Questions tagged [intelligent-personal-assistants]

For questions about intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), aka intelligent virtual assistants (IVA) or simply chatbots, which are software agents that can perform tasks or services for an individual based on commands or questions. A famous IPA is, for example, Siri.

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Are Siri and Cortana AI programs?

Siri and Cortana communicate pretty much like humans. Unlike Google Now, which mainly gives us search results when asked some questions (not setting alarms or reminders), Siri and Cortana provide us with an answer, in the same way that a person…
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How do AIs like Siri and Alexa respond to their names being called?

AIs like Siri and Alexa respond to their names being called. How does the system recognize the name by ignoring all the other words that have been said before their name? For example, "Hey Siri" would trigger Siri to start listening for commands,…
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How can a system like Jarvis understand the commands and take actions?

I am looking to make an AI like Jarvis. A perfect real-life example of this type of system is the simple AI that Mark Zuckerberg has recently built. Here is a description of how his AI works. From what I understand, the AI understands keywords,…
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Is there an AI assistant that can observe and control my computer/cell phone

I do a lot of boring office work, mostly on various websites, lots of copy and pasting and entering data into spreadsheets, making contracts, sending the same boiler plate emails to clients, making invoices and following up. It seems like AI would…
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How to add contextual follow up like Google Assistant

I am developing PDA like Google assistant on Android. So far, so good. But now, I want to add contextual follow up like Google assistant so it can keep the train of thought. As demonstrated here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYRENGuwwCA Can…