A new video by David Sams (the man who helped make the Oprah Winfrey Show, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and RollerGames famous) has come out showing that Google Home doesn’t have a clue who Jesus or God is, but knows exactly who Muhammad, Buddha, and other religious deities are.
Unfortunately the video won’t allow us to embed it (we do have a different video below), but you can watch it here.
Here’s more from CBN News:
Google Home can tell you about Buddha and Muhammad–but don’t bother asking about Jesus.
Users are posting videos showing Google products refusing to answer the question: “Who is Jesus?”
In a Facebook Live video uploaded by television producer and author David Sams, the smart audio assistant replies, “Sorry, I don’t know how to help with that yet.”
Sams next asks a question about God and receives the same answer.
When asked about Buddha and Muhammad, Google Home reads off the opening sentence from each of their Wikipedia pages.
“So, my question is, is there somebody at Google that has something against Jesus, something against God? Is this a corporate mandate of some sort?” Sams asked.
Amazon’s Alexa, a product similar to Google Home, knows the answer to “who is Jesus,” answering with the first sentence of the Wikipedia page on Jesus.
“Amazon is Jesus friendly, Google, not so much,” Sams concluded.
Sams encouraged anyone watching to contact Google and make sure that God and Jesus are included on all smart audio platforms.
Other Google Home users have also noticed that Jesus seems to be the only religious figure missing.
Courtesy of CBN News, we do have another video demonstrating the same issue with Google Home that the Sams video demonstrates (and a bit more succinctly):
Well isn’t that interesting. How can Google Home be programmed to go to Wikipedia for answers to the others, but isn’t able to go to wikipedia for answers on Jesus or God?
As Sams demonstrates in his video, Alexa doesn’t seem to have this problem. Nor does Siri on my iPhone 10.
So what’s up with this Google?