In recent years, a large number of tasks and processes have been automated. This is thanks to the development of algorithms and artificial intelligence . Google is one of the leading companies in this area. Those from Mountain View have one of the best voice assistants, the Google Assistant, and powerful algorithms in the vast majority of their apps.
And although leaving everything in the hands of artificial intelligence can be tempting and beneficial, the reality is that even these technologies are not perfect. The Play Store is one of the apps of the great G that has automated a large part of the verification processes that an application must comply with to be in the store. Without a human being to monitor these tasks, it can happen that apps with viruses, full of advertising or that some are censored just for being “free”.
Google Play Store has a problem with “free” apps
Artificial intelligences are not yet perfect (they probably never will be) and a developer has shown how Google Play has a major flaw . This free software developer has had problems with this popular app store to publish an application that he has designed.
The developer put the word “free” in the app’s name to indicate that the app is open source. But for doing so, Google has censored it. The reason? Well, the word “free” can have two meanings: free and free . The Google Play Store has censored the word free from the store to prevent developers from lying about their apps by saying that they are “free” when in fact they have many ads or micropayments.
This is how the Google Play Store can censor open source apps just because of this translation and context error. And, despite the fact that the developer tried to avoid the problem by personally translating the term “free” to “libre” in each language required by the store, the error persisted, showing that not only Google’s artificial intelligence fails, but also its translator . And you… What do you think of this news?
Source | AndroidPolice
