A pair of glasses from Meta shoots a picture when you say, “Hey, Meta, take a photo.” A miniature computer that clips to your shirt, the Ai Pin, translates foreign languages into your native tongue. An artificially intelligent screen features a virtual assistant that you talk to through a microphone.
Last year, OpenAI updated its ChatGPT chatbot to respond with spoken words, and recently, Google introduced Gemini, a replacement for its voice assistant on Android phones.
Tech companies are betting on a renaissance for voice assistants, many years after most people decided that talking to computers was uncool.
Will it work this time? Maybe, but it could take a while.
"Tech companies are betting on a renaissance for #voiceassistants, many years after most people decided that talking to computers was uncool.
Will it work this time? Maybe, but it could take a while."https://t.co/HougUGelmm
— Stephen Loynd (@loyndsview) May 2, 2024