# Google AI Blog: Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything

<https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/towards-conversational-agent-that-can.html?m=1>

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## What Jamie wrote

Undoubtedly cool tech, but more and more I start to wonder, why do we need this?

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT133: Weekly Thing #133 / Clayton Christensen, iPad at 10, Ukraine, Nintendo Switch, Apple Map Expansion](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/133/), FYI

## Same host

- [Google AI Blog: Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/02405d7c5804/) (ai.googleblog.com, May 10, 2018)
- [Google AI Blog: Introducing Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c9d21101cb21/) (ai.googleblog.com, May 19, 2019)
- [Google AI Blog: Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6d3f796939d4/) (ai.googleblog.com, October 23, 2019)

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