Google's Pixel XL Has One iPhone Killing Feature
As impressive as the Pixel XL’s Google Assistant is, it’s not the artificial intelligence dream – like in the film Her - customers receiving their pre-orders today might expect it to be. But it will be. As I laid out in my feature run-down yesterday,
I’ve spent a while getting to know Assistant. Peppering it with
questions that range from the simple to the obscure. It typically
handles itself with diligence, giving me restaurant suggestions,
football results, sending messages and providing succinct answers to
speculative Google searches easily.
As impressive as the Pixel XL’s Google Assistant is, it’s not the artificial intelligence dream – like in the film Her - customers receiving their pre-orders today might expect it to be. But it will be.
As I laid out in my feature run-down yesterday,
I’ve spent a while getting to know Assistant. Peppering it with
questions that range from the simple to the obscure. It typically
handles itself with diligence, giving me restaurant suggestions,
football results, sending messages and providing succinct answers to
speculative Google searches easily.
The issue is that it’s easy to confuse
the conversational tone that Assistant communicates in for actual
intelligence. The AI is functionally limited to providing the top answer
of a Google search and relaying that back to you in a concise,
digestible format. When it can’t do that, Assistant will simply present a
page of search results. There also some deeper functionality like
booking tables at restaurants and some app management (setting alarms
for example).
Assistant, in its current state,
represents the absolute pinnacle of search. But it’s the next stage of
Google’s AI that truly excites me: control.
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