7 Lingering Questions About Google Assistant

Among all the AI helpers from major tech companies, Google Assistant is the most mysterious. Google has billed Assistant as one component in "the next evolution of Google." Others, such as Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land, have gone a step further, imploring us to think of Assistant as "Google 2.0." Backchannel's Steven Levy has documented how Google is rebuilding its entire company around the type of machine learning that Assistant will showcase. Yet despite all of Assistant's potential, we know very little about how it'll operate.