Another Google service will soon join the company’s . This week, the search giant Duplex announced quietly that it was closing down Duplex online. A It was discovered by , the company notes the service won’t work after the end of 2022. “As we continue to improve the Duplex experience, we’re responding to the feedback we’ve heard from users and developers about how to make it even better,” a Google spokesperson told the outlet. “By the end of this year, we’ll turn down Duplex on the Web and fully focus on making AI advancements to the Duplex voice technology that helps people most every day.”
Google announced Duplex on the Web for the first time in 2005. As an expansion of its . In the beginning, this feature was intended to assist Android users in purchasing movie tickets. Assistant was able to navigate websites by itself thanks to Duplex on the Internet. Assistant would need to have your credit card information in Chrome so that it could purchase film tickets for you. Google added the feature to protect users from online data breaches. You could use it at one time to search for flights or track down discounts.
Duplex is being shut down by Google because of its web presence. TechCrunch This suggests that it could have to do with the expense of training an AI to read websites. The feature’s support page notes Google used a special user agent to crawl websites as much multiple times per day. Duplex’s Web performance could be severely affected if website administrators block the crawler from indexing their contents.
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