The recurring theme at this year’s CES will be that voice control and natural language are the preferred way for consumers to take charge of electronics.
Intelligent Assistance
Amazon Lex Democratizes Alexa-powered Skills
With the introduction of Lex, Amazon has leapfrogged other metabot providers, like Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant.
Conversational Games Come to Facebook Messenger
Facebook has announced the launch of games that can be played right from within their Messenger instant messaging platform.
Making Voice Great Again: A Ubiquitous User Interface for AI
Voice is ubiquitous and is the sole modality to take command of electronic devices in the home, and command centers in cars, kiosks, offices and public places.
For Salesforce, Intelligent Assistance Has a Name: Einstein
With Einstein, Salesforce has taken huge steps to infuse its core, cloud-based CRM resources with an omnipresent Intelligent Assistant (IA).
#IAConf Wrap-up: Bridging Chasms in IA Ecosystem
The IA Conferences exposed a set of dichotomies, both for core technologies and their capabilities, when deployed for real-world use cases.
Pre-Conference Reading: The Optichannel Strategy for Intelligent Assistance
Intelligent Assistance is about to put an end to the long-standing discussions surrounding the relative merits of “multichannel” versus “omnichannel” marketing and digital commerce strategies.
Prize-Winning Alexa Skill from USAA Reveals Meaning of Intelligent Assistance
A simple statement to a conversational interface can initiate a relatively complex set of computational and analytic activities resulting in a prescriptive call to action that culminates in a transaction.
Intelligent Assistance For The Hospitality Industry
The hospitality space is a target for disruption, especially the hotel industry. Marriott, Radisson and Booking.com are fighting back with Intelligent Assistance.
Joie de Viv: “The Global Brain” Emerges from Stealth Mode
Viv.ai has been one of the Silicon Valley’s best kept open secrets since August 2014, when Wired magazine published an article calling it a “radical AI that does anything you ask.”