9 Best Articles in 2022
The New York Times
Siri, Alexa and Other Virtual Assistants Put to the Test
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2017 · Virtual assistants from tech behemoths including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google are graded on their abilities to actually be of assistance.
Reader View · Shared by 57, including Dominik Grolimund, Michelle Tandler ⚖️, Chris Messina, Merkstatt, Rodrigo Franco (Caffo)
Forbes
The Seven Patterns Of AI
Forbes
6 min read · From 2019 · From autonomous vehicles, predictive analytics applications, facial recognition, to chatbots, virtual assistants, cognitive automation, and fraud detection, the use cases for AI are many.
Reader View · Shared by 302, including Ronald Schmelzer, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Francesco Corea, Mike Kunkle, Angela Zutavern, Ronald van Loon, Kathleen Walch, Carla Gentry, Nige Willson, Thomas Power, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Tamara McCleary, Michael Fisher, Rick King, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Yves Mulkers, Bob E. Hayes, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, Terence Mills, Giuliano Liguori
CIO.com
Virtual assistants, chatbots poised for mass adoption in 2017
CIO.com
5 min read · From 2017 · Enterprises will continue to experiment with virtual assistants and chatbots in 2017 as they look to balance better customer service with operational efficiency.
Reader View · Shared by 25, including #bottish, Stephanie A Kowalski, Nir Eyal, Thomas Power, Richard MacManus
ZDNet
AI-powered virtual assistants and the future of work
ZDNet
9 min read · 2021-04-07 · This year marks an inflection point where digital natives move beyond the omnichannel experience and now are expected to be serviced by a growing number of digital concierges -- virtual assistants…
Reader View · Shared by 58, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Vala Afshar, Yves Mulkers, Shelly Kramer, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner
zirtual.com
Zirtual ? US-based Virtual Assistants for Busy People.
zirtual.com
1 min read · From 2016 · Zirtual - Virtual Assistants for Busy Startups
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Dylan Jones
blog.zirtual.com
How Startups Are Using Virtual Assistants
blog.zirtual.com
~16 min read · From 2016 · We're taking a closer look at how virtual assistants can become virtual team members, and move the needle for startups in real, actionable ways.
Reader View · Shared by 16, including Mark Kaigwa
The Wall Street Journal
Alexa, Siri, Cortana: The Problem With All-Female Digital Assistants
The Wall Street Journal
1 min read · From 2017 · The virtual assistants popping up in our lives sound overwhelmingly female. Here’s the problem with that.
Shared by 20, including Richard MacManus, Thomas Power, Brian Roemmele, kotobato
MIT Technology Review
Facebook claims its new chatbot beats Google’s as the best in the world
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · From 2020 · For all the progress that chatbots and virtual assistants have made, they’re still terrible conversationalists. Most are highly task-oriented: you make a demand and they comply. Some are highly…
Reader View · Shared by 54, including Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Oren Etzioni, Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Thomas Power
Forbes
The Metaverse Is Coming And It’s A Very Big Deal
Forbes
6 min read · 2020-07-06 · So what happens when the world becomes a billboard, robots have spatial reasoning and virtual assistants own the relationship with the consumer? The metaverse is coming and it's a very big deal.
Reader View · Shared by 53, including John Nosta, Ronald van Loon, John Hagel, Rick King
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VentureBeat
Why virtual assistants fail and how to fix them
VentureBeat
5 min read · Mar 27th · If you are thinking deploying virtual assistants for customer care, here's how to build a frictionless experience for users.
Reader View · Shared by 6, including Wilko S. Wolters 🇩🇪🇪🇺 See you at #HM22 ⚙️
talentculture.com
MyOutDesk Celebrates 15 years of Virtual Assistant Services
talentculture.com
2 min read · May 6th · MyOutDesk, LLC focuses on instantly scaling and growing businesses with virtual assistants and has served 8000 clients over 15 years. Over the past 15 years, MyOutDesk has become both a leader here in…
Reader View · Shared by 6, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy
HackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories
How Machine Generated Virtual Assistants can 10x Your Productivity in 2022
HackerNoon | Will NOT Insert LINKS in HN stories
~11 min read · Mar 29th · AI assistant technology is in many ways similar to a traditional chatbot but integrates next-generation machine learning, AR/VR and data science.
Reader View · Shared by 7, including Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸
VentureBeat
Kore.ai CEO says conversational AI is the foundation of the metaverse
VentureBeat
4 min read · May 13th · Kore.ai, a Florida-based company focused on providing enterprises with AI-first virtual assistants, wants to take conversational intelligence into the metaverse.
Reader View · Shared by 7, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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Tom Fishburne
marketing with virtual assistants
Tom Fishburne
5 min read · From 2017 · At CES this week, marketers were buzzing about the potential of virtual assistants. “Marketing is much more about providing a great experience or a product that makes a consumer’s life easier and o…
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Matt Navarra, hiten.eth, Mark Kaigwa
fourhourworkweek.com
Hacking Kickstarter: How to Raise $100,000 in 10 Days (Includes Successful Templates, E-mails, etc.)
fourhourworkweek.com
From 2015 · Mike Del Ponte co-founded Soma, which raised more than $100,000 on Kickstarter using virtual assistants and free apps. I first met Mike Del Ponte two years ago when he was running marketing at BranchOut, a startup I advise.
Reader View · Shared by 48, including Marc Eglon, Carlo Badini, Nettra Pan 🦇🔊
TNW
How gendered voice assistants are hurting as they help
TNW
3 min read · 2021-09-08 · Why do the companies developing, marketing, and selling virtual assistants tend to label their devices as women? And what does this mean for humans?
Reader View · Shared by 14, including MARKTECHPOST.COM, Merkstatt, luis antónio santos
Google AI
Introducing the Schema-Guided Dialogue Dataset for Conversational Assistants
Google AI
4 min read · From 2019 · Posted by Abhinav Rastogi, Software Engineer, and Pranav Khaitan, Engineering Lead, Google Research Today's virtual assistants help use...
Reader View · Shared by 14, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Carla Gentry
Search Engine Land
Study: 48% of consumers use voice assistants for general web search
Search Engine Land
3 min read · From 2019 · Despite concerns about accuracy and privacy, the Adobe survey presents a mostly positive outlook for voice and virtual assistants.
Reader View · Shared by 14, including Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, Daniel Jörg
WIRED
Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana
WIRED
6 min read · From 2016 · Facebook’s new virtual assistant, M, can make restaurant reservations, buy a birthday present for your spouse, or book a weekend getaway.
Shared by 72, including John Battelle, Chris Messina, Andrew Mutavdzija, Alexander Seifert, Gary Marcus 🇺🇦, Klaus Eck, Dominik Grolimund, Philippe Gauvin, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, David Bauer
Gizmodo
Thousands of People Are Watching Two Google Homes Argue With Each Other on Twitch
Gizmodo
1 min read · From 2017 · If you ever wanted to watch two virtual assistants argue with each other for hours on end, well, you’re in luck. Some maniac is live streaming two Google Homes arguing with each other, so of course thousands of people are watching it.
Shared by 33, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mike Ivars, Mike Butcher, Faizal Ardiansyah, Dayyan Smith, Kim Dik
Business Insider
Apple and Google have trained their virtual assistants to rebut 'All lives matter'
Business Insider
2 min read · 2020-06-08 · Tech companies are getting their voice assistants to help their messaging in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Reader View · Shared by 12, including C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt
Guardian Tech
Smart talking: are our devices threatening our privacy?
Guardian Tech
~14 min read · From 2019 · The long read: Millions of us now have virtual assistants, in our homes and our pockets. But are these products keeping us under surveillance?
Reader View · Shared by 32, including Merkstatt, Jane, Workshare, Gerd Leonhard
