Hey Siri, Let's Chat about Alexa, Google Home other A.I. devices

A look at smart audio controlled A.I. devices

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

HEY SIRI

LET’S CHAT ABOUT ALEXA AND OTHER A.I.
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YOUR PERSONAL ASSISTANT

POWERED BY A.I.
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65 MILLION

Over 25%of all US households

TODAY’S CHAT QUESTIONS

  • What is A.I.?
  • Which is best for you?
  • What else can they do?
  • Security & Confidentiality?
  • Future of A.I. Devices?
  • Other Questions

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

WHAT IS IT?

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

  • Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is intelligence displayed by machines
Artificial intelligence AI, also machine intelligence, MI is intelligence displayed by machines
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“The A.I. goal is to enable the development of computers that are able to do things normally done by people.”

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Which is Best for You?

AUDIO A.I. Devices

  • Google Home
  • Amazon Alexa
  • Apple Home Pod w/Siri
  • (Cortana) on MS Edge
  • Samsung's Bixby
  • Other

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APPLE HOME POD $349

"Great Sound - Poor Smarts"

WHO IS THE SMARTEST?

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WHO IS THE SMARTEST?

  • Google Home is the best with factual questions.
  • Alexa is best at learning about you.
  • Cortana is quickly catching up.
  • Siri's programmers have the best sense of humor.

The Contentors

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GOOGLE HOME ($25-$130)

  • Google’s smart hub is a compact device with two microphones and four speakers. It’s powered by the Google Assistant, used on Android phones.
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Google Home Family

  • Home
  • Mini
  • Chromecast
Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDUl-TpObVc

The Google Max has also recently been intro at $399

What Else?

Any Chromecast supported app
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CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai at a recent Google shareholder meeting made an amazing demo of how human personal can sound and reason with humans.

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/D5VN56jQMWM

SKILLS VS ACTIONS

  • Amazon Alexa = Skills
  • Google Home = Actions
  • These are 3rd party apps

LINK DEVICES

  • Google Home 1,830 actions
  • Amazon Alexa 30,000 skills
  • These are 3rd party apps
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TIP # 1

Get acquainted with the operating app

AMAZON ALEXA

  • Amazon started the voice-controlled hub trend in Nov 2014 with the Echo, powered by the company’s voice assistant Alexa.

ECHO ($70-$149)

  • It comes with an array of seven microphones that let it hear commands from anywhere in the room it’s in, even while playing music.
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THE ALEXA FAMILY

  • Dot ($25-$50)
  • Echo ($69-$129)
  • Spot ($129)
  • Show ($99-$199)
  • Kindle Fire ($49 - $159)
  • TV Fire Stick ($39-$59)
  • Look ($99-$199)

When Alexa can’t answer a question on its own, it relies on Bing search results.

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How are you using

your smart device?

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SET MULTIPLE TIMERS

Alexa Native Features

  • Music
  • Audible Book
  • Ask Questions
  • Order Product
  • Set Timers
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TIP #3

Have Alexa read your Kindle Books

Shopping

  • In app turn on Voice Purchasing settings
  • In Amazon.com enable one click purchasing & Prime
  • Track status & reorder

TIP #4

SET UP AN ALEXA VOICE CODE #

Music & News

  • Amazon Prime & Amazon Unlimited Music
  • Spotify Premium
  • Pandora Free & Premium
  • TuneIn on iHeartRadio
  • Bluetooth connections

TIP #5

Playlists
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More

  • Manage Calendars & ToDos
  • Online Shopping
  • Sport Scores & Schedule
  • News, Traffic & Weather
  • Alarms & Timers
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Tasks

Calendar & To Do Lists
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TIP #7

Set up My Briefing (my day Google)

More Native Q & A

  • Math & conversions
  • Find local businesses
  • Movies information
  • Open hours
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Smart Home

  • Light
  • Temperature
  • Appliances
  • TV
  • Security Systems/ Guard
  • Other .........
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ADDITIONAL SKILLS USING APPS

Fun & Games

  • Jeopardy
  • Song Quiz
  • Magic Door
  • Joke of Day
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OTHERS

  • Ask questions of experts
  • Wall Street Journal News
  • WebMD – answers to your health questions, from conditions to drugs to side effect
  • Uber or order a taxi
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HELP!

Ask MY BUDDY
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TRANSLATOR

Go to translator
Please come on Thursday to trim my palm trees. in Spainist

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SECURITY ISSUES

What about priacy and confidential?

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/3QzmmeTEk30

Future?

“Amazon’s goal: help Alexa break free of the Echo speaker so that it can become a platform all on its own. A new kind of operating system that we won’t see on a screen, but talk to.”
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ALEXA BUILT INTO

OTHER DEVICES

“Amazon's Goal is to get out of the speaker and away from the key board and into your life.”

WELCOME

TO A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF A.I. DEVICES
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Are you ready

For the future with A.I. devices?
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TODAY’S CHAT QUESTIONS

  • What is an A.I. Assistant?
  • Which may be best for you?
  • Some tips & tricks?
  • What else can they do?
  • Security Issues?
  • A look at the future?

Thank you

For this chat
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MORE INFORMATION

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  • Call my phone
  • Get a weather report @ 7:00 AM
  • Get notifications ....
  • Post a tweet
  • Etc. Etc
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