Meta and Google bet on AI voice assistants. Will they take off?
An older voice assistant like Siri, which reacts to a database of commands and questions it has been programmed to understand, would fail unless you used specific words, including "What's the weather like in New York?" and “What should I pack for a trip to New York?” The first conversation seems more fluid, like the way people talk to each other. One of the main reasons people gave up on voice assistants like Siri and Alexa was that computers couldn't understand much of what they were asked, and it was difficult to figure out which questions worked. Dimitra Vergyri, director…