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The Smartest Voice Assistants

Published on Dec 31, 2014

The Smartest Voice Assistants (until 2015)

Which one is the Best?
Amazon Echo Voice Assistant
Google Now (for Android, Android Wear, Google Glass, Chrome Browser, iPhone, iPad, Android TV, Android Auto)(ok google)
JIBO (The World's First Family Robot)
Siri by Apple (for iPhones and iPads)
Cortana by Microsoft (for Windows Phone devices)
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BizMisconnect: Intelligent virtual assistants save time (and the day) for busy consumers

Published on Jul 29, 2015

In today’s always-on digital world, consumers have little patience with businesses that waste their time. Missed opportunities to provide easy ordering or streamlined customer service have significant ramifications, impacting revenue, loyalty and operating expense. Consumers want help from a company that can anticipate their needs and advise and direct them. Intelligent virtual assistants can help companies by creating effortless, intuitive experiences on web and mobile.
In today’s always-on digital world, consumers have little patience with businesses that waste their time. Missed opportunities to provide easy ordering or streamlined customer service have significant ramifications, impacting revenue, loyalty and operating expense. Intelligent virtual assistants can help companies prevent this common BizMisconnect by creating effortless, intuitive experiences on web and mobile. Discover how one virtual assistant is saving families one pizza at a time.

by Lynn Ridenour
July 29, 2015
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Bots - Battling Boredom in Smart Homes
December 24, 2015

What are we left to do when technology just happens to do everything for us? Bots is system for home robot assistants that collaborate to make life alone a little more interesting. The system consists of specialist agents (the bots), a main control unit (the brain) and room speakers (the senses). Bots are modular artificial intelligences that focus on a single task. (e.g. online shopping, spying on the neighbours whereabouts or organising surprise presents).
The group dynamics that arises from the bots placed in the main unit changes the relationship we have with might have with technology to something alike having a group of pets: never entirely predictable but always succeeding or failing with the best of intents.
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Bots - Making of
December 24, 2015
 

Will Siri or Alexa become your scary, robotic bartender?

Published on Jun 8, 2016

Voice assistants are coming to more and more devices, and are learning even more about you. We talk about whether that's awesome or scary in the first broadcast of CNET's Open Tab.
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Teaching machines to talk

Published on Jun 15, 2016

Teaching an A.I. to hold colloquial conversations shouldn't be that hard... right? Wrong. From Microsoft's epic Tay chatbot debacle to Google's romance-novel-raised A.I., we look at some of the recent successes (and failures) in getting machines to talk.
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Google Assistant vs Siri vs Cortana vs Alexa

Published on Nov 2, 2016

Google's new voice assistant, Google Assistant, has received quite the warm reception but how does it compare to your former pocket mates, Siri and Cortana.

Not only that, with Amazon Echo finally hitting shelves in the UK it made sense to see how well Amazon's Alexa could chat and answer our questions too.
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