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As said a few times here at Showmetech, the artificial intelligence is the main focus of technology today. Keeping that in mind, every big company already has its personal assistant. Google with Google Assistant, Apple with the Crab and Amazon with Alexa. 2w5u36
While Google made a huge publicity of its Assistant in the CES 2018, Alexa looks a lot more promising than all the others. See why now:
Alexa will dominate the market o6l
According to company research eMarketer, about 45 million Americans will talk to some kind of artificial intelligence through smart speakers. However, only about a bedroom of this number will have the participation of Google Assistant.
In contrast, the Alexa must stay with 68% of this total. This is due to the not so recent investment of the company in the area. In 2014, Amazon was the first to create a voice service that powers an entire environment.
It does not stop there. THE Alexa will be on a light switch made by iDevices. Through it, it will be possible to interact with the assistant through the built-in microphone and speaker.
Furthermore, Alexa will be available offline in cars. With that, the personal assistant of the Amazon will be present everywhere: TVs, smartwatches, PCs and more.
Healthy competition between Amazon and Google 85z1x
Although the first stage of this competition was marked by the integration of personal assistants in door locks and light switches, the second stage must be even more interesting.
At CES 2018, we have seen the integration of Google Assistant and Alexa everywhere. The reason for this is that Google and Amazon are competing to make companies third-party put artificial intelligence in every kind of product.
Despite Amazon's ads being much more expressive, Google still has an advantage. The assistant of the biggest search engine is present in basically every cell phone nowadays, since it is part of the Android.
So the Google Assistant it seems to be more present in our daily lives as it is always in our pocket, but its shine stops there. In the background, the battle is being won by Alexa.
Second Avi Greengart, an analyst at Global Data, Amazon has gone to great lengths to make it easy to implement its AI on various types of hardware. "This requires a lot of engineering work, and Amazon has been willing to do it.“, says Greengart.
Where is Apple in all this? 2e1j33
The apple company always has its audience. However, that doesn't exactly make her a contender in this race. O HomePod it is an attempt by Apple to enter the competition.
The HomePod will be available in two colors.
Announced in June last year, the device whose brain is the Crab had the launch postponed to the beginning of this year. However, this is the company's only effort in this regard.
iPhone fans and the brand in general will definitely opt for the HomePod, however, will be limited to what he can do alone. It's hard to imagine the Apple teaming up with other companies to put the Crab on all types of hardware.
O showmetech traveled to Las Vegas at the invitation of Samsung to cover the CES 2018. We have many articles about the main announcements of the biggest technology fair in the world. So feel invited to check them out.
Source: Fast Company
