Lenie nestoso

02/09/2022

31/10/2019

Here's the really interesting part about this: By almost every measure, Google Assistant is consistently ahead of every other virtual assistant when it comes to its success rate — the percentage of the time it manages to understand what you're asking and then provide an appropriate action or response.

31/10/2019

After all, having things work well in an on-stage demo is one thing. Having them work consistently well in the real world — and actually be useful, valuable tools we tech-loving land rovers can rely on — is something else entire

30/10/2019

Wired also dug up some research from e-commerce software firm Elastic Path that says only 6 percent of people have used a virtual assistant device — a Google Home, Smart Display, Amazon Echo, or whatever — to buy something over the past six months. The main reason folks gave for avoiding the process? You guessed it: "the high rate of miscommunication or errors."

30/10/2019

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) on Monday said its researchers have developed algorithms that enable novel applications for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning to solve engineering problems.

29/10/2019

After all, having things work well in an on-stage demo is one thing. Having them work consistently well in the real world — and actually be useful, valuable tools we tech-loving land rovers can rely on — is something else entir

29/10/2019

Users can choose not to sign in and share this data with Cortana, and adjust permissions to prevent certain data from being collected, though these actions limit the virtual assistant's usefulness.

29/10/2019

Pick up your Android phone or Chromebook, and there's Google Assistant waiting for a chat. Power up any Amazon-made gadget, and Alexa's standing by with an open ear. Apple's got Siri, poor Samsung's got Bixby, and even random companies like Bank of America are getting in on the action with their own woefully unnecessary A.I. personalities (sorry, "Eric

28/10/2019

The IVA market is expected to grow aggressively over the forecast period, owing to the rising adoption across several applications including BFSI, healthcare, and automotive, among others. Development in speech and voice recognition technologies such as Apple's Siri and Amazons' Alexa, has been the driving factor behind the proliferating growth of the intelligent virtual assistant market. Organizations across all vertical segments have been benefiting from virtual assistant technology. Large enterprises have widely adopted the technology and are becoming the primary point of engagement with an enterprise.

28/10/2019

Virtual assistant providers also maintain privacy policies, which define how each company uses and shares personal information. In most cases, companies do not share customer-identifiable information without a customer's consent.

27/10/2019

Virtual assistants can also be contrasted with another type of consumer-facing AI programming, called smart advisers. Smart adviser programs are subject-oriented, while virtual assistants are task-oriented.

25/10/2019

To successfully introduce a new version of VA in the form of a VHA, according to James Vlahos, author of the book Talk to me, “The big tech companies are forced right now to drive right down the centre of the highway in terms of personality”.