Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
by danso on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:20PM
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I think ordinary people have a vague sense of how computer memory and computation works. Because online queries happen near-instantaneously (relatively speaking), people don’t assume there’s a need for this data to ever be stored, or be accessed by anything else besides the “Google” program at the point in time of the query.
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Re:Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
by Someone1234 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:37PM
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Your point was that "ordinary people" don't grasp the concept that it is Google, or Amazon, or Apple that is providing the answers when they use a Voice Assistant. In spite of their entire marketing saying exactly that.
They don't need to understand "computer memory or how computation works" to grasp that the person/entity you ask a question to, has to know that question in order to provide an answer. In fact you could have never used a computer and grasp that concept.
You're trying to make this more complex to mask the fact it is a logically flawed premise.