Google Exec on How Android AI Plans to Beat Apple’s iPhone | WSJ

Google’s Gemini Live AI voice assistant on Android and Pixel 9 phones sounds almost human. Apple Siri and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have similar advanced voice capabilities on the way but if you have an Android phone, you can get the Gemini app now.

WSJ’s Joanna Stern tested it, and spoke exclusively with Google’s Android head Rick Osterloh about the company’s AI ambitions.

Chapters:
0:00 Android AI
1:12 AI phones and Gemini Live
3:49 Add Me photo features
4:58 Call Notes and privacy
7:29 Android vs. iPhone
8:32 Google’s AI Olympics ad

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[edarioq]

0:33 Sooo smart to answer the question with the same question! Whoaa

[isabella]

I'm amazed by Gemini's ability to fail every single tech demo in this interview. Good thing WSJ didn't edit them out!

[msingletary]

So Rick asked Gemini what questions it thought you would ask him and Gemini responded by asking what questions *he* thinks you'll ask him? Pretty big miss right off the bat there.

[abnertorres]

I swear this interview said so much and nothing at the same time 😑

[RichardsWorld]

My AI assistant will get in contact with your AI assistant.

[aidan]

"we've noticed a lot of people fake photos so we don't know what's real anymore" Let's make it worse 💀

[Mr.Coffee]

An AI that can’t set alarms and timers ? Isn’t that supposed to be the most basic stuff ?

[ledhicks]

"Edit the moment later, " that's basically changing reality - the reality that you two didn't take the photo together!

[CannabisTechLife]

" I can do 10 times more emails than hand written thank you notes" bruh Writing out a thank you note shows you TOOK THE TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY to actually show you care.

[MrTexasSteve]

The 'thank you notes' comment expresses how far he's outside of the personal side of relationships. The idea is to spend a few minutes thinking about the event or gift and then writing those thoughts out on a card to express your appreciation for it. It's not supposed to be a production line.

[BryonLetterman]

Google isn't worried about the Pixel market share. Android exists primarily as a portal for Google search.

[samapple]

Sending a handwritten thank-you note carries more weight than just texting or emailing. It's not about the time; it's about making time to show you care. You lost me there.

[ChuckMahon]

All of these AI features - still - don't seem usable in day to day life. I get the hype. And understand the background tech is very sophisticated - but there is nothing that Joanna showed that I feel like would help me day to day.

[derrickb]

"We're not using personal user data to train LLMs."
"We are using data our users have provided us to train LLMs".
Translation: "We are using your personal data to train our LLMs but it's cool because you unknowingly gave us permission when you clicked I Agree when logging into your google account"

[vitkasparek]

6:44 The AUDACITY to call themselves a trusted provider speaks volumes about how much they don’t care at all.

[Ampedup]

Photographers been shooting pictures, editing pictures and manipulating photos long before A.I myself included. We added people in, took people out, change the background, changed colors, changed eye colors, swapped clothes, added something that wasn't there, smooth out the skin, remove blemishes, remove objects, change face expressions etc etc
We had to do all of this manually. Fast forward today we have A.l that can help do these things with a single mouse click or even on our phones/tablets. And now we question what is a PHOTO. That's so dumb.

[VVeiQuek]

The guy asked "what kind of questions will she asking", the answer is a question back to the guy?

[lsdave]

So this is the guy that decides to never fully finish what they start. 13 messaging applications from Google, so many services just abandoned.

[bastabey]

"the world is not ready for us... it has to catch up"

"the ad was good.. the world didn't get it.. we will give it some time"

[dallasgrful]

4:55 no you are serving the shareholders