Google knowing a bit about me & my voice is little scary, but hearing my 8yr old daughter ask about the cosmos & other scientific questions on Google, is to me, priceless.
I've seen little kids ask me and other adults about what a cordless phone was (even "why does it have so many buttons?" from the young owner of an iPhone who failed to grasp the idea of a screen without touch input), why they can't interact with the cover of a magazine by poking at it, and why we can't just take pictures of bacteria with a smartphone camera instead of looking through a microscope. I'm curious what a child would ask Google and what the answers would be given the vastly different expectations each generation has of every day technology.
I have really bad experiences with voice recognition going all the way back to early Dragon Naturally Speaking versions and I can't imagine asking google voice search a question so instead I always just text search for relevant topics or go on the science exhanges/forums.
> how does an earthquake happen > when was the first Christchurch earthquake > what are the well known constellations > how big is cat VY Canis Majoris > what is the biggest star > how old is Pluto > what is Fusion > how was the sun formed
This is from one session.
I do have access to WolframAlpha but haven't yet taught her how to use it - maybe it's a bit early for her, I'll give it a go.
keep up the good work