Google Assistant is starved for conversation

Google Home is a lovely prison for Google Assistant. Perhaps Google's new assistant should be asking for help instead of offering it. One of today's biggest opportunities for IT to make an impact is by automating business processes, manufacturing, repetitive tasks, and more. It's bad enough that the search and mobile OS giant chose to launch its answer to Siri and Alexa without a name, but it hasn't given it much of a home, either. While Siri has transitioned across Apple's product line and Amazon's Alexa is starting to creep into (admittedly) niche products such as portable Internet radios, and robots, Google Assistant has dribbled out into three products that represent an almost negligible percentage of the Android's enormous mobile footprint.