Wenn die Grenzen zwischen AI-Modellen, persönlichen (Sprach-)Assistenz-Systemen und Chatbots verfließen, ist die Namensgebung entscheidend. Over the next few months, Google will have to show it can integrate the AI models it groups under the Gemini banner into its products, without cannibalizing existing businesses such as search. It has already put a less advanced version ofweiterlesen

Google tried its best to bury the announcement: it made it the fifth bullet in a series of otherwise mundane updates and published the blog post on the same day Pope Francis was elected to head the Catholic Church. Internally, says Mihai Parparita, who was one of Reader’s last engineers and caretakers, “they were like,weiterlesen

Intransparenz und eine fehlende „Opt-out”-Möglichkeit waren die Probleme. In response to concerns raised by a Guardian story last week over how recordings of Siri queries are used for quality control, Apple is suspending the program world wide. Apple says it will review the process that it uses, called grading, to determine whether Siri is hearingweiterlesen

In early February, Google announced that its home security and alarm system Nest Secure would be getting an update. Users, the company said, could now enable its virtual-assistant technology, Google Assistant. The problem: Nest users didn’t know a microphone existed on their security device to begin with. The existence of a microphone on the Nestweiterlesen

So you can record a phrase like the usual “OK Google” or “Hey Google” and from then on, whenever you say that to Siri, the Assistant app will open and immediately start listening for your question or command. Chris Welch | The Verge „Hey Siri, OK Google“ öffnet per Sprachkommando den Google Assistant (universal; Laden).weiterlesen

Family members in bilingual homes often switch back and forth between languages, and now the Assistant can keep up. With our advancement in speech recognition, you can now speak two languages interchangeably with the Assistant on smart speakers and phones and the Assistant will respond in kind. This is a first-of-its-kind feature only available onweiterlesen

Wenn Apple die ersten HomePods am Ende dieser Woche in Kundenhände legt, wird das eine oder andere Urteil lauten: Toller Sound, schlechte Siri. Und ich glaube, das ist fair. Ich glaube, Siri funktioniert nicht annähernd so gut wie Amazons Alexa oder Googles Assistant. Aber ich weiß, dass die Fähigkeiten von Google Home und Amazon Echoweiterlesen

Google Assistant war das Alleinstellungsmerkmal vom Pixel – „the first phone made by Google inside and out“. Die Exklusivität weckte (m‑)eine Hoffnung das Google erstmals ernsthaft ins Hardware-Geschäft einsteigt. Diese Hoffnung wurde enttäuscht. Alle Nexus-Telefone zuvor waren bereits gute Geräte – keine Frage. Im großen Android-Kosmos, und speziell aus Perspektive von tatsächlich verkauften Einheiten, warenweiterlesen