A.I. Assistants/Platform shift Mobile New idea Frenzy Scaling Maturity PCs ? Maturity You are here Inspired from: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/12/8/mobile-is-eating-the-world
VUI/Human to human vs. Human to computer Spoken Language 100,000 years Chat bots & AI Assistants <7 years Dictation software 20 years Smartphones 25 years Internet 30 years Word processor 40 years Speech recognition 50 years Computers 70 years TTS 80 years Typing 150 years Print 575 years Writing 5,000 years Inspired from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSUPVbbhIGA
VUI/Some design principles Create a persona Context No errors Character Pace Tone Energy level Where is the user? What are they doing? Which device? "Sorry, try Command 1"
G. Home & G. Assistant/Intro How about having your personal assistant wherever you’re? How about a new VUI?, just ask for things to be done for you. An evolutive AI made by Google ready to help!
G. Home & G. Assistant/What can I do with it?! ➔ Play a YouTube video on a chromecast enabled device ➔ Play music (Play Music, Spotify) ➔ Monitor the Nest Thermostat ➔ Ask for events on your calendar ➔ Block the next hour on your calendar (with IFTTT) ➔ Get a summary for your day ➔ Play voice games ➔ Personality questions
G. Home & G. Assistant/Fragmentation Pixel Home Wear Allo Play music Set reminders Add item to shopping list Get the news Send messages Device controls Search with Google Order an Uber Set timers, set alarms, get the weather, find answers, translations, ...
Actions on Google/Developer tools summary Actions on Google Actions SDK API.AI NodeJS library that helps you use the Conversation API You have to do all the heavy work in order to extract parameters from the user's request Actions on Google integration BUT also: Android, iOS SDKs and other integrations NLU built-in
Final thoughts ➔ Next platform? Big developer/brand opportunity ◆ Platform fragmentation? ➔ Not all UI is better through a VUI ➔ Less but more friction ➔ Accessibility
Resources ➔ Intro to A.I. Assistants ◆ http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/12/8/mobile-is-eating-the-world ◆ http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/1/30/mobile-20 ◆ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/docs/whatsne ➔ A new kind of UI: VUI ◆ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSUPVbbhIGA ◆ http://g.co/dev/ActionsChecklist ◆ http://g.co/dev/ActionsDesign ➔ Google Home and Google Assistant ◆ https://blog.google/products/assistant/personal-google-just-you/ ◆ http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/13/google-assistant-four-months-later/ ◆ https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/843852120562552832 ➔ Actions on Google ◆ https://developers.google.com/actions/ ◆ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e0RGIul8Kk ➔ Final thoughts ◆ http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/2/22/voice-and-the-uncanny-valley-of-ai