I am inspired every day by the questions that the Google Assistant raises, like how voice can support underserved populations, teach kids new things or help people with impaired speech communicate more easily. I sat down for a virtual chat with the CEO of Nara Logics to discuss some of the questions I had about Assistant.
Machine learning, the future of artificial intelligence, and the power of voice are some of the topics I had a lot of fun researching. You can watch the entire chat or check out a few things we said.
Many people who work with me like to challenge assumptions. When it comes to building products at Google, they use technology in new ways to try and solve real world problems I was part of the team that helped create the first machine learning-driven ads product. I am excited to use the same challenger spirit to build a world-class assistant that understands you and helps you. If we harness new technologies and challenge the limits of what is possible, we can change people's lives.
Many people don't have access to the information they need. People who can't read but want to use the internet are referred to as new internet users. New internet users are seeing hundreds of millions of voice queries every day. More than 30% of Hindi search queries are spoken. That insight makes a lot of sense. It is a compelling area to continue to invest in if you want to reach these people.
Understanding how a computer can understand humans is one of the holy grails of the assistant. That is anambitious goal. When we speak to each other, we rely on many different signals that are inherent to us as humans. To teach computers how humans express themselves, we need to ask what they are saying. That is what this product aspires to be. We ask ourselves how we can create a magical experience where the computer is able to understand what you are saying and adapt to you.
The right team is needed to complete this work. My top piece of advice is to build the best team of people. It requires a type of person I call a "pragmatic dreamer" You need people in the trenches to figure out the real engineering challenges that are standing in the way of big dreams. It is important that space is created for a team to ideate and explore the limits of technology.
We forget what technology is for when we are enamored by it. What are we trying to do for humans; what are we trying to do for them? Voice can be considered a technology in search of a problem, but I don't think of it that way. People have real problems that this technology can fix. There is a constant marriage of user problems and what technology can do to fix them. You can't go wrong if you keep people as your stars.
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