Macy’s is prepping an AI shopping assistant on the back of a new partnership with IBM. The new system, called Macy’s On Call, is a mobile tool that will help shoppers find their way round 10 US stores piloting the system. Customers will be able to ask select questions such as where certain brands and […]
Google has launched Google Springboard, designed to act as an AI assistant for its enterprise customers. According to Prabhakar Raghavan, VP of engineering for Google Apps, the average knowledge worker spends the equivalent of one full day a week searching for and gathering information. Google Springboard aims to reduce this by searching across all the […]
Two engineers who helped build Siri, the famous voice assistant built into every iPhone, have claimed to have gone one step better with an all new digital assistant nicknamed Viv. Unlike her predecessor Viv will not be locked down to one ecosystem – an advantage which is likely to set it apart from the likes […]