Google and Siri assistant are very different – iculture

Google announced a new assistant at Google I / O 2016. Google said it no voice assistant like Siri. They called it not a chatbot. What is it? We were looking forward to what the company actually do is planning with Google Assistant

Google Assistant:. The future of search

Google assistant is soon all over: the Google home speaker and the messaging app Allo. And that’s just the beginning, because we will also be seen in a variety of other services Google Assistant. The announcement did quite a bit of confusion. It is the successor to Google Now? Does it compare to Siri? Google’s assistant has a certain personality and does he / she kidding? Google Assistant is a product name?

The answer to all these questions is:. No

Google Assistant you write a lowercase a, because it is not a product name. Also, it is not an app and not a chatbot. The assistant does not joke and did not receive a catchy name, like Siri, Alexa or Cortana. Google does not even give the impression that the assistant has human traits.

Google inside ‘

What is it? Simply put, it is the future of Google search. Google CEO Sundar Pichai told during the keynote of Google I / O: The Google Assistant, the company wants to stop the Google cleverness everywhere. In a blog posting they call it: the next evolution of Google. Google wants to be in the future present in many ways in your life: the apps and devices you use and the services that you get to make. You could consider it as “Google inside: the assistant who knows all about you and you can come to the rescue at any time

The assistant is an ambient experience that. will work seamlessly across devices and contexts.

Google calls it not even a service, but an “ambient experience”. Google search will be in the future, a conversation aimed to get things done. Google does this by analyzing what you do: the content of the pictures you take, the messages that you share with others. Google assistant looks at the context and interpret what you do. This is based on investing for years in machine learning and the processing of billions of searches.

Knowledge Graph

Google knows what people search for and how the world works: When a car needs a driver, who must have a license and insurance. All this knowledge about the real world, Google has a huge Knowledge Graph (this time with capitals) stopped, so she hundreds of millions of terms to know how they are interrelated. Google Assistant makes it clever use of it, by taking it out on things you say. Are you talking with a friend about ‘hungry’ and ‘pizza’, the assistant claims that you might be looking for an Italian restaurant.

It is naturally more difficult when you say ‘not hungry’ and ‘no pizza, as well as the assistant can probably handle it. On the picture above you can see that the assistant knows you Donatello’s restaurant mean when you say: “first one looks pretty good.” That is, after the first restaurant in the row voorschotelde assistant.

Differences between Siri and Google Assistant

Siri and compare the Google Assistant difficult with each other because the insertion is very different. Below we highlight the main differences at a glance:.

• Siri has a name, Google assistant not
• Siri has a personality and makes witty jokes, Google assistant not .
• Siri does a voice command, the Google assistant is not tied to a device.
• Siri only knows your name and you can specify family relationships, the Google assistant knows a lot more of you, without you around having to ask. Of course, that again raises privacy issues. Apple puts on privacy and would therefore that Siri about you as little as possible to remember.

However, there are some similarities:

• Siri and Google assisent can both interesting facts for you look, for example: “What is the largest planet in the solar system?”
• Siri and Google assistant to both the lights and turn on the music and control activities. When Siri does that through HomeKit
• Both assistants are context-dependent:. The suggestions are based on your location and time of day

Should Apple be worried.?

When viewing the presentation of Google I / O, we noticed that the more fun and easier than going most of Apple keynotes we are accustomed lately. A wide variety of staff members came on stage and we got to see a whirlwind of announcements, all focused on a future where artificial intelligence comes back in many ways. There were also beautiful products: a well-designed speaker with built-in assistant and a new VR glasses. It makes everything much more tangible than we are accustomed to Apple. After the era to see Steve Jobs we mainly get lists of specs and tell leaders with gray hair over abstract issues such HomeKit and ResearchKit. It all seems so boring compared to the announcements did Google. Yet there is a problem: all those wonderful new products are not to be used at all. The new apps come in handy during the summer, the Google home speaker later this year. For Android N is true that some users might have to wait a year before their device is updated

at Apple, the announcements may be some boring and the future of new products sounds less ambitious, but it will at least be fast to market. At Google, you never know. For example, the Google Nexus Q (see photo) was a sensation when it was announced at Google I / O 2012, but in the end it turned out the biggest tech flop of that year. You might see the Nexus Q as a predecessor to Google Home. This is not to say that Home will also flop, but that Google sometimes has trouble eventually turn pretty Announcements and sales success. Apple has since the ‘boring’ products less difficulty

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