Thursday, November 22, 2018

Huge platform stickiness from training data for AI assistants

Because ML builds on the training data, the more the data, the more useful the AI could be, for you. Therefore, there's a huge platform stickiness. There's the trust issue, let's keep that separate (next para). If Google already has training data from your phone, why start afresh with Alexa? Why do you want 2 AI assistants?

There's the trust issue, let's keep that separate. As in, you assume that Google is good, in which case you want to trust it with all your training data (your search queries, your locations, so on) However, if you fear Google may turn bad, then you risk diversify.