Poll results: Which future Google Assistant feature is best?
Google Assistant is getting some really interesting and useful upgrades, which were announced at Google I/O not so long ago. Following on from the event, we wanted to discover which feature you would be most excited to use.
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Even though Google presented futuristic and wild technologies for Google Assistant (yes, i'm talking about its ability to make calls on your behalf), the feature you voted as the best was simply not having to repeat 'OK Google' anymore, something that many found annoying. Google will now give users more freedom and options when it comes to activating Assistant on their smart home devices.
Next, it was the impressive one: its ability to make a phone call for you. If you followed the Google I/O livestream, you'll remember the call the Assistant made to the hairdresser, which sounded scarily natural. There are some doubts and concerns about the direction of artificial intelligence however; people are concerned about the impact this kind of technology could have on people's lives. Some of you are completely against using Assistant all together.
Either way, it's clear that Google Assistant will appear in more and more homes via smart home devices, not to mention the smartphones in your pockets, and it will be interesting to see how these features develop.
What do you think of Assistant's latest upgrades? What features would you like to see in the future? Let us know your thoughts.
Not saying "Ok Google" is great. But using other voices will be awesome :D
For me I do like using the assistant because frankly I'm a slow typer. But they're still not perfect cause sometimes I don't get the results I'm expecting. But I still use assistant as a matter of convenience since its accuracy IMO is over 90% which is acceptable to me at this time.
Having to not tow the party line, and say “Ok Google” is the best feature, now I can do more with auto voice.
The break point is the "real me" aka the guy with the credit card. Google has only a nonsense Gmail address, of all the FAANG services, only Amazon deals with the cardholder "real me". So while Amazon, the bank, or the ISP / telco are rummaging through my filing cabinet, Google and the rest are rummaging through Nobody@Gmail's garbage bin. Using a digital assistant usefully, by definition requires "real me" identification - not willing to extend it to Google, and precisely because Amazon knows "real me", I'm very leery of its Alexa and associated service ecosystem.
The security risk of having these assistance AIs and the total loss of privacy far out way any benefits they may offer. Just read these articles and see if you still want to use them.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/researchers-show-siri-alexa-exploited-175543411.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/undetectable-commands-apple-apos-siri-133007729.html
As far as I'm concerned, Bixby & SIRI can't hold Google Assistant's hankercheif as far as usefulness is concerned. It's kind of a no contest!