What Your Virtual Assistant Can---and Can't---Do - The Wall Street Journal

Most mornings, the first two words out of my mouth are “Hey, Google.” Before I greet my wife or my dog, I turn toward the Google Home Hub on my nightstand and sleepily ask about the weather. I should know by now that, as close as I am to San Francisco, it’s always 62 and foggy. The Home Hub is a vessel for Google Assistant, the virtual helper Google wants to make the center of your computing life. Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri aim for the same lofty status in your life, as do—with significantly less success—Samsung’s Bixby and Microsoft’s Cortana. A recent PwC study found more than 60% of...