From Siri to Alexa to Google, virtual assistants already permeate our lives. What will the next generation of these digital helpers look and sound like? Customer experience professional Karen Lellouche Tordjman gives us a glimpse of where they’re headed — and breaks down the two key challenges engineers need to crack in order to usher in a new age of truly smart voice assistants.
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Your Answer- Emily Cole
February 21, 2022 at 9:14 pm
Mass Breaking & Entering arrests and/or Survial of the Fittest..? Specifically, RE: “Okay, Google. Unlock the front door.” (No way, Google!!)
Grace Bolton
February 21, 2022 at 9:18 pm
So many comments are disagreeing with this but I think the key is that the consumer, hypothetically, will be able to decide which parts of their lives and how much that they want the ai interfering in. These comments are generalizing they problem and freaking out over a robot controlling their lives but for me I would only use it where I need it. Think of an how much easier planning and allocating time would be if you had this kind of technology. That’s what I would do. And I would share what I’m comfortable will. Of course this is the ideal senario but I do fear that it may not turn out that perfectly in the hands of huge tech companies trying to profit
cutefairykiller
February 21, 2022 at 9:36 pm
One just has to look at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, to name a few big ones. People have NO clue what they’re doing. It’s a recipe for disaster.
altqwet
February 21, 2022 at 9:28 pm
yo mama!
pyropulse
February 21, 2022 at 9:33 pm
Nothing comes next because I don’t even use these stupid ‘smart’ nonsense. My brain works 500000 times faster, why would I want to interact with a dumb ‘AI?’
Mimanano
February 21, 2022 at 9:41 pm
That woman is so hot
cjgoeson
February 21, 2022 at 9:49 pm
Sure thing, Karen
Mina Bhr
February 21, 2022 at 9:52 pm
When Technology gets smarter,people are getting colder & no brain, insensitive.what about going back to the root of humanity disconnecting for BETTER CONNECTION
Jh5578
February 21, 2022 at 10:11 pm
This is the part where big tech try to build Jarvis but end up building Ultron.
SurfByShootin
February 21, 2022 at 10:15 pm
Say no to surveillance capitalism.
Oshungurl
February 21, 2022 at 10:18 pm
Um…… scary. All of this. My kids got me an echo for Christmas….. it feels voyeuristic 😳😂
S1NB4D
February 21, 2022 at 10:18 pm
What when we are having a conversation with someone and the Ai keeps interrupting thinking many words are commands instead,that i can see will be very annoying.
Sergei Batiuk
February 21, 2022 at 10:24 pm
Cute girl, scary perspective
ben jones
February 21, 2022 at 10:24 pm
Yeah nah.
Jodi Bales
February 21, 2022 at 10:44 pm
Except most of us DO NOT WANT THIS.
xybp942
February 21, 2022 at 10:51 pm
what in the actual F was this?
some kind of marketing student exercise?
black mirror episode?
absolutely awful video
Kathy k
February 21, 2022 at 10:56 pm
Honestly I think my Siri & Alexa are a PIB. I’m from the south. I’m always repeating myself or slowly myself down so s l o w I sound like animated dysarthria or I get so frustrated with it!🤪. Most of the time I just keep it unplugged and when I need it. That’s just based on the rumor that I hear you can listen to you all the time if you want. Do you or not I’m doing it. Then I go over to my kiddos house and they’ve got their turning off lights and the other stuff so it’s hard enough to remember all my kiddos name and animals and now you want me to remember which light i’m supposed to turn on! And who wants to fight the thermostat down sometime don’t want it cooler😆
FANATIC FORAGER
February 21, 2022 at 11:09 pm
Is ‘’smarter’’, an acronym for ‘Server Manipulation Assimilation Reprogramming Totalitarian Enterprise Resolution’ 👁🗨🔍🤔
TELL A VISION ENT
February 21, 2022 at 11:12 pm
Mark of the beast
silky Robinson
February 21, 2022 at 11:28 pm
Don’t want to watch this these idiots are talking about progress and where is it going to lead to? Can’t even get together with family or friends anymore everybody just wants to text or do some other weird communication that I’m not gonna do I don’t like computers I don’t like all this stuff what happened just sitting and having a freaking cuppa coffee with somebody or reading a book??? Idiots call it Progress I called De – evolution 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Carlos Martinez
February 21, 2022 at 11:33 pm
Hey south park put this in their recent movie
J.S[기마이]Varaba
February 21, 2022 at 11:34 pm
오늘도 영상 👀잘보고 갈께요~
John Correia
February 21, 2022 at 11:42 pm
Welcome to the Machine Kingdom good luck with freedom in the future.
c meserve
February 21, 2022 at 11:53 pm
Hmm. Big bro is dead. Long live bigger sis!
Arjun Jassal
February 22, 2022 at 12:55 am
She’s so beautiful I had to rewatch it for the 4th time to understand what she was talking about
Patricia
February 22, 2022 at 1:13 am
I can’t help myself, I have to say it: “Genisys is Skynet”
Dr Seuss
February 22, 2022 at 2:02 am
Need to make two pipelines down rivers, a say Atlantic ocean supply line and a waste line, everyone’s off toilet to tap and every town taps on, horizontal boring etc, and dumps back into a sealed line. River is uncontaminated and separate system full of water now for nature and irrigation, otter don’t put salt in their water, now they put it on more roads and winter travel is safer, everyone uses a stream distiller to disinfect and remove salt at the kitchen counter for a couple gallons of drinking water a day, no more drain to mouth
Wishing you could hybrid the dna of grass and corn for a lateral corn/grass crop for indoor vertical farming for massive amounts of more cattle on earth
The poor could eat surf and turf every meal, a kid making nothing at a fish store could make 90k in an indoor fish farm and Peele looking for jobs could be restocking ponds and lakes with healthy fish
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February 22, 2022 at 2:08 am
اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه نازحين من الحرب انا واسرتي استاجرنا بيت والان علينا حق ثلاثه شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرناندفعله الأجاريروحالئ ائتلافات نبكي ورجعوتكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه ومامعي اخوان كباره في هذا الظروف اخوتي ولكن انا بنت لااستطيع الاطلاع على البيت للشارع وشافو البيت للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو راوقفووعند بابهم لجلوهم ولوخبزه يسد والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعویبکوایمونومن عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني ولو وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير فيا اخي انت رجال إذاشفت اسرتك جاوعين المستحيل من اجل تامن لهم الأكب ولكن انابنت عيني بصيره ويدي قصيره ليس لي أب مثلك واخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع أنا اقسم بالله الذي رفع سبع سموات بلاعمدوبسط الارض ومهداني لااكذب عليك بحرف من ه ذا الرساله واني ماطلبتك إلى من ضيق ومن قسوت الضروف والحال الذي احنافيه وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره ﻳﺎﺃﻫﻞ ﺍﻟﺨﻴﺮ ﺍﻟﻲ ﻋﻨﺪﻩ ﺍﻟﻘﺪﺭﻩ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻣﺴﺎﻋﺪﺗﻨﺎ لايتاخر علينا لحظه هاذا رقمي واتساب واتصال 00967714707125 الذي يقدر يساعدنا يراسلني على الواتساب نرسله الاسم الكامل يحولنا بقدر استطاعته الله يجزيكم خير،
Alyssa Milano
February 22, 2022 at 2:31 am
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments. You need to keep raw, irrational emotion under control
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February 22, 2022 at 3:02 am
Alexa already manages the lights in several rooms of my house, controls my security camera system, adjusts my thermostat, controls the tv, and even starts my car, and opens the garage door. She can make phone calls for me, and is my kitchen timer, and is capable of running multiple timers for multiple dishes if I’m cooking more than one thing. She’s my alarm clock, and reminds me twice a day when to take my meds. Alexa notifies me of Amazon deliveries, and maintains shopping lists for me. If I ask her to, she orders things for me and in a day or two it’s at my door. I have four Echo devices in my home.
In the car my voice assistant navigates for me, and sends texts and makes phone calls. Occasionally I ask her a question while driving and she provides immediate, accurate information about almost anything.
I’m honestly pretty excited about what’s next!
FASTEST SLOWEST
February 22, 2022 at 6:25 pm
Man, I don’t know, you are living your life or alexa is
betusethu
February 22, 2022 at 3:10 am
The most unprepared Ted Talk ever
Paul Murphy
February 22, 2022 at 3:11 am
The end of human race,turn us in too idiots,thinking for yourself will become impossible,like everyone will be born short sited eventually because of smart phones which have made people more stupid and social media which is antisocial
David Boson
February 22, 2022 at 3:27 am
what a perfect world – having nothing to think about!!!
Zenn Exile
February 22, 2022 at 3:38 am
What comes next is AI monitoring of you behavior passively.
B
February 22, 2022 at 3:44 am
Under corporate capitalism this only is scary. Without a paradigm shift if our consciousness which includes economic, government, climate/biome, and social justice oriented ideas, this type of technology will only be used to extract more wealth from the masses. Ruling class exploitation of natural resources, flora, fauna, and more so now human intellectual/psychological capital, will only continue to get more dystopian until we go extinct.
Sara V.
February 22, 2022 at 4:42 am
Who cares? They’re all mouthpieces for the leftist “Ministry of Truth”.
Michael Budd
February 22, 2022 at 6:17 am
Alternatively you could lead a healthier life and think, as well as do things, for yourself.
laci272
February 22, 2022 at 6:59 am
TED talks quality really went downhill some time ago and it’s not better than random videos now. I know this is more profitable for now, but please, PLEASE, publish fewer, better talks (like you started with).
NotMe,
February 22, 2022 at 7:31 am
I feel like its unnecessary shortcut at the cost of our privacy.
F L U X
February 22, 2022 at 8:12 am
She’s so hot
Ashley Needham
February 22, 2022 at 10:12 am
Solving problems created by tech and big data with more tech and big data. If our lives weren’t so busy by the rush to work more to earn more to pay for more then we wouldn’t need “assistants” to help out.
Javy Valen Thain
February 22, 2022 at 12:06 pm
Skynet is taking over
Spam Mouse
February 22, 2022 at 1:23 pm
It would be great if these devices were “allowed” to do useful things within the home/car etc without EVERYTHING being connected to a sales or sell-up opportunity.
maurits unkel
February 22, 2022 at 1:36 pm
The tech is interesting, the social implacation is dystopian.
clivend
February 22, 2022 at 1:37 pm
No thanks
Joel Heath
February 22, 2022 at 5:43 pm
I already choose not to have a smart assistant device because it’s too invasive. Making it even more invasive isn’t a selling point.
Mr. Bob Dobalina • 93 years
February 22, 2022 at 8:37 pm
Fruit salad
Yummy yummy
sanjuansteve
February 22, 2022 at 11:30 pm
I prefer my privacy and to find efficiencies in life in other ways that don’t compromise it. I have a sticker covering my laptop’s camera and would love it if computers came with a physical (not hackable) microphone switch too.
Things I Buy
February 23, 2022 at 4:36 am
I can listen to this woman talk all day
쏘울
February 23, 2022 at 8:18 am
Is she British? It is a bit weird.
sjihT raahfrohcS
February 23, 2022 at 9:27 am
Oh my god, this is going to be the downfall of humanity. Who the *** would want to stop ‘living’ so you can work more but still give the impression you’re handling everything fine.
Start thinking people, NO you do not want this!!!
Al Ferro
February 23, 2022 at 6:10 pm
It seams that for you, we are looking for a more “efficient” life where AI is replacing human experience. But my ability to take decisions come from my experience in life.
If we grow the next generation with AI, we will have a different kind of human being. Horrendous prospect.
We should slow down, not acellerate.
Also, I want people to be able to change taste and opinions, not to get stuck
on the rails that algorithms think are right for me.
IronMongoose1
February 23, 2022 at 7:26 pm
I hate everything about this.
Tom Perkin
February 23, 2022 at 8:08 pm
If her robot allowed, I would root her
Tony Cash
February 24, 2022 at 12:24 am
This kind of technology partly already exists, although it is very limited. And there are all chances to get more perfect assistants already now, for example that text to voice has been able to imitate a person almost perfectly for 2-3 years, but on phones we still see the technology, which is 10 years old, which is being developed in a different direction – expanding capabilities, betting on neural networks, while in my opinion, neural networks as a basis are not quite suitable for creating “thinking” networks, which will in the future give more than the speaker tells us.