artificial intelligence and machine learning were two of the most used words during the inaugural conference Google I / O, the annual developer event in which the company shows its new developments, which began Wednesday.
No major surprises, who more pronounced these terms was Sundar Pichai , CEO of the company and one of the people most talks about how these technologies can redefine the way users interact with the computer and, in general, with digital services. (See “Who is the new president of Google?”)
For all futuristic and complex sounds something like machine learning or artificial intelligence, these two techniques take a long time offering support to Google searches, more specifically how the search fails to understand the questions people . And this naturally goes through how a machine understands the language. (Read “artificial intelligence can redefine the future of things like work and health”)
Without going into detail, This task involves understanding the context of words, identify accents and nuances in expressions ; all elements present in the way a child learns to talk, for example
Much of services and developments that Google introduced Wednesday have to do precisely with that. how a machine understands and interacts with a user communicates talking , giving no default or producing code but in the same way as you would with someone else commands.
Assistant , the new incarnation of the company digital assistant and competence of things like Siri , is perhaps the best way to understand this. “We are at the moment in which artificial intelligence can make a great leap forward and redefine the technology over the next 10 years,” Pichai said shortly before making a demonstration of what this means .
a user can ask Google who directed the film “born again”. The search engine delivers the answer and the person responds with a phrase: “I want to know more about him.” “ Manage against user questions is very difficult for a computer , especially when done informally, as one would do in a conversation. What we want is that Assistant is able to interact with people talking, you have the ability to converse with users. And this is not easy, “Pichai said.
This new product will be embedded in the entire experience user support of Google, which means that its scope is not limited only to cell phones, but also may be included, for example, Android Auto , the adaptation of this operating system for cars.
And also be present at Google Home a new device introduced by the company Wednesday and that, ultimately, is a more than Pichai said expression. do more natural interaction of a human with the machine
the machine in this case is a small cylinder, installed in various parts of the house, can answer questions finder, organize the calendar of people, send messages, manage connected devices (such as smart thermostats and lights) or reservations for a restaurant. Everything worth clarify, without having to interact with the user’s phone.
Of course, Google Home is not the first device of its kind , then Amazon takes a couple of years selling Echo , a device that essentially does the same as Google, only without the integration of search and its vast capabilities to manage information.
Talk vast capabilities here not be an excess of enthusiasm. As an example, recognition systems image Google have generated more than two billion tags to identify photos that pass through their networks (either in Google Photos or in the search as such) and 24000 millions of these tags belong exclusively to selfis .
what does this mean? we live obsessed with selfis , on the one hand and that when a user receives a message with a picture of a dog, Assistant may suggest an answer saying “cute dog” or even talking about race animal.
This was one of the demonstrations of Allo, a new instant messaging application , the company aims to become more productive conversations of users. This, in the language of the world of technology, is that the person has to do less and do more machine each time. The difficult thing here is to apply this reasoning to a product of human communication.
Allo, again, is connected with the techniques of speech recognition and machine learning to run under Google to achieve, for example , make restaurant suggestions when people speak go for Italian food or even propose an automatic response to a photo of pasta with shrimp saying something like “shrimp are very good.”
This messaging application works in partnership with Duo , a new product from the company for video calls, among other useful tricks, you can access a preview of who’s calling: the receiver of the call can see what he’s doing who before agreeing to answer calls. These two applications are available for Android and iOS. The presentation was not clear what will happen to Hangouts.
The world of Android
Google I / O, which already it is in its tenth year, it would not be what it is if it did not include a good portion of Android related announcements. And this time was no exception, as the company showed some of the developments for the most popular mobile operating system in the world.
By the way, the company says that this year alone, were released 600 phones running Android ; Google Play , the application store of this ecosystem, has registered more than 65,000 million installed applications.
Android is, in turn, a synonym for applications and the door stronger entry of Google into the mobile Internet experience, an issue that is increasingly gaining ground. 50% of the questions that currently make the seeker comes from a mobile device
One of the things most interesting future in the world of Android is a function that, although it will not be active soon, allow a user to access an application without downloading it, something like streaming applications .
this tool operates in the same way they do the links and the web: a person clicks on a hyperlink takes you to a page this online. Trying to achieve the same, only that the final destination is an application.
The idea is that applications are built on a kind of modules so that when a user requests information, you can access the part of the application you need and not the entire product, which can save the person an unnecessary discharge, but at the same time, could also stimulate the consumption of a product that might not have known first.
the conference Wednesday, mostly, was populated by developers, which explains the great applause that this tool received from the public because, ultimately, promises to change the way users download and access applications and this benefits primarily the same developers.
in addition to this feature, which has no fixed date of introduction, Google announced the inclusion of virtual reality in Android . This means going a step beyond Cardboard and design a whole platform for this technology, which will be called Day Dream .
The idea of the company is to establish a kind of design parameters for mobile devices virtual reality, as well as phone features to be used in them. It is a far-reaching initiative and will not start to bear fruit until after half of this year, according to Clay Bavor , who runs the virtual reality of Google.
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