Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m...
by tschwimmer on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:19PM
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FWIW, I tried the first query on Google Home and it suggested I talk to a third party extension called "Air Check." I didn't go through with connecting it but I assume it would give you what you wanted. It sounds like you were on mobile so maybe it's different there. I actually appreciate it prompting to connect before making the request because there's probably some privacy tradeoff there.
The second query was hard for me to test but it seems like a reasonable one to make.
The third one is probably impossible due to Instagram's TOS (among other things.) Their TOS states: "You must not crawl, scrape, or otherwise cache any content from Instagram including but not limited to user profiles and photos." [0] After Cambridge Analytica I'm not surprised that this is the case. Even if Instagram allowed scraping of their data, this feels like a somewhat specialized (though currently very relevant) request. I tried reformulating this request as "What is the mask compliance rate in Shasta county?" which also didn't turn up results, but I'm not surprised by that either. I suspect that data doesn't exist anywhere, so it's hard to fault the assistant for not pulling it up.
The second query was hard for me to test but it seems like a reasonable one to make.
The third one is probably impossible due to Instagram's TOS (among other things.) Their TOS states: "You must not crawl, scrape, or otherwise cache any content from Instagram including but not limited to user profiles and photos." [0] After Cambridge Analytica I'm not surprised that this is the case. Even if Instagram allowed scraping of their data, this feels like a somewhat specialized (though currently very relevant) request. I tried reformulating this request as "What is the mask compliance rate in Shasta county?" which also didn't turn up results, but I'm not surprised by that either. I suspect that data doesn't exist anywhere, so it's hard to fault the assistant for not pulling it up.
[0] https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/terms/before-january-1....