eBay's new Google Home chatbot can tell you how much your stuff is worth

Determining the value of some of that old gear taking up space in your closet or garage might become a lot easier if you have a Google Home. In an onstage demo at Google Cloud Next, eBay chief product officer RJ Pittman showed how the online auctioneer might tie into Google's digital assistant. He started in by asking the bot if eBay could find the value of his Canon digital camera. You can ask me what something is worth," the bot introduced itself. The chatbot asked a couple of follow-up questions, including the model of the camera (it was an EOS 5D), if it was new, and its overall condition.