Samsung details on upcoming AI virtual assistant that is competitive to Apples Siri

[Tech_Dreamer]

Watch out SIRI,

 

Samsung is to introduce a new voice assistant to its new line up of smart phones nick named "Bixby" , This new implementation of A.I assisted voice control is set to compete against its rival company's rather the digital assistant will debut with the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in late March. Unlike SIRI voice assistance that works on through the home button , Bixby is set to have a small dedicated button for it to be activated just below the volume controls on the side of the phone ,  The goal of Bixby is to voice-enable every single action in an app that you'd normally do via touch, the general hassle of going through contacts or opening a certain message etc , the general notion of going into homescree, opening applications folder & there might be subfolder within folders that you need to go through to get into the app that you want, all of this will be eased out with a simple voice command using bixby basically making it effortless

 

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Samsung claims Bixby can understand incomplete commands, so you hopefully won't be forced to memorize rote phrases. One can show it a product and pose a question about the product using your voice. Bixby will be able to give back immediate feedback based on what it can see via the camera.

 

Bixby designer > Injong Rhee

 

The system in general aims to do a polished version of SIRI in a way , but in a bit more complicated way , Samsung already had a simple voice command system known as S-Voice with limited ability to interact with the user , The new AI assistant is set to talk back & interact flawlessly with the user,

 

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In the upcoming Galaxy S8, users will find an extra button on the left side of the phone, just below the volume controls. Pressing it will activate Bixby, Samsung's new voice assistant. Once activated, Bixby will help you navigate what's arguably the most sophisticated piece of technology you own — the smartphone in your hand. , the AI Assistant will enable Samsung Galaxy S8 to recognize images and give back feedback regarding the image in question. For instance, you can show Bixby a product and it will be able to scan it and give you details of the brand name, price, date of manufacture, expiry date and more.

 

 

 

Bixby's main progressive feature :

1. Completeness
   When an application becomes Bixby-enabled, Bixby will be able to support almost every  task that the application is capable of performing using the conventional interface (ie. touch commands).  Most existing agents currently support only a few selected tasks for an application and therefore confuse users about what works or what doesn’t work by voice command. The completeness property of Bixby will simplify user education on the capability of the agent, making the behaviors of the agent much more predictable
2. Context Awareness
   When using a Bixby-enabled application, users will be able to call upon Bixby at any time and it will understand the current context and state of the application and will allow users to carry out the current work-in-progress continuously.  Bixby will allow users to weave various modes of interactions including touch or voice at any context of the application, whichever they feel is most comfortable and intuitive.  Most existing agents completely dictate the interaction modality and, when switching among the modes, may either start the entire task over again, losing all the work in progress, or simply not understand the user’s intention.
3. Cognitive Tolerance
   When the number of supported voice commands gets larger, most users are cognitively challenged to remember the exact form of the voice commands. Most agents require users to state the exact commands in a set of fixed forms. Bixby will be smart enough to understand commands with incomplete information and execute the commanded task to the best of its knowledge, and then will prompt users to provide more information and take the execution of the task in piecemeal. This makes the interface much more natural and easier to use.

 

 

This is actually a significant move from the company that is pushing it towards a right direction imo, soon this will be implemented on Samsung future products according to their official blog post, a simple voice command is all you need

 

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Starting with our smartphones, Bixby will be gradually applied to all our appliances.  In the future you would be able to control your air conditioner or TV through Bixby. Since Bixby will be implemented in the cloud, as long as a device has an internet connection and simple circuitry to receive voice inputs, it will be able to connect with Bixby. As the Bixby ecosystem grows, we believe Bixby will evolve from a smartphone interface to an interface for your life.

 

What do you think ? Post your comments down beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

 

News Source(s):

 

https://news.samsung.com/us/injong-rhee-bixby-a-new-way-to-interact-with-your-phone/

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/20/samsung-unveils-bixby-its-siri-competitor/

http://www.nashvillechatterclass.com/samsung-galaxy-s8-bixby-ai-assistant-will-recognize-images-too-heres-how/25333/

http://mashable.com/2017/03/20/samsung-bixby/#8YPvd0UC_iq7

 

[The_Denks]

SO they are replacing the Active key on the S7 active for a Bixby Button?

 

Also can Bixby order prostitutes?

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-users-complain-siri-ruins-prostitutes-search/

[dizmo]

I hate how they call it AI. It's a virtual assistant. It's not really AI.

I never used this kind of thing before, don't foresee needing it anytime soon. I hope you can remap the button to the camera.

[TidaLWaveZ]

Preorders S8, gets S8 on release day, opens box, turns on phone, disables Bixby permanently

[Okjoek]

Another one really?

 

Why would these things catch on to the point where they keep making them?

[RedRound2]

Yes, it's all well and good on paper. Until it performs half as decent as it's described, I'm talking this with a grain of salt. Current state of voice assistants is far far far away from being anything close to what AI is actually supposed to be

 

Pretty much the word AI is being misused a lot these days. Voice assistants like these aren't AI because all the answers are pre-recorded and the program itself doesn't make an answer

 

And PS, who navigates their phone with voice? The only use I see of voice assistants on phones is to do a specific task hands-free which Siri and google assistant already do

 

And also, good luck with "Bixby supported apps"

[Guest Kloaked]

5 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Another one really?

 

Why would these things catch on to the point where they keep making them?

Samsung has always done this. They just about have their own app for every app on the Google Play store for example.

 

I'm actually surprised that they haven't yet completely moved to Tizen for their mobile ecosystem.

[TidaLWaveZ]

38 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Another one really?

 

Why would these things catch on to the point where they keep making them?

More BIG DATA, more $$

 

Is it a coincidence that certain providers are giving a free TV/Google Home with the G6?

 

Just more ways for companies to profit from collecting your data.

[suicidalfranco]

Rejoice! spyware! huzzah!

[Doobeedoo]

Ok cool let's see how well it works.

[AnonymousGuy]

6 hours ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

When an app becomes Bixby enabled

Let's just keep it honest here, there's going to be < 10 apps that are ever Bixby enabled, and probably none that anyone is going to use on a daily basis.  And even if it is "enabled" it's probably going to work half the time at doing what you request of it.

[LucidMew]

So what's happened to S Voice? I remember using that on my SIII and my SIV every so often. 

[Remixt]

On 3/20/2017 at 10:29 AM, dizmo said:

I hate how they call it AI. It's a virtual assistant. It's not really AI.

I never used this kind of thing before, don't foresee needing it anytime soon. I hope you can remap the button to the camera.

Actually, it is AI by definition. Just had a huge debate about this with my professor and lost unfortunately.

[BuckGup]

1 hour ago, Remixt said:

Actually, it is AI by definition. Just had a huge debate about this with my professor and lost unfortunately.

It's not AI. Looking over how many times Siri and other "AI" screw up it is all just a relay of commands. The software interprets the voice command and does the action with pre programmed responses to make it seem like it is someone. NOT AI. As much as people want to believe Siri is not AI.

[Remixt]

9 minutes ago, SamStrecker said:

It's not AI. Looking over how many times Siri and other "AI" screw up it is all just a relay of commands. The software interprets the voice command and does the action with pre programmed responses to make it seem like it is someone. NOT AI. As much as people want to believe Siri is not AI.

It is AI as I said by definition. Contextually I agree that it's not intelligent, but artificial intelligence doesn't have to be good to be what it is. Even a chat bot is considered AI. There aren't only pre-programmed responses in siri. It recognizes text and speech, has a growing database of information, and continually searches for information in certain situations without explicit instructions. Siri, or even a simple chat bot meets the basic requirements for our current definition of AI. Now if you are talking about the singularity, nothing has come anywhere close to that. However, we aren't exactly discussing that here.

[BuckGup]

1 hour ago, Remixt said:

It is AI as I said by definition. Contextually I agree that it's not intelligent, but artificial intelligence doesn't have to be good to be what it is. Even a chat bot is considered AI. There aren't only pre-programmed responses in siri. It recognizes text and speech, has a growing database of information, and continually searches for information in certain situations without explicit instructions. Siri, or even a simple chat bot meets the basic requirements for our current definition of AI. Now if you are talking about the singularity, nothing has come anywhere close to that. However, we aren't exactly discussing that here.

Yeah I guess it depends on how you define intelligence. As of now Siri is so bad I just turn it off. It works fine for saying what's the weather and changing your smart thermo stat but you look like an idiot in public yelling into your phone when a couple of taps and swipes would do the same.