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Google Says Assistant Will Be On a Billion Devices By the End of the Month, Up From Around 400 Million Devices Last Year (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the aggressive-expansion dept.

Days after Amazon revealed that 100 million Alexa-enabled devices have been sold, Google said today that it expects the billionth device with its AI Assistant to be sold later this month. From a report: Ahead of CES this morning, Google dropped a little stat update: Google expects Assistant to be on 1 billion devices total by the end of this month. That's up from around 400M devices this time a year ago. Google first announced Assistant back in May of 2016. By October of that year, they'd rolled it out to the Pixel/Pixel XL; nowadays, it's on TVs, smart speakers, tablets, smart watches, and just about every new Android phone that hits the market.

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  1. Stats I'd like to see..... by Killall+-9+Bash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. How many people USE assistant?
    2. How mnay people know they have it installed?

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    "Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
  2. Re:We need a new wiki.. by sdinfoserv · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't be an ass or an idiot. It's the exact contrary - The promise of all the wonderful things technology can do wasn't suppose to be funded by tech companies cannibalizing every personal and private detail about your life and selling it without your knowledge or consent. There's something morally wrong with being forced to accept being constantly watched (camera), monitored (browsing data, texts, apps, usage, purchases, etc) , listened to (microphone), tracked (GPS) without a crime or subpoena because your want to use technology. Like giving away your rights to your own DNA forever (in the ELU of 23andME for example) is morally reprehensible and should be illegal.
    When did citizens stop giving a shit about all those who spilled blood and died protecting freedoms we casually cast away for someone else's profit?