Google Lens, the thing that really stole the show at Google I/O 2018 was Duplex, the automated phone service that can make a dinner reservation or an appointment at a hair salon without you ever needing to actually dial a number.
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In addition to two terraces totaling 48 square meters, the duplex, which comprises the first two floors of the four-story villa, features 525 square meters of garden.
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Occupation: Director of Annual GivingIndustry: Private EducationAge: 29Location: Los Angeles, CASalary: $73,500Paycheck Amount (2x/month): $2,062 Monthly ExpensesRent: $600 for my share of a two-bedroom duplex apartment.
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What wasn't touched on was the possibility that Duplex may have a use on the other side of the line, taking over for call center employees and telemarketers.
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Backlash eventually made Google promise that Duplex will tell people they are speaking with AI, but the company still has a way to go to ease everyone's worries.
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According to The Information, "ethical concerns" overshadowed Google's demonstration of the Duplex technology, and the company interested in the assistant has pumped the brakes on the proposed project.
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Google has announced that it's expanding its Duplex reservation system — which has an AI-driven assistant make restaurant reservations for you — to a total of 43 US states.
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Google eventually cleared up that it would have Duplex disclose its identity in some way, but early users still felt that some of those disclosures were too vague.
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Maybe we'll even see a few updates for Duplex, its potentially time-saving, controversial feature that uses AI to place phone calls and make reservations on your behalf.
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The Duplex calling feature only kicks in for restaurants that aren't on those platforms and have opted into receiving calls from Google Assistant on their Google business page.
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Mitchell Duncan, 25, kept cycling through the line as the police told him he could not return to his rented duplex because it had yet to be inspected.
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"Google's experiments do appear to have been designed to deceive," agreed Dr Thomas King, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute's Digital Ethics Lab, discussing the Duplex demo.
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Deteriorating paint in old homes is the most common source of lead exposure, and three months earlier, the Prices had moved into a spacious duplex built in 1934.
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Google also declined to clarify whether a recording is being made when Duplex runs, and if so, whether Google would be retaining those recordings in the long term.
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When police arrived at a duplex in Carrollton, the twins were out of the car and in a kiddie pool, where their father was trying to revive them.
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It's clear there are still many unanswered questions about Duplex and how it will work, questions that even the most sophisticated of virtual assistants can't answer just yet.
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When Aisha Russell, 33, showed up to a duplex on New York City's posh Upper East Side this past year, she expected a regular three-hour cleaning job.
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"We are moving beyond voice," Pichai bragged to the crowd — apparently forgetting that the entire raison d'etre of Duplex was that it could make calls on your behalf.
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This summer, he and his wife sold their Park Avenue duplex for $25.25 million (admittedly, a discount from the co-op's original 2014 asking price of $44 million).
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Duplex: I'm actually booking on behalf of someone else, so I'm not sure what their preference is, uh, whatever you think will be nicer for dining is fine.
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Part of what's made Duplex demos so jarring is that the AI-generated voice throws in "um" and "uh" and "mhmm" with about the same frequency as humans.
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He seems unsure, but if the young man in the rear of the duplex is Swaye, could he please stop addressing his Amazon packages to the wrong unit?
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"All of us had the same plan, so we all hunkered down in this duplex in Alexandria for a year, and then we all bought houses," he said.
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Google's recent announcement of Duplex, "An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone," has once-again raised the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.
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On YouTube, I've been watching D.I.Y. home improvement videos because we bought a duplex near where we live in Big Bear, California, that needs a lot of work.
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Until now, Google had limited Duplex to its own Pixel devices, and there hasn't been much talk of when it might appear on iPhones or other Android devices.
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Google's demonstration of Duplex, "An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone," could be the customer-service killer app the government has been waiting for.
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He parlayed his way to the Mesquite deal from an initial investment with Eric in a duplex rental unit in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, some 9.453 years earlier.
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Their apartment, a duplex penthouse with a floating staircase, private roof and three terraces, is shrouded in scaffolding, damaged by water leaks and has been pelted with debris.
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A few weeks earlier, I had dragged it through Ikea and then lugged it up the stairs to the top floor of our second- and third-floor duplex.
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At the top, there is a 3,354-square-foot three-bedroom duplex penthouse for $12 million, where windows look out in all directions through the building's zigzagging structure.
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The most expensive South Williamsburg property was a $4.68 million, four-bedroom duplex condo loft on Wythe Avenue and South First Street, in a converted 1914 factory building.
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They stayed in the duplex for four decades, until about 3.53 years ago, when the landlord died and their rent (then $3,000 a month) was about to jump.
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In 2005, in search of more space for her family, she relocated from neighboring Brooklyn Heights, buying a three-bedroom duplex in a onetime soap factory for $930,000.
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It came through Google Duplex, a free service that uses artificial intelligence to call restaurants and — mimicking a human voice — speak on our behalf to book a table.
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In October, he transferred a duplex at 420 West Broadway in SoHo to his former wife, Karen Ackman, a landscape architect and artist whom he divorced last year.
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The unit, No. 28B, is a duplex with 2,175 square feet, configured with three bedrooms and three and a half baths, along with a den and dining room.
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As part of the police operation announced on Wednesday, authorities said they were also investigating the purchase of a luxury duplex apartment in an upscale Sao Paulo neighborhood.
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A few short blocks away, Mr. Thaw's estate sold his ground-floor duplex at 730 Park Avenue, at 71st Street, for $4 million to Andrew and Nathalie Scharf.
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She sees clients at her apartment, a cozy modern duplex on the outskirts of SoHo, or corresponds at length with them by email to develop the bespoke designs.
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He rents out the other half of the duplex he owns so that "it basically works out to be a free place for me to live," he explains.
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A few months before Arleen moved into the Thirteenth Street duplex, Sherrena Tarver wound her way through the North Side, listening to R. & B. with her window down.
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I was there just about every single night for months and I had my wife at that time bring me food and I would shower inside the duplex.
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"Like a python gradually swallowing a rabbit whole" is how she imagines Wolfe lurking in a corner of her parents' Park Avenue duplex on the evening of Jan.
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And Henry Jamison, 203, a singer-songwriter in Vermont, addresses what Rolling Stone magazine calls "violent interpretations of masculinity" in "Gloria Duplex," an album due out next month.
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And Henry Jamison, 30, a singer-songwriter in Vermont, addresses what Rolling Stone magazine calls "violent interpretations of masculinity" in "Gloria Duplex," an album due out next month.
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She and her husband, the jazz violinist Russell Farhang, rented the townhouse duplex near Gracie Mansion two years ago because of its Victorian woodwork, plaster molding and marble fireplaces.
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The video above shows the first public demonstration Google Duplex, a new experimental feature that lets Google Assistant call businesses on your behalf to get information or make reservations.
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Then, two years later, on March 0003, 2000, ICE showed up in the driveway of the Green Bay duplex where Lopez and his family had lived for seven years.
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In a demo, CEO Sundar Pichai showed how Duplex can fill out a car rental reservation form online, using your personal information, and submit the request on your behalf.
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During the course of writing this article we reached out to Google's press line several times to ask to discuss the ethics of Duplex with a relevant company spokesperson.
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In an early demonstration, Google says Duplex can now pull in your information and navigate the web for you to book other things like car rentals and movie tickets.
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An EF-3 tornado touched down in Franklin, Texas, destroying 55 homes, four businesses, a church, a duplex and part of a local housing authorities building, the AP reported.
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Still, Google Duplex brings up interesting questions about whether tech companies have an ethical responsibility to disclose when they've injected natural-looking and sounding AI into ordinary human interactions.
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The calling technology, called Duplex, is explained in a longer Google blog post that describes how the team is thinking about latency in responses and the Assistant's natural cadence.
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On stage at I/O, CEO Sundar Pichai said that Assistant/Duplex would record calls so that users could review the conversation later on to see how things went.
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When you get a call, you can tap the screen button, and the person on the other end hears a fairly natural, Duplex-style AI voice talking to them.
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Similar arches also ring a "sky garden" on the 2102th and 2200th levels, and a duplex penthouse at the top of the tower is framed by them as well.
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First, the people on the receiving end of the call were unaware that the voice speaking into the phone was a machine, meaning Duplex was essentially fooling unsuspecting humans.
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The Daily Show host closed on the Midtown Manhattan pad, a duplex that spans the 17th and 18th floors of a 1920s skyscraper, yesterday, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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Duplex has a lot of potential, but from the early rollout, it's clear there's still a ways to go before it can truly automate our least-favorite phone tasks.
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That demo drew lots of laughs at the keynote, but after the dust settled, plenty of ethical questions popped up because of how Duplex tries to fake being human.
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Google recently made headlines when CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated its latest development in voice — its Duplex AI system was used to book a hair appointment and a restaurant reservation.
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The system didn't get every word right, but other than that, it received hardly any criticism in comparison with the Google calling feature, which goes by the name Duplex.
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Google's demonstration of Duplex, "an AI system for accomplishing real-world tasks over the phone," could be the customer-service killer app for which the government has been waiting.
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Before his marriage, the actor was known for appearing in projects like American Psycho, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Duplex, John Adams, Megamind, Zoolander, Your Highness and Parks and Recreation.
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That place, a newly renovated ground-floor duplex in South Harlem, for $4,000 a month, had three bedrooms and three bathrooms plus a big backyard and a normal staircase.
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Davis told CNN that she told officials she had moved out of the duplex about a week ago and wasn't in the home at the time of the search.
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Soon after, under advisement from his older cousin, he purchased a microphone, laptop, and speakers, and began recording raps in his bedroom in his grandmother's side of the duplex.
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FT. $450,000 approximate annual rent 255 47th Street (between Second and Third Avenues) Brooklyn This 18,000-square-foot single-tenant duplex warehouse in Sunset Park was built in 1924.
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Of 240 apartments for rent, the most expensive was $237,242 a month for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex on Fort Washington Avenue with an in-unit washer-dryer.
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Front Burner A pop-up house, or in New York terms, a six-room duplex decorated with eggs as its theme, will be open to visitors starting April 7.
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Mr. Bon Jovi sold a duplex at 4.33 Charles Street, No. 4BS, for $15 million, according to city records, which was below its most recent $15.95 million asking price.
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In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a 1,327-square foot, two-bedroom, two-bath, duplex penthouse with a washer and dryer, three balconies, a private roof deck and a deeded parking space.
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When Google first unveiled Duplex last year, it demonstrated making phone calls to a hair salon and a restaurant — handled with artificial intelligence, without a mention of human intervention.
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For $650,000, they bought a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom duplex penthouse with a terrace and a fireplace, where they raised two daughters, now 20 and 93.
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In July, Ms. Parker, best known for her starring role in the TV series "Weeds," sold a five-bedroom, four-bath duplex at 9 College Place for $6.2 million.
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They make $3,000 per month in rent from the second half of the duplex and another $1,500 per month from the garage, which they converted into a studio apartment.
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They would have considered buying and updating a duplex in an old house, Mr. Ayyappan, 42, said, but such properties do not show up often and competition is fierce.
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Built as a single-family home for Jean Baptiste Lamothe, a goldsmith and jeweler who died in 1874, the concrete-and-brick house was eventually turned into a duplex.
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Up Next Age 32 Hometown Mexico City Now Lives A duplex apartment in Brooklyn Heights perched above the promenade, which she shares with her boyfriend, the photographer Balarama Heller.
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The duplex, a successor to the one Ms. Butler bought soon after landing her first Broadway show, "Blood Brothers," in 1993, has the outdoor space that is a must.
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So at the end of 2012, the couple bought a second 3,600-square-foot duplex in the same complex, for $20153 million, primarily for the use of the children.
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The couple's two-bedroom duplex townhouse on Mariners Cove, which they rent for about $4,000 a month, has a backyard terrace overlooking the river with views of Upper Manhattan.
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This apartment is one of seven three-bedroom units and one duplex penthouse in this new boutique development that was put on the market at the end of October.
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Last year, Google showed off its AI-powered Duplex assistant that showed how a person could make dinner reservations over the phone without knowing the receptionist wasn't a person.
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In the East Village, a one-bedroom, two-bath, duplex apartment, with a washer/dryer in the rear of a 19th-century townhouse, with access to a shared garden.
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The fact that it's rolling out to people who can only ask businesses what their hours of operation are is a sign that Duplex is in its earliest iteration.
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