Busting the Myths About A.I. Invading Our Lives
And though the Google Assistant — like other digital assistants from the likes of Amazon
and Apple — does a decent job of responding to some questions and commands, it is a long way from not just recognizing but actually understanding conversational speech.
What are the potential pitfalls of so much A. I.
services, like the one that handles the voice for the Google Assistant, learn tasks by analyzing enormous amounts of data.
Researchers at a Google A. I.
lab in London built a system that learns to speak by analyzing recordings of human voices and identifying the patterns that make them human.
Look at the Amazon Echo, the autonomous cars now being tested in places like the Phoenix
area, the enormous improvements of widely used services like Google Translate.
A good thing to try is the digital assistant on the latest Google Pixel phone
because it shows both the power of artificial intelligence and the limitations.
The other worry is that the rise of certain technologies — including autonomous cars and other robotics — will significantly shift the job market.
