Here’s why Bixby needs to be great, and why you should hope it is too

Bixby has a lot of competition, but with its scale, it needs to be a top notch experience. Anything less could be a disaster.

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Samsung acquires Viv, the ‘next-gen AI platform’ hailing from Siri’s creators

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Samsung might be trying to beat arch-rival Apple quite literally at its own game in the increasingly competitive artificial intelligence arena, also going after Google, Amazon or Microsoft with external help.Forget S Voice, as the virtual personal assistant likely to be baked into next-generation Galaxy phones, Gear wearables and various home appliances is called Viv, its research and development having been led by “AI visionaries” Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham since 2012.Don’t feel bad if …

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How Does Hound Stack Up To The Rest? (Video)

Hound is SoundHound’s new voice assistant to compete with the likes of Google Now, Siri, and Cortana. It, like the others, can launch apps, run search queries, identify songs, and more, but one thing that’s caught wide attention for this service is its ability to process complex, multi-part queries in a manner similar to Wolfram Alpha. Questions like “What is the population and capital for Japan and China?” work without a hitch, and very quickly at that.But rarely will most people ask a voice assistant such complicated questions. Instead, most people use these ...

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