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This also happens to me. The conference rooms on the floor I work on are named after landmarks in Manhattan. Meeting invites often say something like "2PM in Battery Park". So at about 1:30, my phone vibrates and says it's going to take 25 minutes to take the subway there. Heh.
My horse is named Friday.
With a little imagination, it's not hard to see why some are nervous about a search engine that stores every interaction in an attempt to profile its users and guess their intentions. Don your finest tin foil hat as we channel surf some internet TV stations from the future: LIGHTS DIM; THE GLOW OF A COMPUTER SCREEN FILLS THE ROOM "In what is thought to be a world-first, a man's life was saved late Friday following au…
I have been using Google Now for a few months now and it has been amazing. Example 1: One night I was going to a Roots concert and I went through the venue's website on my Google Chrome on my laptop. Then, right around concert time, Google Now alerted me to what subway I should take to get there. Example 2: I searched for the Phillies score once on my tablet, and now my phone tells me about the score of each game. Ag…
Example 3 is very disconcerting from a privacy standpoint.
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Which is why it seems to me that introducing Siri was a dumb move for Apple: UI is one of Apple's core competencies, but machine intelligence is pretty much the one thing Google is best at.
But it was smart of Apple to get their product to market first. Waiting for it to be "finished", then being stuck behind Google in ML technology indefinitely, would have been dumb.
So I can steal someone's phone, and just have it remind me of all that user's private info by walking around? Nifty. Edit: I know the above is glib, and I'm not trying to rain on the parade of unbelievable achievements in data-wrangling that are going on here (I'd love to hear how it's done computationally), but I don't like knowing that all the privacy controls something like this deserves will be rolled out hastily…
Google Now is awesome. Search for a place on Google - card shows up with driving directions on phone. Morning and evening, shows up driving time/directions for work/home.
Why are you people thinking this is better than Microsoft Words annoying Clippy? "It seems like you are writing a letter..." I already know how to get to work every day.
Google Now is awesome. Search for a place on Google - card shows up with driving directions on phone. Morning and evening, shows up driving time/directions for work/home.
Why are you people thinking this is better than Microsoft Words annoying Clippy? "It seems like you are writing a letter..." I already know how to get to work every day.
Google Now is awesome. Search for a place on Google - card shows up with driving directions on phone. Morning and evening, shows up driving time/directions for work/home.
Why are you people thinking this is better than Microsoft Words annoying Clippy? "It seems like you are writing a letter..." I already know how to get to work every day.
Extra information when presented unobtrusively is not annoying.
a. Do you know how long it's going to take today? If there're any specific traffic issues that are causing delays on your usual route?
b. What if you have an appointment today to a different place than work - wouldn't you like to know the route there?
c. If you take transit, wouldn't you like to see bus routes when you reach the bus stop, instead of manually searching for it?
Think of it as your Personal Assistant... Not sure why you wouldn't want one that's always with you and can be flicked away if it's not what you want [permanently or only this time].
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Are you sure Google guessed in Example 3? It usually does the "leave now to get there on time" for every event in your calendar (for which it can find some kind of geographical reference, fitting or not).
Yes, it mines google latitude data for that. Since I left my office job and started running my own business from home. Latitude has been getting very confused about where I work. Last time I checked it thought I worked at the local shopping centre. Edit: Just checked, it now thinks I work at my kid's school.
Aggregated data from a number of different sources can give a near-complete picture on a customer.
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Really cool, but am I the only one who finds this creepy as hell?
I'm not trying to be glib, but: so what? Some people will use it, because it will provide value to them. I may be one of them. Kids born today will, if nothing changes, think this stuff is absolutely normal. Your reaction is a valid one, and I have my limits too, but I think we're beyond the point of merely acknowledging that it's creepy. Please go further: Where is the line? Why? And what are you willing to do about…