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the Google assistant is getting easier to use even for the less AI inclined you know how I know that those who lead the Google AI team were kids of the 80s because I can see that they're trying to avoid the Max Headroom hysteria there's more because you are going to see it as well yes it yes it yes namely the max syndrome syndrome story you see Max Headroom was a fictional AI character that had a smart witted but stuttering and distorted electronic voice here's how it works ready good during one of my my early broadcasts in the film I made a little joke first it was a movie then it was a television show and it became so popular that many kids began to copy the way Max Headroom spoke and there was lots of talk and fear in the media about raising a whole generation of stutterers you see Google knows that we've become accustomed to speaking to Google assistant in a certain way and imagine when AI is just ubiquitous everywhere and people learn to speak to AI in a certain way we don't want that to influence our culture to such an extent that we begin to speak to our teachers and our grandparents and our loved ones that way I understand that how much of it is a real fear I don't know but Google is thinking ahead and that's why they've come up with Google pretty please Google actually revealed pretty please to us in Google i/o 2018 but it's only now that we're seeing it in the wild the point of pretty please is simple to encourage people especially children to be polite and use proper manners when speaking with AI hey Google talk to voice Ron how do you forgot to say please okay Google he told me Ettore thanks for saying please play from dance please what a nice way to ask me however Google will not reprimand your child or you if you are rude to the assistant at least not yet you can also now use the Google assistant voice commands to create and update lists just say hey Google create a shopping lists then you say things like hey Google add milk to my shopping list or hey Google what's on my shopping list right now the system uses a built in provider for lists but eventually third party integration will be possible with Google keep todoist and any do the Google assistant will also allow you to broadcast replies Google introduced broadcasts as a way to communicate with your household through your Google home smart speakers eventually broadcasts expanded to other home products as well as smart speakers and very soon google allow you to easily reply to broadcasts the cool thing with broadcast replies is that you can use your keyboard on your phone if you like creating a makeshift text messaging system granted you might find it easier just to text someone but if you're working hard in the kitchen and your hands are full you can send a broadcast text using your voice which your recipients can read and reply to with their own text so what do you guys think I know that these are just small updates and improvements but Google wins and dominates by incremental steps let me know in the comments below or on Twitter you know what software starts do things it's not supposed to do who solves those problems it's the unsung heroes our developer teams in fact it's called incident management and our beloved sponsor today ops Jeanie is just for them op Jeanie helps us minimize downtime which is critical for our customer experience ops Jeanie empowers devs and ops teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents it helps notify all the right people through a smart combination of scheduling an escalation paths that take into account things like time zones and holidays it allows for deep flexibility and how and when and where alerts are deployed and supported by over 200 integrations with ops Jeanie your next incident doesn't stand a chance go to ops Jeanie comm and sign up to get a free company account and add up to five team members that oops Jeannie calm never miss a critical it alert again with ops Jeannie bonsoir