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Samsung Announces Bixby, Its New Digital Assistant Launching With the Galaxy S8 (phonedog.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the virtual-helpers dept.

Samsung has taken the wraps off its new digital assistant that will be launching with the upcoming Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus smartphones. Called "Bixby," the new assistant will use artificial intelligence to enable users to do everything that is possible to do by touch, but with voice. PhoneDog reports: Samsung is touting three main features of its new assistant. The first is "Completeness," which means that when an app is Bixby-enabled, the assistant will able to perform almost every task that the app normally supports using touch. The second Bixby property is "Context Awareness." This means that when Bixby is activated, it'l be able to understand the current context and the state of the app that you're in without interrupting the work that you're doing. Finally, there's "Cognitive Tolerance." Samsung says that Bixby is smart enough to understand commands with incomplete commands, meaning that you don't have to remember the exact phrase that you have to say to perform a task with an assistant. Bixby will also ask you for more information when performing a task and then execute it. A select number of apps on the Galaxy S8 will be Bixby-enabled at launch, and Samsung plans to add more over time. The company also intends to release an SDK so that third-party app developers can add Bixby support to their apps.

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  1. Good luck with that! by Desler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first is "Completeness," which means that when an app is Bixby-enabled, the assistant will able to perform almost every task that the app normally supports using touch.

    If previous history is anything to go by, pretty much no one outside of Samsung is going to use a Samsung-only API.

  2. As in Bill Bixby by sit1963nz · · Score: 3, Funny

    If that the case DONT buy the green one, you won't like it if it gets angry. May not go up in flames, but it will rip your clothes. (for those old enough to remember the tv series of the Hulk with Bill Bixby / Lou Ferrigno)

  3. Re:Nice by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I don't care what it is...as long as I can fully and confidently turn the fucker OFF and ensure it isn't listening to me in my daily life.

    Its bad enough the Feds are doing it, but at least there is still some semblance of court orders, etc.

    I don't want companies listening to me all day long and processing it through their AI computer systems.

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    Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........