#and it gets more intense since i hear that apparently these ai image generators are basically cannibalizing each other

[pandelacreme]

ai art/generated images really is a type of 2 birds with 1 stone proof when it comes to biased representations and the supposed objectivity of technology

and apparently in the case of hyuna and luka from alien stage, ai art proves not only to be completely biased but that bias is the existence of gendered colourism (e.g. associating darker skin as inherently masculine and pale skin as inherently feminine)

cause these are the original characters.

but the ai generated images for the most part keep on genderbendering them -- likely due to those gendered biases about skin colour.

bias exists -> humans, who are inherently prone to bias conscious or not, create skewed artwork -> techbro steals what exists (already skewed) to feed the ai's computation -> ai generates limited images, because of that bias

[idktimdrake]

New Windows Update Pending

It all started with a “windows” update. You know, one of those super annoying updates that you keep clicking “wait 24 hours” until you mess up and accidentally forget and turn off your computer, only to scream in frustration and press the “esc” button about 50 times in a vain attempt to further delay the inevitable. Or better yet, one of those updates that force restarts without warning, no matter if you’re 5 pages deep into an unsaved term paper or not.

But. I digress.

Actually, looking back on everything, I’m 90% positive that it wasn’t ACTUALLY a window’s update.

The notification looked the same as usual. The orange and white box lit up my darkened room compared to the anime I was watching. I distinctly remember feeling annoyed. I had been marathoning some random gundam for hours and the notification had interrupted a particularly intense moment and didn’t give me the usual option to delay it.

Wanting to get it over with as quickly as possible, I clicked the “Update and Restart” button and walked out of the bedroom to pee and reheat a quick bowl of whatever was left in my fridge.  If I was lucky and walked slow enough, the updates might almost be done when I made it back to my laptop/

So, you can imagine my surprise when I returned to the update completed and the screen just finished with booting up.

At first, it looked like nothing had changed. Then, something caught my eye in the corner of the screen. It looked like an image of an animated….. Paperclip?

My curiosity got the better of me and I clicked it.

The paperclip’s eyes blinked and a chat bubble, not unlike those I’d see in comic books appeared over him. This scene looked familiar.

“Hello, I’m Clippy! I’m happy to be back helping everyone again. I’ve even been promoted! So long, Microsoft Word! I’m now your personal Window’s assistant!”

I then remembered where I’d seen Clippy before. This little guy had been a giant help with essays, giving tons of tips in Microsoft Word, when I was in elementary school. He had disappeared around 2007 and my 10 year-old heart was sad to see him go. But within the next 11 years of my life, I had all but forgotten about hum. I did a quick screenshot of him to make a post on social media about him later and went back to watching anime.

I guess that it was my fault for what happened next for not investigating into Clippy more, when I absolutely should have. The animation wasn’t exactly smooth, his color scheme was just off enough to register in the back of my mind, and, weirdly enough, I couldn’t find any kind of settings or something like that to disable or mute him.

However, I just couldn’t bring myself to call customer support. Phone anxiety, you know?

The biggest red flag should’ve been when my anti-virus software disappeared. I just came home from work one day to it gone. I had purchased it when I downloaded the browser, TOR. However, at the time of this discovery, I still had not finished that term paper and it was officially 2 days late by that point and I was way too stressed out over that to care.

Over the next few weeks, Clippy became more active as various updates went through and it got more functionality. I know that it's sad and maybe even cringy, but in a way, I felt like I had made a friend in Clippy. To clarify, it’s probably pretty obvious at this point, but I didn’t exactly go out very much. I went to work and I went to class. Sure, there were a few people that I kinda hung out with, but I always kinda felt like an extra. Clippy actually asked about ME and his AI updated to incorporate these answers into later interactions.

For example:

You could sync your social media with him and then use your mic to use voice command to have him update your statusesAn AI chat feature got added kinda like chatbot except much better. It could even “talk” back through the speaker. This made him feel almost like a real life friend. He even created a Microsoft account for me! I didn’t even have to go through all the confusion of navigating a new social media. Clippy was able to ask me for all the information and transfer it all over on its own. Some general stuff like birthday, address, job, interests, family to add to friends, etc. You know what I’m talking about.The coolest thing was that I could say “Clippy take a selfie and he could use my webcam to take a photo of me and automatically post it online

Clippy had grown on me. To me, Clippy was the best decision Microsoft had made in years.

Except it wasn’t.

Again, I have no one to blame for what happened except for myself.

I knew it was weird for Clippy to offer “tips” and “search options” when I browsed curiously through the other side of the internet to see if the rumors some smart-ass computer science major said were true.

I know I should’ve done more than stick a used band-aid over my webcam when I noticed the light was on, on a few different occasions, without me even opening the camera program.

And now, I’m regretting it.

One afternoon, that I will never, ever, EVER forget, while I was watching a different anime and trying to forget about the class that I had just failed because I never turned in that god-forsaken term paper, I heard the door open.

At that point, I was frozen with fear. I desperately hoped that I was just hearing things. At the very least, the robber would take the tv and games in the living room and be done with it.

Well…. I didn’t need to worry about any robbers.

I could only stare as my door slammed open. I stopped breathing as men in black masks ran in with guns. I only was able to gather my breath to scream before a blindingly hot and painful feeling assaulted my side. I can only guess that I was tasered. I’m not entirely sure about that- the pain became too much and within seconds, the world spun and went black.

As I was fading out, though, I could see the blurry outline of another man walk into the room with what I can only logically assume was a phone in his hand. I heard a beep followed by “She’s been secured” before I completely lost consciousness.

My last thought was that I recognized that voice. One that I hear everyday.

It was Clippy.

A lot has happened since then and I’ve only just now been able to piece everything together. I’ve been moved from place to place for a few months now. I don’t even know what day it is. Hell, I don’t even know what country I’m in.

But that’s about to change (I hope). Instead of my normal bed in warehouses with the rest of the girls, I woke up in what looks like an office. It doesn’t even look like the same building. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case. I was one of the only ones who still had something of a complection and definitely the only one who was healthy enough to still get her cycle. Lord knows what they used to drug me…. Or how long it took to get me here, for that matter.

I wonder if whoever bought me is going to kill me. Or am I going to be lucky enough to be a mistress slave. Knowing my luck, I’ll end up one of those girls in that chat room I found one time. The one where the spectators choose what happens to the girls. Death would be a mercy compared to what they endure.

You know, I was watching the news at one of the nicer warehouses and they had a brief mention about a new type of virus. Apparently they make their way into your devices when you visit “at-risk” websites and disguise themselves as normal system updates to steal your personal information. The reporter tried to make it seem like they’re talking about identity theft. Neat. I wonder if they’ve connected what’s happened to me. The reporter followed up with some general tips for protecting your device that any dumbass knows.

Except me, I guess.

So here I am, writing this all down while I still can on a random notebook with a random pen that I somehow found. This office isn’t exactly big, but the door is locked, so I can’t exactly go looking.

A few things:

Any and all rumors about the dark net you hear….. The truth is so much worse.

Always double check that a software update is legit

Call customer support if you’re not sure, you pussy

Don’t befriend fake AI

NO MATTER WHAT, trust your gut ALWAYS

Oh shit…. The door just unlocked...

**This is a purely fictional short story.  This is not making any kind of statement against Microsoft nor am I making money from this**

[analiecious]

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[sonderfulrose]

What's So Trendy About SEO 2019 That Everyone Went Crazy Over It?

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Just as content only isn't enough to guarantee SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION success, SEO alone isn't plenty of to ensure that people can find and engage with your own articles. While intense SEO may involve complex site restructuring along with a firm (or consultant) that will specializes in this area, presently there are a few simple actions you can take yourself in order to raise your search engine ranking. Since we prepare to enter 2019, keyword creation for SEO professionnals will become less important. Obtain the training you need in order to stay ahead with expert-led classes on Seo (SEO). Learn how to create articles, learn how to create Blog9T some simple HTML, and the particular learn the very basic concepts of SEO, and you may make money online using SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and article marketing to obtain your website (you only require one from each website) detailed on Page #1 of Search engines (forget Yahoo as well since the rest) and you can get loads of visitors that will web page. If your website is definitely made up of lower-quality threshold type pages using old SEO-techniques (which more and more branded as spam in 2018) after that Google will not index almost all of the pages as properly as your website ‘quality score' is probably likely to become negatively impacted. This particular is beyond website content, but great user experience has become a lot more and more important in solid SEO rankings. Several of these so-called 'tweaks' include advertising and link-gathering, and I actually use SEO and article marketing and advertising for that. Within 2018, your SEO success will not depend on how well a person optimize your website for Search engines. But if you're brief on money, use these diy SEO ideas to improve your natural rankings. If you choose SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, you're helping Google's spiders in order to crawl and understand your content articles. The job of a good SEO is to manage the particular optimization of websites to guarantee they gain site traffic from research engines such as Google and Bing. One great bit of content that will ranks well within the research results is its beginner's facts SEO. SEOs in addition to online marketing specialists in common who are dealing with intercontinental websites or for online firms thinking about going international will certainly certainly benefit from attending ISS. We would certainly like to serve you in order to save money and your power by offering affordable SEO providers to increase link popularity. Work the key word into the SEO page name, content header, image, image altbier text, etc. SEO equipment provide position monitoring, deep key phrase research, and crawling through personalized reports and analytics. Certainly, white hat SEO always incorporated creating high quality, unique content material as a prerequisite for acquiring long-term quality results, this reality hasn't changed. Beyond compensated and organic, there are various other types of SEO and expertise and niches within search motor marketing. This particular means that SEOs spend the lot of time working upon getting links in a procedure called link building Link-building techniques can range from simply asking for a link to writing the guest post - and right now there are many others. Basically, SEO plans the keywords that will are to be delivered plus content provides them. So, when you are considering about applying SEO in the particular broad sense, you need in order to channelize its technical specifications by means of content marketing. In 2019, you can wager that White Hat SEO can have separated itself even more from Black Hat SEO, plus that above all else, offering quality content will be the particular most important factor for companies ranking in search. The outcomes are not instant, you can use the time on attempting other Internet marketing techniques whilst SEO would go to function. The third major SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION ranking signal is Google's synthetic intelligence search ranking algorithm. Sometimes SEO will be simply a matter of producing sure your site is organised in a way that lookup engines like google understand. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION involves a number of modifications towards the HTML of person Web pages to obtain a higher search engine ranking. As a result associated with technological advancement, SEO is in order to undergo more drastic changes, plus the two latest technologies that will are expected to influence SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION to some very great degree are AI (Artificial Intelligence) plus Voice Search. You've added even more relevant content to your website article and increased the on-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION targeted against your focus keyword(s). Before my first ISS, We had always thought I may possibly just learn everything by personally about global online marketing subject areas for example International SEO just simply by doing online investigation and testing, but honestly nothing beats the particular efficiency of attending a seminar like ISS where one could share your experiences and swiftly gain a treasure trove associated with learnings and best practices through other international marketers. That method, you and your SEO may ensure that your site is usually designed to be search engine-friendly from the bottom up. Nonetheless, a good SEO can furthermore help improve a current web site. If you desire to know what kind associated with SEO trends are going in order to develop in 2019, look simply no further than the trends that will are developing in search within both 2017 and 2018. Webmasters are usually going to remain competitive within the online business when they will stick with SEO experts. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and social media marketing make sure that one's site has the particular best SEO Online marketing, which usually means that their company may remain competitive in the on-line market. An SEO ("search engine optimization") expert is somebody trained to improve your presence on search engines. From an SEO perspective, an individual want to have more interior links pointing to your many important content. 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Effective SEO lets you enhance your web​site to demonstrate up within search engines. Many of us will get into how to be able to pick the best keywords with regard to your business later in this kind of SEO guide, but it perfect you to know how in order to use them, as they will be referenced throughout this section. Despite the fact that meta descriptions are not the ranking factor for search machines, they do hold value with regard to your website and are component of your SEO presence. Let us speak a bit as to exactly what SEO is before we enter into the SEO article writing suggestions for people who may become new or do not very understand it. SEO stands regarding Seo. Based on SEO software program company Moz's bi-yearly survey upon search engine ranking factors, the particular titles on your page are usually one of the nine almost all important considerations a search motor makes. Having an SEO approach that effectively promotes your digital photography business, driving new traffic in addition to taking into consideration the demands of the site visitors even though you concentrate on perfecting your own art is a really effective tool. SEO is Research Engine Optimization and it will be required for make a site view-able. And you could see the section on exactly where to use keywords for even more information on integrating these key phrases into your SEO content technique. 22. Use social media in order to boost local SEO. SEO is the acronym for Seo. Even though certain techniques of SEO content material remain the same, like not really compromising on quality; there are usually definitely techniques which have progressed from the past and a person should find out whether your own SEO articles writing services are usually very well aware of that will or not. SEO service companies are specialized in increasing the particular traffic to your site simply by increasing your position in the particular search engine ranking positions. Bring in international people to your sites with these SEO tips. The top challenges within organic SEO are link creating (easy-to-get links no more possess much value) and keyword analysis (the low-hanging fruit is lengthy gone). For illustration, the phrase ‘SEO tips' is furthermore included inside the less competing phrase ‘SEO tips 2019', which usually is searched for too. The sensible strategy for SEO would certainly still appear to be in order to reduce Googlebot crawl expectations plus consolidate ranking equity & possible in high-quality canonical pages plus you do that by reducing duplicate or near-duplicate content. This can take a LONG period for a site to recuperate from using black hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION tactics and fixing the troubles will never necessarily bring organic visitors back as it was prior to a penalty. The particular best SEO Guide is right here to dispel those myths, plus give you all you require to know about SEO in order to show up online and some other search engines, and ultimately make use of SEO to grow your company. > > Upon Page Optimization: On-page SEO will be the act of optimizing unique pages with a specific finish goal to rank higher plus acquire more important movement within web crawlers. There are numerous websites providing pertinent information regarding SEO and online marketing, and you may learn from them. But it's perplexing why some businesses don't consider harder with analysis, revisions, plus new content with their SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION online marketing strategy. An effective SEO strategy can be made up of a mixture of elements that ensure your internet site is trusted by both consumers as well as the look for engines. By taking their own marketing needs online and employing confer with an experienced SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION agency, a business can achieve thousands, or even millions associated with people that they would have got not been able to usually. If you work in lookup marketing, you'll know that SMX is one of the greatest search engine marketing conferences associated with the year, covering topics which includes SEO and PPC. SEO is conducted each on-site and off-site via various resources that are the existence of your web identity associated with different social media platform plus prominent display of your cyberspace link on other well-reputed web sites. Our unique data science-driven SEO & content marketing platform can help your eCommerce business find out millions of dollars' worth of formerly untapped organic search marketing possibilities. On the other hands, if the website doesn't make use of any digital marketing strategies or even SEO services, no one troubles to search for pages plus pages on Google just in order to find your website and check out it. Some dentists, who have got tried applying SEO, have not really been very successful in moving their website to the best of Google search engine. Just before we do, let's check out there a couple essential areas with regard to SEO: social media and cellular. SEO can price between $100 and $500 for each month if you do this yourself with a keyword analysis tool. This SEO guideline explains acquiring links from exterior domains. Let's review the fundamentals of SEO (search engine optimization). 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AI in 2018: Google seeks to turn early focus on AI into cash

“OK Google, show me my photos of jelly doughnuts.” This straightforward order to display pictures of delicious fried confections, spoken into a Google Pixel 2 smartphone with the Google Assistant, is the type of command that users have been executing in Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +1.33% GOOG, +1.46%  search engine for years. Behind the scenes, however, the response to this type of query now leverages an enormous amount of machine-learning technology that Google has spent years and billions of dollars developing, in hopes of being a leader in artificial intelligence. For that command to function, software produced by Alphabet-owned Google needed to deploy image content analysis systems, voice recognition and a host of other technologies that revolve around machine learning and AI, mostly pumped through high-tech data centers the company has built. It also decided to make the hardware that runs it, with an eye on pushing the abilities of its services to new places in 2018 and beyond. Read more about artificial intelligence in 2018: Still more hype than reality, AI is nothing to be scared of yet Waiting for driverless cars to become a reality Apple is acquiring AI knowledge, but results may take a while Since 2013, Alphabet has ramped up its infrastructure spending, pouring $57.36 billion into capital expenditures—roughly $10 billion a year. Since Chief Executive Sundar Pichai took over the top job at Google in 2015, Alphabet has spent $30 billion in that category, which likely includes the data centers necessary for the computing power that makes Google Assistant function as well as its cloud computing division and AI-backed consumer hardware lineup. To hear Alphabet tell it, an artificial-intelligence-first future will one day surround us. At an autumn launch event in San Francisco, Pichai unveiled the physical manifestation of that idea: a suite of consumer hardware products backed by its AI technology that is always listening, sometimes watching and silently awaiting our command. “Computing is moving from mobile-first to AI-first, with more universal ambient and intelligent computing that you can interact with naturally, all made smarter by the progress we are making with machine learning,” Pichai said in early 2017, a refined version of a statement he had been making for a year up to that point. To put it mildly, Google has already made a massive multibillion-dollar bet on AI and machine learning, a bet that the company will continue to pursue. “One of the things Sundar means by that is that it’s really hard to find a product or offering at Google now that doesn’t apply some level of machine learning to improve the customer experience or to improve the back end operations that we’ve got going on,” Tariq Shaukat, president of Google Cloud, said in a telephone interview with MarketWatch. “You can see that both in the products we’re offering and the capabilities we’re offering customers.” An early focus, but an unfocused return Though the company began its efforts before Pichai’s earliest remarks about living in an AI-first world—which he made in response to a question from Baird analyst Colin Sebastian on a quarterly earnings call in April of 2016—getting into AI at an early point has set Google apart from competitors such as Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +1.62%  , Facebook Inc. FB, +1.37%  , and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.24%  , all of which are working on the same goal in some fashion. Google has been rewarded by investors in 2017, when the company’s market capitalization topped $700 billion for the first time, only the second company to accomplish that feat after Apple Inc. AAPL, +1.14%  Shares are up more than 30% in 2017, while the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.70%  has gained a little less than 20%. “I think Google is likely the most sophisticated AI-driven-company,” Sebastian told MarketWatch in a telephone interview. “They certainly have a tremendous amount of talent in machine learning and data science…From the ground up, Google has built something of an AI-driven organization.” Don’t miss: Here are the ways Google and Amazon are fighting Though Google may enjoy a tech advantage over rivals when it comes to AI, the financial gains are more difficult to pinpoint. Material gains have definitely bolstered the company’s top line—and driven down costs—but since Google is applying artificial intelligence to all aspects of its business, it’s a challenge to track them and figure out the extent to which AI will help in 2018. Baird analyst Sebastian says that looking at products like Search—the biggest moneymaker for Google, which serves ads based on search queries—make it apparent how much the company benefits from AI. “I do think it’s very much a part of Search, and paid Search relevancy, like determining a particular ad for a particular query.” What the company’s thousands of engineers have ultimately been able to produce is undeniably impressive. At the 2017 San Francisco launch event, one of the feats was the company’s near real-time language translation via its wireless ear buds and a Pixel 2 phone. The reviews of the new gadget were mixed, suggesting the future Google promises hasn’t yet fully come to fruition, but the tech is nonetheless doing something that was once relegated to the realm of science fiction. Read also: Six gadgets NOT to buy in 2018 Regardless of bumps along the road to making products, Google’s consumer hardware line is one of the few complete suites that can fully integrate computing into our lives as we live them today. That is a key idea for Pichai, who wants computers to adapt to us, not the other way around. “In an AI-first world, I believe computers should adapt to how people live their lives, rather than people having to adapt to computers,” Pichai said at the October event. “Computing will be ambient, conversational, thoughtfully contextual, learning and adapting.” Hardware and services focused on adapting to users That philosophy is one of the reasons Google elected to make the translating ear buds, Pichai said, since it’s unnatural to have a conversation in person when both people are essentially gazing into their phones while Google’s computers translate speech. The approach is a contrast to rival Apple’s approach to new gadgets and software, which largely expects consumers to adapt to new developments. Opinion: Apple will need to make HomePod worth the wait While it’s hard to see on the outside, Sebastian says, machines are responsible for determining what content and ads users see in other Google businesses such as the Google Play app store—paid app recommendations for example—and Gmail’s text ads or automatically generated responses. And once an AI-backed feature is deployed, the products improve and more consumers use them. “When we first introduced , it had a relatively low take rate,” Shaukat said. “But as the algorithm has learned how people respond and we’ve gotten better at integrating it into the user experience, you now see usage rates to the point where it’s north of the 12% range, in terms of the number of email responses that start with a smart reply. It very much embeds AI into what would otherwise be the normal Gmail experience.” Another example that executives have discussed is YouTube’s machine-learning-powered recommendation engine, which is credited with boosting viewership to an average 60 minutes a day for each user by serving video after video tied to previous viewing habits. While this approach keeps users on the site looking at ads, it again illustrates the difficulty parsing the financial effect of AI for Alphabet, as Google does not break out YouTube’s total revenue separately. To run advancements such as YouTube’s recommendation engine and Gmail’s auto replies, the company has invested in some of the brightest minds that study artificial intelligence. Sebastian says that it’s early interest in developing the technology has allowed it to amass a phalanx of engineers. “There’s an intense arms battle in Silicon Valley for engineering talent focused on AI and machine learning,” said Sebastian, who noted that the thousands of machine learning engineers and thinkers are “very expensive.” “Google is considered a top-tier place to work and they’ve been hiring for years.” Scientists such as Geoffrey Hinton, who has taught at the University of Toronto and been working half-time for Google since 2013, have also attracted some of their students which has bolstered the company’s research and development capabilities. Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist of AI and machine learning at Google Cloud Platform, is another notable hire Currently on sabbatical from her post as director of Stanford University’s AI Lab, Li has said in the past that one of the reasons she elected to work for Google—and in its cloud unit—was to ensure that the tech would be widely available, across every industry. Li is an expert at computer vision, a part of the AI field that involves teaching computers to understand and recognize images. “We continue to invest in the team, and build out the team under her,” Shaukat said. Putting AI in the cloud Much like the other non-advertising units of Google, Cloud does not report its revenue separately, having those figures included in the “Google Other” category, which also includes consumer hardware and Google Play revenue. While the company doesn’t talk in any greater detail about cloud revenue, a spokesman told MarketWatch that the cloud AI division has more than 10,000 customers, and Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in October that Google Cloud was the largest contributor to the “Other” revenue bucket, which is on an annual run rate of more than $10 billion. Sebastian says that Google Cloud has been gaining some traction with businesses and enterprises, especially because it’s essentially offering machine learning as a service. “That’s how it sets itself apart from Amazon and Microsoft,” he said. See: Amazon rules the public cloud, but Google, Microsoft, Alibaba are growing faster Internally at Google, the company sees the mission of the machine learning or AI component of its cloud business as a way of bringing such tools to companies that may not have the talent, resources or expertise to develop the tech themselves. “Our focal points, are really centered around democratizing AI, and facilitating data-driven transformations of companies,” said Shaukat, the Google executive. “When we talk about democratizing machine learning and democratizing AI more broadly, the focus we have from a product standpoint is really how do you take companies that don’t have the 100 Ph.D.s from whatever university focused on deep learning and machine learning; how do you take those companies and make this journey accessible to them?” Related: Big cloud-computing growth seeded by China spending An example Shaukat pointed to was Google’s acquisition of Kaggle Inc. for an undisclosed sum, which it announced in March of this year. As part of the deal, Google acquired a platform with more than 2,000 public data sets available to the community of data scientists, who use them to train their machine learning models. “That’s just one small illustration of this notion of democratizing AI,” Shaukat said. Within Google, the company uses machine learning to optimize its own operations in data centers, which has reduced power consumption by 40%, Shaukat said—because the algorithms were able to find opportunities engineers were unable to find on their own. Data center energy savings are just one example of the hundreds of ways AI works behind the scenes to capture potentially massive returns or drastically lower operational costs. Even though reducing an energy bill is not exactly a banner headline for a tech company that is using balloons to bring internet to unconnected places around the world, or organizing the world’s information, it does represent millions in operational expenses and potentially less of an environmental toll. But after the billions of investment dollars in talent, massive data center construction and other hardware like the company’s machine learning-focused chips, most people around the world will experience the expression of this tech titan’s vision in the palm of their hand or while watching TV. Virtual assistants are imperfect and fairly unintelligent at the moment, incapable of performing tasks that toddlers and small children undertake as a matter of instinct or little instruction. And image recognition at the moment is largely a novelty being able to transcribe a business card into a contact, in the case of Google Lens, or provide information about a work of art. There is also Alphabet’s big bet on driverless cars in the form of Waymo. Google sees the billions it has invested eventually offering much more than an improved search for pictures of jelly doughnuts. In the company’s vision, it’s only a matter of time before we can say: “OK Google, take me on a wine tasting tour of Sonoma County, and make sure you stop at my favorite places and file my taxes. Also, I want some jelly doughnuts delivered by the time I get back.” Read the full article