Virtual Assistant

The Gemini AI assistant can now open apps, access websites and settings, and manage device features like alarms, volume, and display brightness through the Utilities extension

Air India's virtual travel assistant will help travellers to ask questions across a wide spectrum of over 1300 travel-related topics and access a host of features

Virtual assistants can slash the load for teachers; systems like Chat GPT can provide students personalised inputs

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The hybrid work format has speeded up the use of intelligent virtual assistants, for customer-facing roles as well as internal enterprise management functions

Microsoft has announced to end support for its visual assistant Cortana on both Android and iOS devices.

Neon can be a real game changer

Intelligent chatbots are computer programmed software that imitate human conversation - spoken or written - powered by technologies such as AI, natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning

English speakers overwhelmingly prefer virtual assistants

Gartner predicts that, by 2023, 25 per cent of employee interactions with applications will be via voice, up from under 3 per cent in 2019

A digital assistant relies on many different technology systems, all working together on the device and inside a network of computer data centres that connect to the assistant over the internet