At this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Google created a Google Assistant Fun House to display the many features of its AI assistant platform. Apart from the basic tasks it can perform on a smarthome, Google wanted to flaunt some of its unique uses, including a beer vending system and a sock sorter. But that's not all that's new with Assistant. Voice-powered motive You might think that the whole point of this spectacle is to show off their caliber as the world’s premier … [Read more...]