Ask To comes chat smart Google – The Republic

THE FIRST chat intelligent. The first means between the virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana and Alexa, and the app to communicate ranging from WhatsApp to Messenger of Facebook. From the 21st of September, for iPhone and Android, is the app available At the Google. In English at the beginning, then in 78 other languages, including Italian. Allows you to exchange messages, pictures, video, but also and above all to converse with an artificial intelligence of the new generation. A sample of the new strategy Mountain View, which now relies entirely, or almost on the learning of the machines. Starting from a genre, that of the chat, which is the most widespread, and where Google has an insignificant weight.

Whatsapp, which Facebook acquired in 2014 for $ 19 billion, has a billion active users. As many has Messenger, always by Mark Zuckerberg. WeChat has a population of about 505 million of active users, especially in China, the japanese Line has 208, Snapchat follows with 200 million, while the Telegram is more than 100. According to the data of ComScore, 75 percent of the time spent on the app by the people is the prerogative of only three subjects, and two are of Facebook. Google arrives late, after the launch of the Duo that serves for video calls, but it comes with the first taste of the artificial intelligence of the new generation of Mountain View. The backbone of the company now headed by Sundar Pichai. At allows you to exchange text messages, stickers (there are three different series) appeared for the first time on-Line in 2011, images, video, and voice messages. Then just start with @google to bring artificial intelligence and share with others, even groups of people, the best restaurants in the area, the options of buying a plane ticket, a piece of news, the times of a museum. The virtual assistant Google collects the information held by search engine, is an evolution, and you can also see directly in a private channel where we can conversarci. You can parargli, but recording the application in the cloud is analyzed to provide the answer. Not then replaces Google Now, which is the equivalent of Siri, Cortana, and Alexa.

step, true, but that also applies to the other assistants, is to understand not only the individual questions but a series of requests from their affiliates. Look for a local in the vicinity, for example, you add the type of cuisine, that it has good reviews, that accept reservations. With a margin of improvement on the answers, clearly, and this applies to the assistant to Google how to do the same. If you deviate from the most common questions, of the traffic conditions to those of the weather, these artificial intelligences will show all their limits.

But the road is traced. Now it remains to be seen how and if At will be integrated with the Duo, the other apps of Google, and what role he will play in the Home, the speaker smart similar to the Echo, Amazon’s, or in new versions of the Android Tv. In the intentions, have repeated several times in Mountain View, the assistant should be cross-cutting, therefore, have in my memory that we have asked in the past, even though we’re using a different device. But Google does not always shining for consistency, just think of the evolution of Google Now, and Now on Tap that were intermediate steps in the development of the mobile and that now, however, live together doing much the same things. So we will see how Pichai and his will be able to make the equivalent of what otherwise threatens to be a mosaic of advanced services and very promising, but definitely less recognizable than those of the competition.

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Sundar Pichai