in his open letter suggested Google CEO Sundar Pichai earlier this month that the core of Google in the future could ever be an artificial intelligence. That the future two weeks later was already at the door, still came as somewhat of a surprise. At Google I / O Pichai talked about Google Assistant. Then the company came out with Google and Google Home Allo: a new application and a new app built up around the same assistant. Pichai did not say it in so many words, but the assistant is nothing less than Google’s comprehensive artificial intelligence in its infancy.
Many pieces of one puzzle
Google has long been much more than a search engine. The company has Android, Gmail, Chrome, photos and Google Now. All consumer applications of the technology giant initially seemed somewhat exist separately. Android provides the mobile ecosystem, Gmail offers a free email service, Chrome is a browser, Google Images is a repository for photos and Google Now is a somewhat personalized search engine.
In hindsight Google services together constitute the pillars on which Google assistant is built. Thanks to the popularity of Android millions of people use the search engine on their aircraft, often using speech. The data from all those users enables Google to develop its voice algorithms while integrating Gmail messages and Google Now gives more context to work with. Google Photos again a huge database of material that Google can refine the image and face of his neural network.
Neural Networks and AI
Neural networks, machine learning and to follow artificial intelligence, driving Google’s services. Google Assistant is pretty much the combination of everything the company has learned so far. Pichai claimed that nobody else in the world as well in computer speech. He therefore does not refer to the natural speech of Now, but language comprehension that behind this.
Conversations
“Who played James Bond in Quantum of Solace?” Is in itself a simple question of fact that an assistant with the vast knowledge of Google can get to work. An answer comes quickly these days, often with useful links, a short biography and images for you to click on a website. “What is he doing with it?” Is essentially not difficult, but the search engine must now understand context: ‘he’ refers to the result of the most recent search, “in which” the fact that he had a role in other movies. Pichai want Google is getting smarter and more sophisticated so conversations can.
create other functions automatically their appearance: in an interview with the assistant you should immediately be able to book movie tickets and a calendar appointment can add. you may talk with Google or ends with the question out to send a message to your friends to let them know that you have the tickets in your pocket. That conversation capacities are the biggest difference between Now today and the Assistant tomorrow.
Ubiquitous
the assistant must be able to move using your phone as well as while you are behind the wheel in the car. in addition, Google must understand that the vehicle context is different than the smartphone context, which to more appropriate answer must lead. If you come home, the band stays with what is essentially a smart private version of Google is not just quit. Home will this year ensure that the conversation with Google will continue going on without you you have to pick up smartphone.
the Google assistant is the ever-evolving combinate of Google’s expertise in the field of language comprehension, search, apps, context understanding and personalization. That Pichai in the near future will integrate IoT home automation products, seems normal.
Self-learning system
The more Google Assistant is a real assistant, the more people use will make. This leads to more interactions which, controlled by neural networks, will lead to a better assistant. Google showed earlier with a simple experiment that a computer algorithm can teach themselves new and useful behaviors. Once a system is smart enough, it will only get smarter.
The result is an artificial intelligence that knows the answer to your questions, you can control thermostat, you keep diary in the eye, your friends warns if you’re too late, warns you so that you simply will not be late and more. The assistant actually existed as Google Now on your smartphone but it’s Pichai’s plan to disconnect him (her?) From a single device that makes it clear what he / she really is: Google itself, everywhere tailored to the individual user .
Elon Musks nightmare
Does that sound creepy? Maybe. However, Google has enough information that you already releases to deploy the assistant. The processing of that information will improve, nothing more. Who relies on Google’s ecosystem will in particular find a practical assistant butler. That Elon Musk fears that Pichai with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin ever accidentally create a true AI seems at least not as unfounded.
When you can get started now with your personal butler Jarvis? Not. At least not in the foreseeable future, if you are fond of the Dutch language. Today the Dutch version of Google Now is still a sad shadow of the English equivalent. Dutch is very low on the priority list so you can start from a few years delay for anything that has to do with speech.
English upper language
Are you willing assistant in English to speak, you can be at the end of the year basically get to work. Essential for the system is the decoupling of your smartphone using include Google Home and hardware will probably not immediately available to us. The auto aspect of the assistant you will have to buy a new car anyway: Android Cars coming soon to your smartphone
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