let's talk about the google assistant

[Bankz111]

Google assistant. I mean let me get something straight here. I mean, it has to be what I'm thinking it is. Except if we're saying that this is a glorified google now.

For instance, I watched a video where someone asked the assistant what his favourite color was and the assistant told said in quote "you told me it was blue". Now if this is true, it means that I can just enter the GA and type/tell it anything I know I'd forget and when I ask it, it'll tell me what I told it right? Or am I jus imagining things? Ok, for instance, if I told the google assistant any particular thing like the profile of a friend or an organization, and I go back and say "what's the name of my wife" or "how many pairs of shoes do I have" or "what's the color of my watch" or "where do I work" it'll tell me because I've already told it prior to my questions. Here it can also be like a true assistant who tells you things you told it when you've forgotten about the information or when you're just too lazy to dig them up. Or am I just making this up?

Now if this is really what it is then.. The Google assistant alone will be enough reason to upgrade from whatever phone you had before imo. Coupled with the fact that we've not even started scratching the surface of what it can do. The fact that they made it also in the form of chatting along with voice commands is genius imo. Its damn creepy, I know but then again, Maybe google have finally started stretching their powers then.

 

[akin_t]

I mean, it's all just machine learning; not to say it's not impressive, but Google (and every other major tech company) has had this deep learning thing figured out for a while now.

With the appropriate inputs, any necessary outputs can be obtained, and the algorithm just learns as it goes. Issue is how to tailor the network to cater to only one user while being able to learn from the input/output pairs provided by other users.

It's a powerful tool, but Cortana has already done most of this already. Machine learning isn't new to anyone in the computer science field.

But yeah, I'm excited to see what it can do.

 

[arthurhkt]

Well, the difference in between Google Now and Google Assistant is that, Google Now were more like a web search engine with built in assistant feature, while Google Assistant are closer to it's rival such as Cortana, Siri and BlackBerry Assistant. Google Assistant had better understanding of your queries and answer you with less robotic tones.

But of course Google Assistant itself won't be the main attraction to buy the Pixel phone, mainly in few months period probably it will support all the Android phones. If Google really plan to keep the Google Assistant for Pixel series only, that will be totally difference story.

 

[Kayza]

No, none of the companies have deep machine learning "figured out". They are just getting there. Cortana is a good example, but it's got some huge holes. So Does Google now, and I'm betting so does the Assistant. The question is how big are the holes and are they in places that really pull down the usefulness of the tool or the experience. Those are two different issues. It's really possible that even if the Assistant is genuinely useful people won't use it, or use it much, if the experience is not good.

 

[akin_t]

No, none of the companies have deep machine learning "figured out". They are just getting there. Cortana is a good example, but it's got some huge holes. So Does Google now, and I'm betting so does the Assistant. The question is how big are the holes and are they in places that really pull down the usefulness of the tool or the experience. Those are two different issues. It's really possible that even if the Assistant is genuinely useful people won't use it, or use it much, if the experience is not good.

Well sure they have machine learning figured out; it's the application of machine learning to artificial intelligence that is still in it's infancy. Machine learning is, today, already being applied to face recognition and even voice recognition.

Just because we haven't figured out how to use it to make good general (or human-like) artificial intelligence doesn't mean we don't understand the concept.

I think the challenge to human-like artificial intelligence is simply that humans have a lot more ways of recording information than any machine could hope for; in other words, we simply have more inputs to work with.

We can hear someone tearing up and combined with their facial expression deduce if they're happy or sad; a machine can also learn how to do this as it has access to visual and audio input like us.

However, a machine will never understand why someone is making a stink-face, as a machine doesn't understand the concept of smell (not yet anyway). We as humans will already recognize that face and deduce that the person is smelling something unpleasant because we've experienced that combination of input before.

So yeah, we have a long long way before machines will ever be able to emulate general human intelligence; I hope I'm not around when we manage to perfect it lol.

 

[Richard Servello]

Download allo and give it a shot.

 

[Bankz111]

From what I understand the google assistant is not like the other run of the mill ones like siri, cortana. I see the GA as a secretary who you give/tell details that in turn provide them when you actually need them to at the right time. More so, its now also in the form of chatting so I gues its saying goodbye to google search 30% of the time.

For instance, I doubt that siri can tell me the name of my mum even if I tell it her name , my favorite color or someone else's favorite color even if I told them, nor can they tell you in sentence something you've told them before. Now, this is not the usual general "what time is it" "what's the weather like" "how old is X" questions we're all used to but rather this is like an assistant that knows all about you and everything you tell it and brings them up when you need them. These questions doesn't need to be about popular people/events as other assistants are used to, BUT THIS IS ABOUT YOU and ANYTHING YOU TELL IT, along with its other run of the mill functions

Just think of the possibilities we can achieve with this.

 

[Ry]

Google assistant. I mean let me get something straight here. I mean, it has to be what I'm thinking it is. Except if we're saying that this is a glorified google now.

For instance, I watched a video where someone asked the assistant what his favourite color was and the assistant told said in quote "you told me it was blue". Now if this is true, it means that I can just enter the GA and type/tell it anything I know I'd forget and when I ask it, it'll tell me what I told it right? Or am I jus imagining things? Ok, for instance, if I told the google assistant any particular thing like the profile of a friend or an organization, and I go back and say "what's the name of my wife" or "how many pairs of shoes do I have" or "what's the color of my watch" or "where do I work" it'll tell me because I've already told it prior to my questions. Here it can also be like a true assistant who tells you things you told it when you've forgotten about the information or when you're just too lazy to dig them up. Or am I just making this up?

Now if this is really what it is then.. The Google assistant alone will be enough reason to upgrade from whatever phone you had before imo. Coupled with the fact that we've not even started scratching the surface of what it can do. The fact that they made it also in the form of chatting along with voice commands is genius imo. Its damn creepy, I know but then again, Maybe google have finally started stretching their powers then.

The argument will be, it's all machine learning. Why does Google Assistant have to be exclusive to Pixel?

 

[Wiley_11]

Looks pretty cool.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PDawvB_PcM&feature=youtu.be

 

[anon(98335)]

I'm wondering if Google Assistant will able to speak other languages.

 

[Kayza]

It won't be, in the long term. We're seeing the beginning of this with Allo, which has a version of the GA built in.

 

[jimbo1mcm]

I ordered a Pixel because I just wanted something different, but this Google Assistant might be the star of the show!!

 

[bmoguy]

I ordered a Pixel because I just wanted something different, but this Google Assistant might be the star of the show!!

That's my hope. I'm hoping for tight integration with apps, like texting, to-dos, appointments, maps, etc.

 

[Almeuit]

I can't wait to try it out. After a month or two I bet it'll be pretty helpful.

 

[Ebuddy191]

Tried it with allo for a while.. It's quite good than Siri or Cortana.. Just installed Google Assistant on my device running CM13

Give the below guide a try.. It worked without any issue

http://www.droidape.com/get-google-assistant-marshmallow-devices/#respond