Why Google Assistant is the Future of Ai ?
In October 2017, Google CEO came out with a pretty strong Ai focused statement and said that “Google is now an Ai first company”.
This announcement made clear that world’s leader in internet search
engines was truly embracing the Ai revolution and that it will make
establish itself as a first class leader in this technology. The
acquisition of the most advanced artificial intelligence platform,
API.AI, now known as Dialogflow was the first stepping stone to get from
a mobile first company to an Ai first company.
Social Media Versus Digital Devices Usage
Lately, I asked the following serie of questions to every friends and family members I have:
Carl: “How much time you spend on Facebook each day ❓”
Them: “IDK 5 to 30 minutes per day, why ❓” 🤔
Carl: “You’ll see…Now how much time do you spend doing the following things:
- Interacting with a mobile device 📱
- Watching tv 📺
- Streaming music or videos on an app 🎵
- Driving your car 🚗
- Browsing on internet 💻
- Searching an answer to a question you have by googling it
Them: “Pretty much half of my day…why❓” 🤨
The
time you spend using your car, browsing on the internet, watching
Netflix, driving your car, interacting with your phone is much greater
than the time you spend on all of your social media platforms. This mean
that the opportunity Google Assistant has to capture your attention is
more likely to retarget you then any other Ai platform.
In
the future you will not only ask voice recognition questions to the
Google Assistant with your mobile phone or with Google Home devices, you
will also do the same with your car’s Internet of Things (IoT) device
and with any other IoT gears such as mirrors, smart tvs, your fridge and
so on.
Some Social Media are Getting Old 👴🏻
The
first social media I used was Mirc, I made a lot of great friends on
this social media, we would do Get Together at punk bands shows in my
Quebec home state. Then came MSN Messenger, and then came the Google
search engine which my father introduced to me first and then came
Facebook. When I made my Facebook profile I remember that I was the only
one I knew that had a Facebook profile, more than 10 years ago.
Facebook
got to what we called the maturity stage in technology. It’s nothing
against it, but everything in life, including corporations, get old one
day. Some companies grow older quicker, some companies seems to have
take a sip of the golden grail from Indiana Jones third movie with
eternal life.
In
my personal opinion, Google seem much younger now than its main rival
and to be honest the corporation owned by Alphabet has been much more
transparent in its course of action toward artificial intelligence, to
say the least, than its main competitor.
Also some of the youngest players in the Ai world are getting bright future in the Ai ecosystem,, according to a report by Global Web Index Telegram,
BBM and WeChat are respectively the front runners social media with
89%, 81% and 81% active users interested in money transfer features on
mobile . Money transfer is crucial for any Ai platform in order to make a
interesting return on investment (ROI) for its investors.
YouTube Star Amongst the Most Wanted Career for Primary School Students
When
I was 12 years old my dream was to become the next Kurt Kobain, I
learned to play bass guitar and my punk band was named No Way Out.
Nowadays kids want to be the next PewDiePie and become a YouTube star.
A
couple weeks ago when I was at my parents’ house a news report
mentioned that becoming a YouTube star was now one of the top 10 most
wanted job for children in primary school. Why does that have anything
to do with artificial intelligence?
Because
technology changes have always been driven by the kids, notably because
they have the biggest social channels and because they also want to
affirm themselves by being different from the older generations.
Which
mean that if kids want to become YouTube stars they are more than
likely going to interact with Google Ai than any other digital giants
wanting to get a piece of the robots age revolution.
Google Assistant Will Make Ai Friendly
I
don’t know for you, but I am getting bored of texting. It is slow,
inefficient and it lacks emotional warmth of a real conversation. Google
Assistant not only allow you to create voice recognition Ai, it allows
to be personalized the voice by selecting a male or a female voice,
slowing down the pace of the Ai voice and this is only the beginning of
it.
In a couple years from now kids will interact with Ai robots like they now do with their cat and their dog:
They will be active members of their family.
This
prediction of the future might seem crazy to most of you right now, but
my prediction about cryptocurrencies that would become the next mean of
economical trade also seemed crazy 4 years ago to all my peers. At that
time, Bitcoins were being traded at values of in between $200 to $800
dollars.
Will I be right again? Only time will tell.