THE VOICE ASSISTANT LANDSCAPE REPORT: How artificially intelligent voice assistants are changing the relationship between consumers and computers

BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. Advancements in a bevy of industries are helping intelligent digital voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa become more sophisticated and useful pieces of technology.  Advances in artificial intelligence […]

THE VOICE ASSISTANT LANDSCAPE REPORT: How artificially intelligent voice assistants are changing the relationship between consumers and computers

BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. Advancements in a bevy of industries are helping intelligent digital voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa become more sophisticated and useful pieces of technology.  Advances in artificial intelligence […]

Iran vows ‘intelligent & proportional’ retaliation against US sanctions

Iran has vowed to pursue smart and carefully considered countermeasures against the US after Donald Trump signed a bill which authorizes new sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Tehran believes the latest punitive measures violates the terms of P5+1+EU nuclear deal with Iran. On Wednesday, President Trump signed ‘Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act’ into a […]

Smartbe Intelligent Stroller | Autoblog Minute

Smartbe is a stroller that moves itself thorugh the use of an electronic motor. This stroller offers a climatized carry cot, a feeding bottle warmer, an automatic rocking chair, automatic power folding, music, an electronic locker, an anti-theft sensor, a microphone and webcams, among other breakthrough features Let’s block ads! (Why?) Autoblog

How Beyond Verbal hopes to make Siri and Alexa emotionally intelligent

An Israeli startup specializing in analyzing human emotion and traits based on voice is opening up its technology to help artificial intelligence (AI) assistants — such as Siri and Alexa — understand people’s moods by listening to how they sound when they speak. Founded out of Tel Aviv in 2012, Beyond Verbal has been building on […]

10 principles of intelligent agent design

GUEST: We’re at the beginning of the development of a new generation of better and more sophisticated intelligent agents. Intelligent agents will become ubiquitous in personal life and business, so they are an important area of opportunity and interest for innovators. As entrepreneurs, designers, product managers, developers, and investors, we should step back and think […]

How automotive assistants will become intelligent co-pilots

GUEST: Assistants here, assistants there, assistants everywhere. The tech world seems agog about building everyone’s new virtual best friend, ready to tirelessly serve our practical needs and whimsical desires anytime and anywhere. After decades of science fiction visions about a future when intelligent machines with pleasant, reassuring voices effortlessly answer their master’s most pressing questions […]

The intelligent intersection could banish traffic lights forever

Ali Reza Fayazi Whenever we hear a speech from a politician, policy maker, or auto executive extolling the virtues of the self-driving car, it’s usually in reference to safety. Little wonder, considering that roughly 40,000 people died on US roads in 2016 (which is a marked uptick from the year before). Humans are not universally […]

Women are ‘smaller, weaker, less intelligent’ & should be paid less – Polish MEP

Since women are “smaller, weaker and less intelligent” than men they rightfully should earn less, a controversial Polish member of the European Parliament has claimed during a debate on gender pay gap, sparking an immediate and fierce backlash. To support his argument, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a right-wing politician who represents the remote region of Silesia, claimed […]