The one product that best epitomizes the shift in making technology bend to serve us humans, rather than the humans literally mutilating themselves (ruining their posture, their vision, their social face-to-face connectivity with fellow humans) just so that they can extract value from technology, is the Amazon Echo.
At this week’s Mobile World Congress, Sony demoed two new products in the Xperia line that rely on voice control and usher in a new phase of devices for intelligent assistance.
Waterfield Technologies, a U.S.-based system integrator specializing in customer care technology solutions, has acquired the WebSphere Voice Response (WVR) product line and operations to be delivered through newly formed subsidiary, Blueworx.
The IAuth (Intelligent Authentication) train has clearly left the station and banks are playing a major role.
Opus Research got a glimpse into a future without the drudgery of setting up meetings during a conversation with x.ai’s CEO and founder Dennis Mortensen.
In 2015, Opus Research issued the defining document for Enterprise Intelligent Assistants. Now Opus observes that Intelligent Assistants will require simple, secure, seamless ways to authenticate individuals so that they can provide highly personalized and trusted services.
By enabling brands to have personal, real-time conversations with consumers on messaging platforms — such as chatting with Disney’s Miss Piggy via Facebook Messenger — companies such as Imperson and MSG.ai are using intelligent assistants to reach a much wider audience.
Worldcore, an online payment service provider based in Prague with global ambitions, announced this week plans to use voice biometrics as a secure means of customer authentication.
On January 28, GV (Google Ventures) led a group of VCs that already included Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) and Citi Ventures and others in a $75 Series C round of financing.
Interactions LLC has announced a set of innovations that represent the integration of the AT&T Watson platform, now branded as Curo™.