Samsung's Bixby voice agent brings the fight to Alexa and Siri
Samsung's late entrant to the voice agent game has a few tricks up its sleeve for determining what you want and integrating into the smartphone experience.
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Dawn of the smart surveillance cameras
The rise of the machines may start with the eyes of the machines. But first, businesses and governments will be able to tap into surveillance cameras that can identify and remember bad actors.
With Cortana's concession speech, Microsoft abandons another platform opportunity
Microsoft fought a late start in trying to establish Cortana as a premiere voice agent leveraging the company's AI research. But the lack of a Trojan horse for distribution made it the company's latest casualty of a hedge for a client future beyond Windows.
Eva uses AI to highlight key information in meetings
A new agent provides a set of tools for capturing important details and action items from conference calls using a combination of voice command responses and background transcribing. Its first target: customer feedback interviews.
Facebook needs more real solutions to fake news
After banning dedicated fake news sites, Facebook must still explore alternatives.
AIs will battle to loosen Samsung's grip on Android
While Huawei, Lenovo, Xiaomi and others attack the middle market, Google and Andy Rubin's startup seek to shake Samsung leadership via advanced agent technology
AI could reduce the tech in your smartphone
While the new frontier of intelligent object detection can create amazing eye candy, it is also tackling the decades-old problem of simply being heard in a crowd.
Google Assistant is starved for conversation
To grow as a conversant AI, Google's Assistant needs to have lots of conversations. But unlike Google's ubiquitous search, the Assistant is available only in three little-used contexts for now.
In Google we trust: But why?
In contrast to Facebook, which has seen its trustworthiness plummet, Google has won trust by delivering sherpa-like navigation through digital and physical domains. That's going to pay huge dividends in an AI-driven world.
TruSense aging-in-place system passively monitors independent seniors
An array of sensors used to detect presence paired with a way to call for help through an Echo device provide a less obtrusive alternative to bulky alert wearables