Busting the Myths About A.I. Invading Our Lives<br />And though the Google Assistant — like other digital assistants from the likes of Amazon<br />and Apple — does a decent job of responding to some questions and commands, it is a long way from not just recognizing but actually understanding conversational speech.<br />What are the potential pitfalls of so much A. I.<br />services, like the one that handles the voice for the Google Assistant, learn tasks by analyzing enormous amounts of data.<br />Researchers at a Google A. I.<br />lab in London built a system that learns to speak by analyzing recordings of human voices and identifying the patterns that make them human.<br />Look at the Amazon Echo, the autonomous cars now being tested in places like the Phoenix<br />area, the enormous improvements of widely used services like Google Translate.<br />A good thing to try is the digital assistant on the latest Google Pixel phone<br />because it shows both the power of artificial intelligence and the limitations.<br />The other worry is that the rise of certain technologies — including autonomous cars and other robotics — will significantly shift the job market.
