The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
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The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
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#2I choose Amazon for this because they are dedicated to it, it's a contributor to thei e-commerce business, and there is plenty of reason to believe they will still work a few years from now.
I have no such belief with Google in this case, it's one hobby among many disconnected from their main business. It is search but not web search.
I'm also building a snips.co device and am very interested in offline speach recognition both for pricacy and utility reasons.
Re: The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
#3Is Google twice as smart as Siri?
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/02/google-ai-has-almost-twice-t...
I’m considering adding one of these to my family of iOS devices. Siri is cool when it works, but I’d like something a little better. That, and I won’t have to watch my watch, phone, and tablet competing to answer my questions.
Finally, and most importantly, according to the article, Google appears to be improving the fastest.
Re: The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
#4Is Google twice as smart as Siri? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/02/google-ai-has-almost-twice-t... I’m considering adding one of these to my family of iOS devices. Siri is cool when it works, but I’d like something a little better. That, and I won’t have to watch my watch, phone, and tablet competing to answer my questions. Finally, and most importantly, according to the article, Google appears to be improving the fas…
I like the idea but I call foul at generalizing this result.
> Google's artificial intelligence technology has a considerably higher I.Q. than Apple's Siri virtual assistant,
This is device specific, and was done with phones, not home assistants. The google home device might be less intelligent, if it has lower local compute. This is also highly dependent on the quality of the microphone.
Finally, I suspect both companies are re-training the 'nets often, so these results are in flux.
Re: The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
#5I choose Amazon for this because they are dedicated to it, it's a contributor to thei e-commerce business, and there is plenty of reason to believe they will still work a few years from now. I have no such belief with Google in this case, it's one hobby among many disconnected from their main business. It is search but not web search. I'm also building a snips.co device and am very interested in offline speach recogn…
Google not serious/dedicated about voice-based search?
I can buy the argument that they are not as dedicated as Amazon when it comes to selling stuff via voice, but search via voice? They have been at it for like a decade already.
Re: The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
#6Is Google twice as smart as Siri? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/02/google-ai-has-almost-twice-t... I’m considering adding one of these to my family of iOS devices. Siri is cool when it works, but I’d like something a little better. That, and I won’t have to watch my watch, phone, and tablet competing to answer my questions. Finally, and most importantly, according to the article, Google appears to be improving the fas…
I like the idea but I call foul at generalizing this result. > Google's artificial intelligence technology has a considerably higher I.Q. than Apple's Siri virtual assistant, This is device specific, and was done with phones, not home assistants. The google home device might be less intelligent, if it has lower local compute. This is also highly dependent on the quality of the microphone. Finally, I suspect both comp…
> The google home device might be less intelligent, if it has lower local compute.
Other than some minor sound processing, does any of the assistant behavior on either Google Home or phones actually happen locally?
Re: The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
#7Is Google twice as smart as Siri? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/02/google-ai-has-almost-twice-t... I’m considering adding one of these to my family of iOS devices. Siri is cool when it works, but I’d like something a little better. That, and I won’t have to watch my watch, phone, and tablet competing to answer my questions. Finally, and most importantly, according to the article, Google appears to be improving the fas…
I like the idea but I call foul at generalizing this result. > Google's artificial intelligence technology has a considerably higher I.Q. than Apple's Siri virtual assistant, This is device specific, and was done with phones, not home assistants. The google home device might be less intelligent, if it has lower local compute. This is also highly dependent on the quality of the microphone. Finally, I suspect both comp…
All requests are sent to the cloud for both services, there is no relevant local compute
Re: The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
#8I choose Amazon for this because they are dedicated to it, it's a contributor to thei e-commerce business, and there is plenty of reason to believe they will still work a few years from now. I have no such belief with Google in this case, it's one hobby among many disconnected from their main business. It is search but not web search. I'm also building a snips.co device and am very interested in offline speach recogn…
Google has voice-based functionality pretty deeply embedded into Android - I really don't think it's going anywhere.
By contrast, I chose a Google Home over an Alexa because I think Google is better at AI - I am consistently surprised by how many random questions the Home can answer.
Re: The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
#9Is Google twice as smart as Siri? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/02/google-ai-has-almost-twice-t... I’m considering adding one of these to my family of iOS devices. Siri is cool when it works, but I’d like something a little better. That, and I won’t have to watch my watch, phone, and tablet competing to answer my questions. Finally, and most importantly, according to the article, Google appears to be improving the fas…
I love and use our 2 google homes on a daily basis, but they get significantly more useful if you are in google's ecosystem and have home automation.
For me, i'd give a super rough guess at my usage like this:
* 60% home automation (turning on and off lights when hands are full, ensuring doors are locked and garage door is closed, running "shortcuts" like "i'm leaving" which will lock up and arm the alarm in 5 minutes, etc...)
* 15% playing and controlling music/tv shows on various devices in the house (tv's with chromecasts, the home itself, etc...)
* 10% as a shopping list (it makes a damn good shopping list and it's nice as hell to be able to just yell at the thing to add "frosted mini wheats to the shopping list" the second you run out and have it synced to the whole family's phones)
* 9% as a "day planner" of sorts. Generally each morning I tell it "good morning" and it tells me the weather, things on my calendar, and starts playing some news snippets I setup.
* 5% for timers/alarms (really useful while cooking to be able to shout at it to start a timer for 15 minutes then walk away)
* 1% for the dumb trivia lookups/random information. Stuff like "how many calories in X?" or "when was the Apple II released?"
Re: The Google Home Mini Is Google’s $49 Answer to the Echo Dot
#10I choose Amazon for this because they are dedicated to it, it's a contributor to thei e-commerce business, and there is plenty of reason to believe they will still work a few years from now. I have no such belief with Google in this case, it's one hobby among many disconnected from their main business. It is search but not web search. I'm also building a snips.co device and am very interested in offline speach recogn…
Google has voice-based functionality pretty deeply embedded into Android - I really don't think it's going anywhere. By contrast, I chose a Google Home over an Alexa because I think Google is better at AI - I am consistently surprised by how many random questions the Home can answer.
Yeah, Google is really throwing their weight behind "AI". It seems like it's the most likely candidate that could eventually replace search as their "main product".