Microsoft Cortana: First Casualty of the Digital-Assistant Wars? Nick Kolakowski, August 19, 2019 3 min read Amazon has Alexa, Google has its voice-activated Assistant, and Apple has Siri. Anxious to compete in the growing...
Survey Results: Alexa, Siri, Google Voice Queries Should Not Be Heard Nate Swanner, August 15, 2019 4 min read Two weeks ago, we asked if you thought voice-activated A.I. queries made via Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or...
Survey: Should Apple, Amazon, and Google Let Humans Listen to Your Voice Queries? Nate Swanner, July 30, 2019 3 min read Over the weekend, The Guardian reported that Apple employs external contractors to listen to Siri requests in an...
Developers Split on Digital Assistants Like Siri & Alexa Nate Swanner, May 15, 2019 4 min read Digital assistants such as Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are taking over our day-to-day existence. At just about...
2019 May Not Be a Great Year for Amazon Alexa Nate Swanner, December 31, 2018 2 min read Even as Amazon works to have its Alexa digital assistant running on every imaginable piece of hardware, a new study...
Google Wants to Assist You in Building for Google Assistant Nick Kolakowski, May 4, 2018 2 min read Interested in Google Assistant as a development platform? Google wants to encourage that impulse. A new program will...
If You Want an A.I. Job, Go with Siri or Alexa Nate Swanner, April 4, 2018 6 min read When it comes to artificial intelligence (A.I.), three major players exist in the consumer space: Google, Apple, and...
Siri Might Just Be Smarter Than Alexa: Report Nate Swanner, January 11, 2018 4 min read While digital artificial intelligence (A.I.) assistants are still (mostly) dumb, new research shows that Siri has...
Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant Move to Dominate CES Nick Kolakowski, January 9, 2018 3 min read At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the emphasis is on artificial intelligence (A.I.) and...
No A.I. Assistant Smarter Than a Six-Year-Old: Study Nate Swanner, October 11, 2017 4 min read A.I. assistants are actually pretty dumb. Big tech companies want us all to embrace digital assistants in a big...