Google's 2016 AI Phone Call Demo Finally Delivered by Muse a Decade Later
shuchaobi · x · 2026-09-20
A user says having Muse make phone calls on their behalf is "another feel-the-AGI moment." The poster recalls that Google demoed an AI making phone calls back at I/O 2016, which turned out to be heavily over-promised — and a decade later the capability has arrived in near-perfect form.
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