[larperdoodle]

My phone hasn't rung with a scam call since I enabled Google assistant call screening. Unknown callers have to explain why they're calling

[rmason]

Someone has figured out how to break it. I have it enabled yet I still receive one call a week from a Chinese speaking robo caller. Everyone I know gets these calls, some daily on their cell phones. Must be a very profitable product they're selling to afford making 600 calls to reach one person who understands Mandarin.

[VintageCool]

Those calls threaten their Mandarin-speaking target that US Immigration services are going to kick them out of the country. But the scammers (who might be dressed up as immigration lawyers) will take care of the problem in exchange for a bunch of money.

[Bloating]

Been using this for what seems like years. Initially Google Asst screening would throw some legit callers off base, but I haven't had a false-positive or scam calls for years. Google Asst also manages the call when put on-hold. Would be more fun if it could emulate Its Lenny

[esalman]

Isn't this feature only available in Pixel phones?

[jimmySixDOF]

Curious if this has worked where a valid caller with a valid reason made it through the screen and how you could catch false positives. Sounds like a great idea if it works so that's why I am asking.

[larperdoodle]

I think if they say anything, it rings and shows a transcript of what they said. At least, that's what happened the few times I've received a legitimate call from an unknown number (think calls like a contractor or a doctor's office).

[xur17]

At least so far there don't seem to be any false positives, but it does seem like something that could easily be botted.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

What's in it for Google?

[esalman]

They can sell more Pixel phones.

[fluidcruft]

It decreases user availability to non-Google advertising vectors. I would also assume that if Google can figure out who's trying to sell what to you, they can use that to better funnel ads your way on their own platform.

[plagiarist]

Knowing every inbound call made to that number and collecting ML training data.

[kramerger]

It's part of Googles strategy for adding human-level AI to Google Assistant and Android.

See the restaurant reservation demo from Google IO 2018.

[sudobash1]

People buying their phone?