Virtual Assistant

Xiaomi introduces its own virtual assistant called Xiao Ai in China

Xiaomi's virtual assistant called as Xiao Ai is now available in China and there are less chances of its coming to India.

Amazon Alexa gets a new 'Brief mode' option that makes it less chatty by cutting down on unnecessary responses

Where Alexa would normally respond with “OK” or some other such appropriate response to a query, there is now an option to make Alexa respond with a beep.

How smart virtual personal assistants can incubate human empathy

Mobile technology giants have been making it happen, with their Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA) that have been strengthening the human-machine relationship.

About 93 percent Indians feel positive about bots and virtual assistant: Survey

The survey, by technology giant Cisco, revealed that employees from Mexico (97 percent) and China (96 percent) also desired a virtual assistant at work.

Google Assistant to recognise the song playing near you; new update rolling out to enable the feature

The new update is now rolling out to all Android devices that enable Google Assistant, will help all users who have access to Google Assistant.

ICICI Bank's AI-powered chatbot iPal completes 6 million responses, interacts with 3.1 million customers in eight months

8 months since the launch, the bank has released some numbers: 6 million queries answered and 3.1 million customers have interacted with 90% accuracy rate.

Facebook adds three new artificial intelligence based 'quick replies' to the M, the virtual assistant on Messenger

Facebook has added three new automatic suggestions using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the Messenger app's virtual assistant 'M'.

Leveraging artificial intelligence to make e-commerce platforms more accessible to consumers

The e-commerce landscape is exploding with the world players joining the battle with home grown startups.

The future of the Indian banking industry after a decade of scrupulous control

The Indian banking industry is opening up in a big way with the introduction of Payments Bank along with wallet operators entering the non-bank space.

Am I Digital – Ten ways to embrace digital technologies in your life

Everyone is getting digitalised in some way or the other in their lives today without even being aware of it.