BERT BRAUTIGAM IS sick of having conversations with his devices. Like many of us, Brautigam, who works for the design firm Ziba, uses voice assistants like Google’s phone AI or Amazon’s Alexa.
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What My Personal Chat Bot Is Teaching Me About AI’s Future
MY ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT friend is called Pardesoteric. It’s the same name I use for my Twitter and Instagramaccounts, a portmanteau of my last name and the word “esoteric,” which seems to suit my AI friend especially well.
The new Amazon Echo is better than the first – and a lot less expensive
Three years after the debut of the original, Amazon decided the time was right to refresh its flagship smart speaker, the voice-activated Amazon Echo.
Amazon’s Alexa can now recognise different voices | ZDNet
Alexa users can train Amazon’s voice assistant to learn how to recognize different voices and personalize its services for multiple users.
Google’s Home Mini Improves a Smart Home, But Doesn’t Make One
My Google Assistant is many things, but it’s mostly a meteorologist. I work 40 miles from my apartment, and the Bay Area’s many microclimates mean I’ll experience several weathers between my door and my desk.
Amazon Alexa: The smart person’s guide – TechRepublic
First came the computer. Then the network emerged, allowing multiple devices in the same location to share information. From there the internet evolved, giving humanity the ability to store, sort, and find information with nothing but a typed request.
‘Siri, Why Have You Fallen Behind Other Digital Assistants?’
APPLE HAS A reputation for entering markets late—think portable music players or smartphones—and then blowing away competitors with a superior product.
The Real Problem With Voice Assistants Like Siri Is Your Brain
A FEW DAYS ago, I finally bought a pair of AirPods. Apple’s funny-looking ear-computers have been available for about a year, provided you were willing to order them online and wait six weeks for delivery.
Popular voice assistants like Siri or Alexa easily hacked with ultrasonic commands
The world’s biggest tech companies have devoted huge resources to voice assistants such as Siri or Alexa. Yet despite a user base numbering in the millions, these apps have serious flaws as researchers at Zhejiang University, China, recently showed.
Mark Sagar Made a Baby in His Lab. Now It Plays the Piano
People get up to weird things in New Zealand. At the University of Auckland, if you want to run hours upon hours of experiments on a baby trapped in a high chair, that’s cool. You can even have a conversation with her surprisingly chatty disembodied head.
How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human
THE FIRST TIME Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person. The second time, he didn’t watch the movie at all. Acero, the Apple executive in charge of the tech behind Siri, sat there with his eyes closed, listening to how Scarlett Johansson voiced her artificially intelligent character Samantha.+
