Google's Incredibly Lifelike AI Can Now Call Businesses For You - Here's How To Use It
techradar, Friday, January 31st, 2025
You might remember Duplex, Google's artificial intelligence (AI) tool that would call businesses and make reservations on your behalf using a highly realistic AI voice. Well, now the search giant is back with another very similar offering that gives a whole new meaning to the term 'robocalling".
This time, Google's service is called Ask for Me. The idea is it can do the heavy lifting for you by directly calling businesses to get information on pricing, availability, and more based on what you want to find out.
Ask for Me is part of Google's experimental Labs division. Google gives the example of searching for terms like 'oil change' or 'nail salons nearby,' and it seems like it's limited to auto shops and nail salons for now. After you search, you can tell Ask for Me what you want to know about the company, then the AI will call the business and find out the information you're after. When the call is finished, it'll send you a summary of prices and availability.