Google Turned an Austin House Into a Giant, Connected Fun Home to Promote Google Assistant

Including a lowrider car and connected lawn sprinklers

Artificial intelligence is definitely about to take over your living room—that is, if Google has anything to do about it.

For South by Southwest, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company souped up a house nearby downtown Austin with its AI and voice platform, Google Assistant, to show how everything in everyday life—from lights, blinds, appliances and even litter boxes—is connected and owned by Google.

In short, Google is trying to make people comfortable with the idea that the company not only powers our lives on Gmail, search, YouTube and more but also our homes.

The idea, much like Google’s recent

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