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It was amusing to read John (Daring Fireball) Gruber's posts accusing Google of lying on State at I/O, and making up the demo phone calls. A simple question to
by tsycho 8y ago
It was amusing to read John (Daring Fireball) Gruber's posts accusing Google of lying on State at I/O, and making up the demo phone calls.
A simple question to ask would have been: What would Google gain by lying? And how much more credibility would it lose by blatantly lying about its capabilities, on stage, at its biggest annual event?
The incentives don't align, and hence the simplest explanation was that they weren't.
- s3r3nity 8y agoWhile I didn't agree with Gruber, I could understand and see there are many reasons / incentives. Two possibilities 1) Getting excitement about a product before it's fully baked and ready 2) Evaluating consumer response to a potentially "scary" project (recall that a lot of opinion pieces came out after I/O mentioning how unnerved some folks were to the idea of an AI voice mimicking human speech "ticks," like "umm"'s or "ahh"'s.