Intelligent Personal Assistants

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Intelligent personal assistants, also called virtual assistants, is software that can assist the user with tasks, planning, or retrieving information similarly to a human assistant. This software usually fully utilizes the sensors present on the device it runs on for contextual awareness. This way it can deliver more accurate and relevant information. Modern intelligent personal assistants are able to learn based on previous input so they can offer better, more personalized results to the user.

Personal assistants that are for the general consumer are, for example, the Apple Siri, Microsfot Cortana, Amazon Echo, or Google Now. Advanced AIs that can also be utilized as intelligent personal assistants in some applications include for example the IBM Watson.

Main Characteristics

These assistants usually take a form of an app that acts as an interface for the user. Through this interface, the user can either by voice or by text issues queries and commands to the assistant software.

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Company & People

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Enhancement/Therapy/Treatment

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Public & Media Impact and Presentation

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