120 AI Predictions For 2020

2020 predictions for a wide range of topics: Autonomous vehicles, deepfakes, small data, voice and natural language processing, human and augmented intelligence, bias and explainability, edge and IoT processing, and many promising applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies and tools.

How Do People Use Voice Search?

Voice technology changes the way we interact with our devices and search for things online. Our survey finds that people who use voice search are likely to use it multiple times a week and most likely use it to search for information, products, and services.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch!

While Deep Learning can help solve some problems with remarkable human-like ability (sometimes even outperforming humans in tasks such as image recognition and game playing), there are many examples where other types of machine learning are just as effective or even more suitable – providing better decision making, while often requiring less training data, less computing power and less “tweaking”.

Amazon Is Crowdsourcing Alexa’s Answers, So This Should Be Fun

There’s always that deep sigh of disappointment—or sometimes even laughter or wonder—when you ask an Alexa voice assistant a question and she has absolutely no idea what you’re talking about: “Sorry, I don’t know that one.”

Amazon Wants to Put Alexa in Cars. Google and Apple Are There Already

Amazon is entering a market already contested by Google and Apple Inc., not to mention automakers leery of ceding control of the dashboard to Big Tech.

Moor Insights & Strategy Podcast – Aiqudo

Aiqudo is doing some extremely disruptive things in the exploding voice platform segment with a “voice to action” approach that is indeed both unique and compelling.

How to Exert Privacy Control Over Your Home Speakers

Getting a measure of control about access to the recordings varies with the device. Users of smart speakers need to exercise a degree of control with smart speakers, just as they should with video recording devices.

5 Innovative Ways AI Is Charting New Territory

Instead of using hands to control our technology, companies are banking on voice commands to be the future of interfacing with our expanding quiver of devices… Aiqudo wants to make every app on a smartphone controllable with voice commands, regardless of what device a user might have.

The State of Conversational AI and Consumer Trust

Conversational AI voice technology offers new opportunities to automate everyday responsibilities. Yet, people indicate a lack of trust toward these tools’ abilities to successfully complete tasks. Nearly three-quarters of people are unlikely to trust conversational AI to answer simple calls or emails, but experts say this hesitancy will shift as the technologies become more mainstream, despite security risks.

Voice of the Car – Q Actions Auto Mode

The Aiqudo team presented Q Actions Auto Mode at the Voice of the Car Summit in San Francisco. Simple voice commands are used to initiate actions safely and hands-free from the car – productivity tasks, personal tasks, messaging and calling, joining meetings, and even shopping … a whole range of Actions not supported  by any other voice assistant platform today.

The rise of the ubiquitous voice assistant

Millions of users are already using these powerful mobile apps on their phones on a daily basis. We don’t see this changing dramatically in the near future. The only way for voice assistants to be ubiquitous is to embrace the simplicity and trust that users have in their mobile apps. In fact, the IDC Consumer IoT Survey presented at CES 2019 shows that voice usage is almost twice as much on mobile devices (~70%) than on smart speakers (~36%).

AiThority Interview Series With Rajat Mukherjee, Co-Founder and CTO at Aiqudo

At Aiqudo, we’ve addressed this issue of “Actionable Intent” with proprietary technology that encompasses the rich app ecosystem without requiring APIs, and without asking app developers to do a lot of work and reinvent the wheel.

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Steve Jobs took to a stage a dozen years ago this week to introduce a revolutionary new product to the world: the first Apple iPhone. That groundbreaking device, and the competitors that followed, changed the way people communicated, ordered dinner and hailed a taxi. The technology world reoriented around the smartphone, supplanting the personal computer, MP3 players, the digital camera and maps. And the mobile economy was born.

Artificial Intelligence Is About to Make a Splash at CES 2019

For something not visible to the human eye, artificial intelligence will be omnipresent at the Consumer Electronics Show this week.

AI, the fast-growing technology behind speech recognition and machine learning, will be tangible in the form of hardware and software offerings…

Does AI Really Speak Our Language?

Artificial intelligence has come a long way in handling tasks that involve language, but it’s still missing most of the nuance and context that we humans take for granted.