Yeah, that was probably the last year that I was interested in Google’s products. I couldn’t believe how awesome that demo was, it really felt like the future. But then the features that we actually got were huge letdowns. And I just kinda…stopped caring, and started asking questions about privacy concerns, and ultimately moved off of Google entirely.
I think that product was too expensive to offer to the masses. It needed huge honking neural nets that cost too much to run.
In the meantime there are open TTS engines with similar quality and language models that can hold better conversation. They don't have a monopoly on that chat-bot tech anymore.
