As per previous Post, Google Searches Your Personal Data (Calendar, Gmail, Photos), and Produces Consolidated Results, why can’t the Google Assistant take advantage of the same data sources?
Google may attempt to leapfrog their Digital Assistant competition by taking advantage of their ability to search against all Google products. The more personal data a Digital Assistant may access, the greater the potential for increased value per conversation.
As a first step, Google’s “Personal” Search tab in their Search UI has access to Google Calendar, Photos, and your Gmail data. No doubt other Google products are coming soon.
Big benefits are not just for the consumer to search through their Personal Goggle data, but provide that consolidated view to the AI Assistant. Does the Google [Digital] Assistant already have access to Google Keep data, for example. Is providing Google’s “Personal” search results a dependency to broadening the Digital Assistant’s access and usage? If so, these…
interactions are most likely based on a reactive model, rather than proactive dialogs, i.e. the Assistant initiating the conversation with the human.
Note: The “Google App” for mobile platforms does:
“What you need, before you ask. Stay a step ahead with Now cards about traffic for your commute, news, birthdays, scores and more.”
I’m not sure how proactive the Google AI is built to provide, but most likely, it’s barely scratching the service of what’s possible.
Modeling Personal, AI + Human Interactions
Starting from N number of accessible data sources, searching for actionable data points, correlating these data points to others, and then escalating to the human as a dynamic or predefined Assistant Consumer Workflow (ACW). Proactive, AI Digital Assistant initiates human contact to engage in commerce without otherwise being triggered by the consumer.
Actionable data point correlations can trigger multiple goals in parallel. However, the execution of goal based rules would need to be managed. The consumer doesn’t want to be bombarded with AI Assistant suggestions, but at the same time, “choice” opportunities may be appropriate, as the Google [mobile] App has implemented ‘Cards’ of bite size data, consumable from the UI, at the user’s discretion.
As an ongoing ‘background’ AI / ML process, Digital Assistant ‘server side’ agent may derive correlations between one or more data source records to get a deeper perspective of the person’s life, and potentially be proactive about providing input to the consumer decision making process.
For example,
- The proactive Google Assistant may suggest to book your annual fishing trip soon. Elevated Interaction to Consumer / User.
- The Assistant may search Gmail records referring to an annual fishing trip ‘last year’ in August. AI background server side parameter / profile search. Predefined Assistant Consumer Workflow (ACW) – “Annual Events” Category. Building workflows that are ‘predefined’ for a core set of goals/rules.
- AI Assistant may search user’s photo archive on the server side. Any photo metadata could be garnished from search, including date time stamps, abstracted to include ‘Season’ of Year, and other synonym tags.
- Photos from around ‘August’ may be earmarked for Assistant use
- Photos may be geo tagged, e.g. Lake Champlain, which is known for its fishing.
- All objects in the image may be stored as image metadata. Using image object recognition against all photos in the consumer’s repository, goal / rule execution may occur against pictures from last August, the Assistant may identify the “fishing buddies” posing with a huge “Bass fish”.
- In addition to the Assistant making the suggestion re: booking the trip, Google’s Assistant may bring up ‘highlighted’ photos from last fishing trip to ‘encourage’ the person to take the trip.
This type of interaction, the Assistant has the ability to proactively ‘coerce’ and influence the human decision making process. Building these interactive models of communication, and the ‘management’ process to govern the AI Assistant is within reach.
Predefined Assistant Consumer / User Workflows (ACW) may be created by third parties, such as Travel Agencies, or by industry groups, such as foods, “low hanging fruit” easy to implement the “time to get more milk” . Or, food may not be the best place to start, i.e. Amazon Dash