GOOGLE DUPLEX: - Google's digital assistant can decision actual folks at businesses to form building reservations and hair appointments and check vacation hours. In 2 demonstrations, a realistic-sounding machine-controlled voice used pauses and "ums" and "mmm-hmms" to sound additional human throughout interactions with folks. Google says the technology is rolling out as "an experiment" in returning weeks. Google says it's still working out a way to be direct and let businesses grasp that they're reprimand a pc.