Gadgetory

so you all know that artificial intelligence is supposed to be big but exactly how big and to give you some perspective you should note that for many years Google would say that they are a mobile first company until just this past year they said that they are an AI first company that has some pretty massive ramifications but more specifically for those of you interested in Samsung's new flagship the s8 Samsung's VP of mobile communications one of the record' recently by saying that the s8 would have enhanced artificial intelligence services exactly what does he mean by enhanced well let's start off let's first talk about what we know and what we know is that Samsung recently acquired an AI firm called viv labs the company admitted that it was bringing a new AI digital assistant to the Galaxy s8 and other Samsung products since then we've heard more reports about a Bigsby and castra the male and female voices Samsung trademarked for its new voice assistant Samsung Bigsby will reportedly be able to handle your mobile payments using voice commands alone courtesy of a feature called Bigsby pay Samsung has also commented previously on being able to use its new voice assistant to order pizza or request an uber all of this will be achievable through Bigsby alone without needing to launch your pizza app or uber app and that's not all the platform on which Bigsby is built supports IOT devices and will be used to connect smart appliances mobile devices and more with this in mind Bigsby might end up being a phone based competitor to the likes of Google home or Amazon Alexa rather than just a serie or Cortana and this is a pretty important distinction because I think that Samsung is not just trying to create another better competitor to Surrey or Google Assistant but we're talking about a whole new way potentially of interacting with our devices via voice commands instead of this we're doing jean-luc Picard tl gray hot now we know what some of you are thinking you're thinking chase that may be decades away before we're there but not quite because there are major improvements that have been happening just in the past 12 months on the AI front case in point when you use Google assistant and you say hey how old is Bruce Springsteen for example and then immediately I follow up that question with how tall is he Google should understand in the context of that question that I mean Bruce Springsteen because in the past two years ago when you just said how old is Bruce Springsteen you would have had to follow up that question with how tall is Bruce Springsteen because Google assistant would not understand the context of the discussion but it does now or it should and it's improving and if that's true that actually happens and it's consistent or reliable that's fantastic people like my mother can use Google assistant and not get frustrated so why do I love our new sponsor ting because ting saves you cash ting is a mobile phone service that is helping people like you save a lot of money on their monthly cell phone bills ting is not just lowering their mobile data rates across the board but you also just pay for what you use with ting and that now also includes data for just $10 per gigabyte visit a a tang comm and see how much you can save with ting and on top of that you'll get $25 towards your first device or ting service