DailyMe#2019-05-10 Duplex 一年实践、当你的照片被用了训练算法、Oracle 的中国败局

新闻

Duplex 一年的落地实践，可能还是「唉」

来自 Verge 的报道，Google Duplex 在美国多地酒店落地实践的结果：

 One year later, Duplex is still limited and, at least for now, has minimal impact on service workers aside from occasionally freaking them out, but there is perhaps an unintended byproduct of AI replacing humans: politeness. 

 “It’s easier talking to [Duplex],” Thanaraksalakul says. English is her second language and working at the restaurant is where she gets to truly practice it. So when she repeats questions or misunderstands someone on the phone, the customer is not always patient with her. That misunderstanding can sometimes lead to an unpleasant experience when the customer shows up in person, or it can even result in a poor review online that talking to the AI can be an accidental reprieve. 

 Kindness is not always an expected interaction at work in the service industry, and it’s one thing Myriah also appreciates about the call from Google. “It was kind of creepy,” she says, “but it was very polite.” 

一家照片存储应用的「全新商业模式」

来自 NBC 的报道，这家名叫 Ever 的图片存储应用，暗地里将用户上传的照片作为训练脸部识别算法的数据，将其卖过其他公司：

 Everything about Ever’s branding is warm and fuzzy, about sharing your “best moments” while freeing up space on your phone. 

 What isn’t obvious on Ever’s website or app — except for a brief reference that was added to the privacy policy after NBC News reached out to the company in April — is that the photos people share are used to train the company’s facial recognition system, and that Ever then offers to sell that technology to private companies, law enforcement and the military. 

 In other words, what began in 2013 as another cloud storage app has pivoted toward a far more lucrative business known as Ever AI — without telling the app’s millions of users. 

Google 将语音处理下沉到终端设备后，智能语音助手会进入新的阶段吗？

来自 Techrepublic 的一篇分析，将智能能力下沉到终端将是一个重要趋势，接下来就看 Google 如何将这种能力赋能给更多开发者：

观点

Oracle 是如何失去中国市场的？

来自 钛媒体 的一篇文章，以 Oracle 中国裁员为契机，盘点了这家数据库巨头在中国的衰退历史，何止是中国市场，Oracle 现在所面临的危机是产品层面的，当 以 AWS 为代表的云服务开始推行云数据库时，Oracle 的荣耀时代已然结束：

传统软件时代的巨头Oracle在中国市场的变局可能是技术和时代变革里所有巨头终将遭遇的共同宿命，“让你强大的，终将埋葬你。”

谁会拯救 Oracle？至少，这个人不会是 Laryy Ellison。

新产品

Moleskine 与 Dropbox 推出全新的智能笔记本

来自 Verge 的报道，Moleskine 的确会做生意呀：

 The Dropbox Smart Notebook is a riff on Moleskine’s existing smart notebooks, which do the same thing, but with Creative Cloud or Evernote. The smart notebook pages are lined with small dots to help with text recognition, and there are squares on the corners to help the camera line up journal content. It doesn’t add much beyond what you’d get by taking a photo of a regular journal with your phone camera, but it saves you an extra step. If you’re the type of person to meticulously back up your journal pages, it might be nice to have as a quick shortcut.