When Jibo, Inc., rolls out its “family robot” later this year its ability to understand and respond to spoken words will be based on embedded software from Sensory.
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Assistance Chronicles: Personal Virtual Assistants Meet Interactive Specialists
Personal Virtual Assistants and Intelligent Specialists will co-exist, interact and evolve jointly and separately.
Facebook Buys An “Open” Platform for Voice-based Intelligent Assistance
Facebook has acquired wit.ai, a small venture whose “open” approach to natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning has attracted over 6,000 developers to its fold.
Meet IPSoft’s New Intelligent Assistant Robot: Amelia
IPsoft’s new intelligent assistant, Amelia, has the ability to execute business processes that go deeper than just handling customer service calls when combined with “Robotic Process Automation” (RPA).
Reflections on SpeechTek: Natural User Interfaces Go Far Beyond Speech Processing
To kick off SpeechTek 2014 Conference, I participated in an exceptionally interesting panel organized by Jibo’s Roberto Pieraccini to discuss “New Technologies Coming Soon.” In retrospect, term “coming soon” was a misnomer. Two of the panelists – Bernard Brafman of… Read More ›
Who Needs the Talking Refrigerator When You Have Amazon Dash?
Amazon Dash is best thought of as a part of a generation of Intelligent Assistants that we, members of humankind, should start getting ready to master.
Debut Conference To Tackle Opportunities for “Siri-like” Intelligent Assistants for Mobile and Enterprise Activities
Intelligent Assistants Conference 2014 will showcase real-world efforts to improve mobile customer experience, self-service efficiency, Web-based chat effectiveness and conversational commerce
Microsoft’s Silent, But Cortana is Getting Ready to Replace Bing on Windows Phones
without confirmation from Microsoft), the fictional artificially intelligent being that first appeared in the xBox videogame “HALO: Combat Evolved” and its sequels, is being recruited to be the “Siri-equivalent” for Windows-based phones and tablets.
The Siri Factor, Three Days On
While most people are marveling at how well Siri recognizes and fulfills on many of their intentions, the inevitable criticism has begun.
Siri (beta) Assumes Primacy on iPhone 4S Home Button
Apple may have disappointed the world by not introducing an iPhone5, but the one area where the new device does not fall short is that it marks the re-emergence of Siri, which Apple acquired in April of 2010.