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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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. …
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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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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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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Figlab, which is short for Future Interfaces Group, is a unit within the Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interface Institute that has been responsible for some incredible technological breakthroughs. Concepts like your phone being able to tell what angle your finger is touching at and where it’s touching, tech that tells your smartwatch what object you’re …
Viv might be the creation of those that had also put together Siri though there already is a huge generation gap between the two siblings in the realm of personal digital assistants. That is exactly what Dag Kittlaus stressed on when he went to the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC to demo what the …
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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 …
The internet is great because it makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family, but it can also be a scary place, especially for kids. They can surf to smutty websites or end up chatting with strangers. Not good. The people behind a new product, Ily, think they have a way for …
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