Lileks: How Many Robots Are Too Many?
9th October 2016
Wisdom from the man with the tall forehead.
Google (company motto: “We know what you’re doing, pal”) has announced a new personal assistant. It’s called “Assistant.” It sits on your countertop, answers questions, takes commands. If you have a Google dongle on your TV (and you should, because it’s fun to say “I have a Google dongle, ” just to see who blushes), you can say, “Play Season 43 of ‘Murder, She Wrote’ on Netflix,” and voilà.