About whether Google Duplex is a notable advance or just overhyped tech news.
Has this happened?
Yes 78 (74%)Not sure 11 (10%)No 16 (15%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether Google Duplex is a notable advance or just overhyped tech news.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
If his point is that "_every_ new product or feature, no matter how minor or how incremental, is treated as the second coming" then he's picked a bad example in Google Duplex in that it does seem noteable - the HN coverage was the second highest voted and most commented story this month (1875 points, 750 comments). It's not that booking hairdresser is a big deal - it's not. It's that it seems kind of half way between Siri and passing the Turing test which is a big deal.