Google wants to do more than just organize the world's information. He wants to infiltrate our lives and replace many of our daily tasks in a robotic way. This is clearly the goal this week.

Forget the bright new Pixel phones, tablets and speakers announced this week by Google at a sensational event in New York. Or a new talking video speaker that echoes Echo Show from Amazon and that focuses on the visual elements of Google, such as mapping, the agenda and, of course, all this YouTube content .

It's great. But the things that interest us – you and me – that we would actually use, summarize Google's attempts to clone us.

Consider some of the advances in artificial intelligence that the company has touted this week.

Call the screen on Google Pixel 3 (Photo: Google)

Google will soon be able to:

• make calls for you

• Filter your calls and transcribe them on your behalf, in real time.

• Take pictures, without having to worry about taking the picture, when he feels that your subject is smiling or pouting. (All of these only if you have a Google Pixel phone.)

Let's start with Duplex, the controversial new AI tool that allows Google to make calls in restaurants and hair salons, to make an appointment without you having to do it.

For the first time this spring, Google announced this week that Duplex will begin testing this month for Pixel owners in four cities – San Francisco, New York, Atlanta and Phoenix.

Think about it for a minute: you say, "Hey, Google, call the Chart House and get me a table for two at seven o'clock," and then your phone does the work for you. The robot from the Google Assistant app calls the restaurant. background. You will soon receive a notification confirming the reservation. (Or be informed that 7 pm was busy and that you were pushed until 8 pm)

There are two minutes saved.

Cool for you, but weird for the restaurant staff who already receives too much strange calls. Now a computer is calling and sounds terribly realistic.

In a note addressed to businesses this week, Google said that they would always be able to say that they were talking to a robot and that there would be a denial option for denying calls.

Speaking of calls we do not want, here is the call screen of Google.

This is intended to scare away telemarketers. Instead of hanging on to them immediately, like many of us, Google has another idea: let the Google assistant take care of these rodents.

Get a caller you do not recognize?

Click on a button and let Google determine which one is on the other line and if you really want to take the call. It is a variant of the old filtering of calls picked up by answering machines that we used to do.

Here is what the caller will see: "Hello, the person you are calling uses a filtering service from Google and will receive a copy of this conversation. Go ahead and say your name and why you are calling. "

In real time you will get a transcript and a chance to decide whether you want to intervene or not. I love it and hope that Apple feels inspired to steal it for iPhone. But let's be realistic: this will not solve the problem.

Telemarketers hang up immediately and the real culprit is the automated call to which Call Screen can not do anything.

But it's a start in the right direction.

So if you keep the score, Google has already introduced "Smart Compose", which automatically fills your emails in Gmail with suggested words, so that Google fulfills the functions of your brain and simplifies your task. He will make calls and filter them for you. Now, he automatically tells me every day how long my ride will last, based on my driving history (thanks, Google), and automatically launches me endless videos that he knows I like on YouTube without my having to ask. (And that's usually right with my tastes.)

But we still have to do the basics with Google. In searches, we type or say queries aloud. No robot has yet arrived to replace our curiosity. But give Google a few years, right?

In other new techniques this week

Waze, the navigation app used daily by more than 100 million people to find the best routes in town, has opened its carpool service to the 50 states of the United States, after testing in California and Israel. Through the Waze Carpool app, drivers can search for ski lifts at Wazers in the area or offer their driving services in the Waze main application. The intention is not to get rich, but to get cars out of the way and help you, the driver, get to work faster by asking another passenger to qualify for the carpool lane. Trips are $ 2 lump sum until October and will then be 54 cents per mile.

Microsoft bringing the Xbox game to phones. Microsoft will soon test a new streaming technology to allow users to play Xbox games wherever they are, including on phones and tablets.

Warner Media, the new name of AT & T's entertainment division, which includes the Warner Bros. studio, Turner TV networks (CNN, TBS, Cartoon and more) and HBO, announced the launch of a new service Streaming in 2019.

Google has announced that it will close Google's little-used social network this week, in response to a major security issue. Despite the large number of people with Google IDs for Gmail, YouTube and other Google services, Goggle could not connect to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to create a popular and robust social network.

We are back from a week in Japan, where we had the pleasure of visiting the eight – story Yodibashi – Akiba High Intensity Electronics Store. Check out our report on the useful, crazy and really weird gadgets we saw during our visit. And here is our video, shot in ultra high speed with the new camera GoPro Hero7 Black, during our visit to Yodibashi.

This week's Talking Tech podcasts

• Tokyo Tour: Innovations and curiosities

• The war of the speakers

• In the new Google telemarketing killer

• Waze's ambitious plans to carpool a mass market.

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