There was a lot of waiting for the Google I / O 2016 and let's say right away that the wait has paid off. The first big news presented is Google Now in an enhanced version: Google's famous assistant has evolved, gotten even more mature, and now he also knows how to hold discussions. Ah, I almost forgot! It has also changed its name and is now called Google Assistant! The video above will immediately clarify what we are talking about!
Let's think about what the Google search experience is today: a panel with detailed information on [Virus Zika] or an alert that informs you that your flight is delayed. It is quite impressive to see how things have changed since those first 10 blue links. Many of these breakthroughs have been possible thanks to machine learning and artificial intelligence (specifically areas such as natural language understanding, speech recognition and translation) and have helped us create an increasingly useful and supportive experience. to users. These are the ingredients that have made Google's speech recognition the most accurate in the world and that allow you to take a picture of a text in Chinese and see it immediately translated into English.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, recalled how more and more people interact with Google in a natural way and not just to search for information and expect Google to help them better organize their daily activities. Here because the Google assistant was born, which we will better know how Google Assistant!
The Google Assistant really converses with you: it's a two-way dialogue between you and Google, understands the world around you and helps you do what you need. Make it easy to buy movie tickets on the go, find the perfect restaurant for a quick snack with your family before the show starts, and help you navigate to the movie theater.
The assistant works seamlessly on any device and in any Android context (smartphone, tablet, Android Auto, Android Wear). In the example shown during the conference, Google posed some questions to the assistant of the likes "What do you recommend to do tonight?" or "what work is it about?" while in front of a famous document or work. In short, a much more "human" assistant and able to better interpret our questions: isn't it fantastic?
