Yeah I seen MKBHD mention it in his recent upload. Snapchat always has a nasty grainy look on my P2XL.
While I appreciate the constant improvement to the phone due to this third party hardware implementation (Google Visual Core enabled for third party websites), I am even more impressed with what Google is attempting to do not only on the Pixel phone software in particular but with their greater use of Artificial Intelligence to make our web experiences more satisfying. For me, I prefer to be able to respond to messages with a short reply and I frequently use Smart Reply in Inbox for example. I do not know how others view Smart Reply but it is often exactly what I want to say quickly. Often times, I am carrying something in one hand and attempting to hold the phone and reply with the other (yes voice to text is great too but if a canned, simply reply is at hand that says what I want I use it).
So when I read about this new Google patent for Reply, guessing what you will do online, for much more than the simple reply.....think Assistant. Predictive photo editing on Google is already a reality.
What else could it be used for? With Google's Waymo expected to launch the first commercial self driving taxi service vehicle in Phoenix, Arizona, it would not be too much of a stretch to think this AI could be used in autonomous vehicles. While we assume that the passenger will always control the destination of the AV, perhaps not. In the example in this link, the passenger might simply be able to say "Take me to a good restaurant". According to the article, "the car decides based on past preference, table availability, traffic, the knowledge that you’ll be going to a movie and the information about when that movie starts and where the theater is located."
A Google-styled predictive internet?
https://www.computerworld.com/artic...tions-about-google-s-predictive-internet.html