Google shows up late in crowded AI-based digital-assistant field
San Francisco: Google unleashed its digital assistant for the first time, arriving late to the intensifying race among the largest technology companies to create a more personal and lucrative way for computers to interact with humans. The assistant will also appear inside Google’s Home internet-connected speaker—expected next month—in new Android smartphones and in devices such as cars and watches made by other companies, Google executive Nick Fox said. “It’s a layer across Google -- the glue that links our existing services and technology together.” Google is adjusting to a new world in which people interact more often with smartphones and other devices and appliances linked to the internet than with personal computers, and are increasingly speaking to these smaller gadgets instead of typing in commands. “Google may like its dominant position on current platforms, but it has to adapt.” Google’s edge Even though Google’s assistant comes years after some of its rivals’ entrants to this field, Fox said the internet giant has an advantage because useful digital assistants are trained with AI techniques, such as deep learning, that the company has been researching or using for years. This is similar to Google’s Chrome web browser, which lets users open a new browsing window in “incognito” mode to avoid the company tracking that activity.
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