Gartner estimates there will be 6.4 billion IoT devices in use by the end of this year, a 30% increase from 2015.
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ArticlesCathy Pearl is the Director of User Experience at Sense.ly, the author of the new book from O’Reilly, Designing Voice User Interfaces, and a scheduled speaker at the upcoming Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco in late January 2017.
Last January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would build his own AI assistant using Facebook tools to run his home. And this month, it became a reality.
Today the Huffington Post reposted an answer to a question that appeared on Quora asking, “How can Amazon Echo win over Google in the long run given Google’s AI superiority?”
In an online statement Monday, Uber announced the creation of Uber AI Labs following its recent acquisition of AI research startup Geometric Intelligence.
Microsoft is rumored to be working on a new HomeHub feature for Windows 10 that would turn your PC into a smart home speaker.
Facebook is increasingly using artificial intelligence to find flag and remove offensive content.
Amazon launched a new AI Platform for third-party developers today at its annual re:Invent developer event in Las Vegas.