Apple’s Siri creators debut Viv, a AI driven personal assistant cum butler Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus took the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference here to demonstrate his latest creation. In a world-first, the public got the first look of Viv, the artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant that aims to lap rivals with its …
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Lexi and Roger can turn your phone into an Amazon Echo, but with limitations. As someone who recently bought—and was quickly enchanted by—Amazon’s Echo connected speaker, I’ve been thinking of ways to get its Alexa virtual assistant into more rooms of the house. Of course, I could just buy another Echo speaker, or some other …
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One of the men who created Siri says he’s created a voice controlled artificial intelligence tool that’s smarter and more adaptive than the likes of Siri, Google Now and Amazon Alexa. According to Dag Kittlaus, the new virtual assistant system named Viv has several key advantages: It’s better able to parse complex natural language requests. …
Apple has surely turned up its game. Popular star, Neil Patrick Harris has been spotted in Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) latest iPhone 6s TV promo. Marketing for Siri, the latest Apple advertisement shows Neil Patrick use his virtual assistant in hands-free mode. The TV spot adds to a growing list of TV commercials launched by the …
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Amazon’s Alexa service has slowly been getting more and more new features since its launch last year. It can now control your thermostat, your lighting, and even summon your Tesla for you. And now it will help you book your travel, thanks to KAYAK. If you’re not familiar with KAYAK, it’s one of the biggest …
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Viv isn’t competing with the current lineup of virtual digital assistants. The self-coding software is instead striving to be the “intelligent interface to everything.” Since Apple’s introduction of Siri on Oct. 4, 2011, a handful of tech companies—Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook—have introduced competing artificial intelligence-guided digital assistants. But who better to outdo Siri than Siri’s …
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The travel industry is talking a lot about voice-powered search these days, thanks in part to Alexa — a personal assistant developed by Amazon that uses artificial intelligence to understand simple voice commands. Skyscanner was the first travel search company to tap the power of Alexa, enabling consumers to search for flights by speaking. Today …
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Sometimes you just need passion, not loads of market research, to embark on your company’s next project. Kosmas Karadimitriou That was the case for Kayak, the Stamford, Conn.-based travel search engine owned by The Priceline Group, when the company’s head of data science in Boston expressed his love for the Amazon Echo in a LinkedIn post …
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Now you can use voice prompts like: “Alexa, ask Kayak to track a flight” or “Alexa, ask Kayak where I can go for $300?” Amazon’s Alexa just learned a new skill: how to plan and track a trip. The cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon’s Echo speaker now works with travel site Kayak, letting you access …