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Within seconds, my voice departed my home in Haifa, traveled through submarine fiber networks to Europe
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The techie nerd in me gets excited every time this happens.
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- Recently, the reporter caught themselves saying: “OK, Google, turn on the shower vent
Summary
Recently, the reporter caught themselves saying: “OK, Google, turn on the shower vent.” Within seconds, their voice left their home in Haifa, traveled through submarine fiber networks to Europe, was processed in a Google data center, possibly routed through additional vendor clouds across continents, and then made its way back, only to activate a switch sitting 10 inches from their face. To be clear, the reporter is much in favor of automation and agentic AI. You may think this isn’t an issue: What does it matter if they bring the tech revolution to solve ridiculous tasks, because they can? Operational risk: more points of failure, less control: That simple command depends on multiple systems working in sync, your device, your network, Google’s infrastructure and potentially a third-party vendor cloud.