Google Allo to auto suggest personality based responses to chat!
Q. What is Google’s new messaging app called?- Published on 22 Sep 16a. Hallo
b. Hello
c. Ello
d. Allo
ANSWER: Allo
Google on 21
st Sept 2016 emerged in the mobile messaging market with new AI powered messaging app called Allo.
- The app messages out popular rivals like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
- App’s reliance on predictive software created a warning that it could open up user data to law enforcement.
- App includes Google Assistant, an AI program making live suggestions during chat mode
- Google held that users can opt for a safer incognito mode if they wanted
- App adjusts to user’s style as an emoji or written response and has tools for customising chat messages including changing emoji size and sticker choice.
- The Google Assistant is basically a much smarter, more chatty version of Google Now
- Google Assistant can even help settle arguments in group chats and add to your conversation.
- Alongside the end-to-end-encrypted Incognito Mode, the Allo team talked about bold new message retention practices, storing messages only transiently rather than indefinitely.
- But with the release of the app, Google is backing off on some of those features
- The version of Allo will now store all non-incognito messages by default
- This marks a clear change from Google’s earlier statements that the app would only store messages transiently and in non-identifiable form.
- The records will now persist until the user actively deletes them, giving Google default access to a full history of conversations in the app.
- Users can also avoid the logging by using Allo’s Incognito Mode, which is still fully end-to-end encrypted and unchanged from the initial announcement.
- Like Hangouts and Gmail, Allo messages will still be encrypted between the device and Google servers, and stored on servers using encryption that leaves the messages accessible to Google’s algorithms.
- According to Google, the change was made to improve Allo's smart reply feature, which generates suggested responses to a given conversation.
- Like most machine learning systems, the smart replies work better with more data.
- The decision will also have significant consequences for law enforcement access to Allo messages. By default, Allo messages will now be accessible to lawful requests, similar to message data in Gmail and Hangouts and locational data collected by Android
- Edward Snowden has warned people to stay away from Allo to prevent data from being tampered
- Google maintains that “we believe a warrant is required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" for access to private information in a Google account
- The messages might not be there if the user had previously deleted them, or if the conversations took place in Incognito Mode - but in most cases, they will be.
- That leaves Google with much less danger of the kind of legal showdown faced by Apple in the famous San Bernardino case.
