The new app can return information like weather, stock quotes, sports scores, flight details, language translations, YouTube videos, and any other fact-based answers which Google's Knowledge Graph can quickly deliver.
Fact-based answers, room for exploration, honesty about the parts I don't know myself.
The official response statement, however, is what is communicated once the organization has had the appropriate time to assess the situation and provide fact-based and confirmed answers to the bigger questions.
Google's voice recognition is top notch, and it has access to so much more data it's more surprising when it can't answer a fact-based question than when it can.
The doctors on the site (including Dr. Oz) aren't providing diagnoses, of course, but they do answer more fact-based health related questions, like "what does collagen do?" or "how does laser teeth whitening work?" There are also online communities where users can track topics and interests of their own, and connect with others.
"We do not believe we have answers to the many difficult questions raised by AI, but we are committed to convening the key stakeholders in an informed, fact-based quest to find those answers". "This new era will bring us closer to our shared dream of creating a better future for all of humanity," Li said in the video.
It launched Knowledge Graph Search last year, which now delivers answers to fact-based questions.
A separate team at Amazon has been rapidly improving Alexa's ability to answer questions by adding more fact-based information to Alexa's knowledge base, while also observing where holes still exist by analyzing users' queries that the assistant can't answer.
Like Alexa on Amazon devices, the in-app version can provide answers to basic, fact-based questions, like those about people, geography, dates, music, sports, and more, says Amazon.
No fact-based inquiry is going to provide a definitive answer to what remains a value judgement, one set to loom large ahead of the November election.
