Microsoft purchases speech-recognition firm Nuance for $16 billion
Microsoft has purchased speech-recognition firm Nuance for the princely sum of $16 billion — basically,…
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Siri may have just confirmed Apple’s Spring Event this month
Rumours about Apple’s Spring event have been coming and going for some time now, with…
You can now ask Siri to start recording if you get pulled over by the cops
There’s not really all that much that we, as civillians, can do if a police…
“Hey Celia” – Huawei’s new digital assistant sounds awfully familiar
Thanks to some American hostility Huawei’s got to do its own thing at the moment,…
WhatsApp chatbots and voice assistants are quickly becoming the best source of news on COVID-19
The rise of the robots has turned out to be a little… friendlier than we…
Voice assistant technology is in danger of trying to be too human
More than 200m homes now have a smart speaker providing voice-controlled access to the internet,…
Artificial Intelligence has a gender bias problem – just ask Siri
Virtual Personal Assistants – such as Bixby, Alexa (Amazon), Siri (Apple) and Cortana (Microsoft) – are at the cutting edge of marketable artificial intelligence (AI). AI refers to using technological systems to perform tasks that people usually would.
Have you heard? The hazards of voice assistants
Voice assistants are recording everything said by their owners, some of which – including sex and medical records – are being heard by humans for quality control.
Just like HAL, your voice assistant isn’t working for you even if it feels like it is
Of all the fictional virtual assistants we know from pop culture, few stand up to the original and perhaps most famous: the HAL 9000 from the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
We should probably be thankful for that. After all, Alexa may shut your lights off, but she won’t turn against you and wreak havoc on your life. Or will she?