TALKING TO COMPUTERS: THE AGE OF VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS
Friday 08/05 at 5 p.m.
with Roberto Pieraccini, Engineering Director at Google, Google Personal Assistant coordinator
Over the past decade, and especially with recent advances in artificial intelligence, the technology of conversation via natural language with computers has made great strides. Speech recognition, natural language understanding and generation, text-to-speech, and dialog management have reached performance levels that make the commercialization of virtual assistants, including Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, possible.
As early as the mid-1990s, virtual assistants have been a technology used in industrial applications (one example is customer service), but it is only today that we are seeing their extensive use in the market Consumer, with a great opportunity to improve and simplify, at all levels, interaction with the digital world and the vast amount of network information, home automation and communications control.