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New Pixels (I think 3, but it may only be 4) have an inference chip of some form. All of this is done on-device. They ported this to older devices, but it's not
by zamalek 6y ago
New Pixels (I think 3, but it may only be 4) have an inference chip of some form. All of this is done on-device. They ported this to older devices, but it's not as fast (but still offline).
The assistant is one place (probably only place) where Google has a better privacy story than most (including Apple). Notwithstanding the phone offline capabilities, you can tell the home devices (which use online transcription) "that was not for you" and they will delete what they heard.
- gruez 6y ago>All of this is done on-device Having an on-device inference chip doesn't preclude them from sending back "telemetry" to improve their models. Unless they explicitly say that they don't send back data (or there's a toggle for that), my default assumption is that they do.
- zamalek 6y agoThis is definitely true, the key thing here is that they don't have to (and assistant does work outside of service). In addition, there's no guarantee that "that was not for you" will actually delete details about the last command, but Apple doesn't even attempt this. You have no idea if something Siri shouldn't have heard will end up in a training dataset (disclaimer: I'm saying this in ignorance of the Siri privacy policy).