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For travelers, chatbots and AI can't quite take you there
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 27.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence experts are very enthusiastic about the latest developments in AI for travel. Lay users however disagree, they find artificially intelligent chatbots as of now basically useless for real travellers. They still struggle to understand natural language and various bugs remain to be fixed.
Image Description | Screenshot of a chatbot conversation through Facebook including an image of a pizza with topping floating over it.
Image Tags | Facebook, text
Samsung's Bixby, its Siri rival, stammers at the start
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 6.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Samsung is currently testing their own version of an artificially intelligent assistant named Bixby. First reviews attest to its poor quality. Bixby can make phone calls to one's contacts but struggles with simple questions requiring a web search. Apparently, Bixby is further developed in Korean but lacks the big data necessary for it to work better in English.
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Mattel's Aristotle is like an Amazon Echo for kids
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 3.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, childhood, digitized education, privacy
Summary | A new baby monitor by Mattel is enhanced with various affordances we know from chatbots: the monitor starts a lullaby when the baby wakes up or plays with older children, teaching them colors by asking them to name what color light they see or learning a new language and so on. The monitor called Aristotle reports all these things to the parents by means of smartphone notifications and also gives them suggestions on where to stock up on diapers. The developers are emphasize their high standards for child privacy security.
Image Description | Video about CES 2017 conference in Las Vegas.
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