9 Best Articles in 2021
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.
zirtual.com
Zirtual ? US-based Virtual Assistants for Busy People.
zirtual.com
1 min read · From 2016 · Zirtual - Virtual Assistants for Busy Startups
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.
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.
Forbes
The Seven Patterns Of AI
Forbes
6 min read · 2019-09-17 · From autonomous vehicles, predictive analytics applications, facial recognition, to chatbots, virtual assistants, cognitive automation, and fraud detection, the use cases for AI are many.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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TechCrunch
Starbucks unveils a virtual assistant that takes your order via…
TechCrunch
6 min read · From 2017 · Starbucks is embracing the trend towards voice-based computing with the launch of a new feature in its mobile app called My Starbucks barista, which allows customers to order and pay for their food…
ZDNet
AI-powered virtual assistants and the future of work
ZDNet
9 min read · Apr 7th · 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…
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.
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.
MIT Technology Review
Facebook claims its new chatbot beats Google’s as the best in the world
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · 2020-04-29 · 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…
The Verge
Facebook’s head of AI wants us to stop using the Terminator to talk about AI
The Verge
8 min read · From 2017 · Yann LeCun chats about super-intelligent AI and the future of virtual assistants
Google AI
Introducing the Schema-Guided Dialogue Dataset for Conversational Assistants
Google AI
4 min read · 2019-10-29 · Posted by Abhinav Rastogi, Software Engineer, and Pranav Khaitan, Engineering Lead, Google Research Today's virtual assistants help use...
MIT Technology Review
These chatbots have realistic faces and can read your expressions
MIT Technology Review
5 min read · From 2017 · A startup gives chatbots and virtual assistants realistic facial expressions and the ability to read yours.
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?
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