On Thu, 04 May 2017 23:01:06 -0300, Internetado wrote:

> Google has long been focused on artificial intelligence. Its Google Now
> and voice assistance projects have used AI to better the lives of users.
> The Google Home voice-based hardware unit brings its assistant to life,
> making traditional inputs and displays unnecessary. With just the power
> of your voice, you can interact with the device -- nothing else is
> needed. The search giant has decided to take artificial intelligence to
> the maker community with a new initiative called AIY. This
> initiative (found here) will introduce open source AI projects to the
> public that makers can leverage in a simple way. Today, Google
> announces... [Continue Reading]
>
> http://feeds.betanews.com/~r/bn/~3/AxFs2TePA00/

Two probably dodgy assumptions here:

- that you want an always-on microphone connected to the Googleplex
  in your living space. I don't.

- that a speech recognition system connected to a fixed range of
  applications merits being called an Artificial Intelligence.

As far as I'm concerned anything that is claimed to be an Artificial
Intelligence has to be able to pass the Turing test as a bare minimum
requirement. None of these things, whether from Apple, Amazon or Google
even come close to doing that.


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