AI Assistants Are Just Alexa All Over Again

Hundreds of billions of dollars were poured into developing artificial intelligence models and infrastructure to support them, all with a promise that artificial intelligence will eventually take over. But in the daily life of the average person, artificial intelligence did not serve more than just a little more intelligent. According to the new data collected by the YouGov polling company, although companies have made a great important thing about cultivating smart assistants with the brains of artificial intelligence, people have barely changed how they interact with the tools.

Yougov asked people about how they interact with their smart assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa (promoted to Alexa+ who works with artificial intelligence materials earlier this year), and Google assistant (who recently turned into a more conversation assist They got an AI update. Answer: They give assistants the simplest tasks, not much.

According to the survey, 59 % of people use their smart assistant to check the weather, 51 % use it to play music, 47 % ask them to search for answers to questions, and 40 % use them to set warnings and time. It is worth noting that these are all things that these devices can do in a functional manner for more than a decade when they started to split their way to our phones and to our homes through smart speakers.

As for the most advanced features that companies have ever loved for users to adopt them, attention in the real world is still not present. Only 19 % of people use their aid in artificial intelligence to control the Internet connected devices in their home (Rip to the Internet of Things). Less than one in 10 people interact with third -party actions such as Alexa Markets, which was supposed to be like the application store for smart speakers, but they were never arrested.

To a large extent, the dismay of the companies of companies who provide these assistants, only 14 % of people do any shopping through their artificial intelligence. It is expected that the industrial intelligence -backed shopping is the industry with a value of $ 30 billion in the next decade. It has begun approximately, reasonably enough!

So the question of technology companies that insist on being accompanied by artificial intelligence comrades on the road, there is a big question looming on the horizon: Why do not these things adhere to? The biggest obstacle is those you think the most intelligent features you may eat, but simply not put in: 42 % of people simply do not see the need to use a smart assistant.

Among those who use it, there is still a problem with a communication barrier between a person and a machine. More than one in four said that the biggest challenge to the use of an intelligent assistant is the lack of understanding of artificial intelligence their request. 12 % of others said that the assistants had accuracy problems, and 10 % said the tools “are not as smart as I expected.” To this end, the most intelligent advantage for smart assistants is not the ability to conduct a conversation or complete multi -step tasks; It is better to understand the speech. It looks like a simple request, but like the smart auxiliaries they make, it also seems that technology companies cannot understand.