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A virtual assistant (VA) is a software agent that can perform a range of tasks or services for a user based on user input such as commands or questions, including verbal ones.^[1]

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Actions on Google

Actions on Google was a development platform for the Google Assistant.

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Aeroméxico

Aerovías de México, S.A. de C.V. operating as Aeroméxico (styled as AM), is the flag carrier of Mexico, based in Mexico City.

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AIM (AOL Instant Messenger, sometimes stylized as aim) was an instant messaging and presence computer program created by AOL, which used the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time.

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Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines is a major American airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area.

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Alibaba Group

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, branded as Alibaba, is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology.

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Alice (virtual assistant)

Alice (translit) is a Russian intelligent personal assistant for Android, iOS and Windows operating systems and Yandex's own devices developed by Yandex. Virtual assistant and Alice (virtual assistant) are virtual assistants.

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AliGenie

AliGenie is a China-based open-platform intelligent personal assistant launched and developed by Alibaba Group, currently used in the Tmall Genie smart speaker. Virtual assistant and AliGenie are virtual assistants.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Amazon Alexa

Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. Virtual assistant and Amazon Alexa are virtual assistants.

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Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo, often shortened to Echo, is an American brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon.

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Amazon Lex

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text.

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Ambient intelligence

Ambient intelligence (AmI) is a term used in computing to refer to electronic environments that are sensitive to the presence of people.

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American Airlines

American Airlines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Antonio Casilli

Antonio A. Casilli (born 1972) is a Professor of Sociology at Télécom Paris, the school of telecommunications engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, and an Associate Researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Applications of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in applications throughout industry and academia.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Artificial intelligence in government

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a range of uses in government.

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Asia–Pacific

The Asia–Pacific (APAC) is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean.

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Assistant (by Speaktoit)

Assistant is an intelligent personal assistant application for mobile devices developed by Speaktoit.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.

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Automotive industry

The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.

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Autonomous agent

There are various definitions of autonomous agent.

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Avatar (computing)

In computing, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user, the user's character, or persona.

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Baidu

Baidu, Inc. is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence.

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Bell Labs

Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.

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Bixby (software)

Bixby (RR: bikseubi) is a virtual assistant developed by Samsung Electronics, launched in 2017 as a replacement of the S Voice assistant. Virtual assistant and Bixby (software) are virtual assistants.

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BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry 10 (BB10) was a proprietary mobile operating system for the BlackBerry line of smartphones, both developed by BlackBerry Limited (formerly known as Research In Motion).

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BlackBerry Limited

BlackBerry Limited (formerly Research In Motion or RIM for short) is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity.

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Braina

Braina is a virtual assistant and speech-to-text dictation application for Microsoft Windows developed by Brainasoft. Virtual assistant and Braina are chatbots and virtual assistants.

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Bring your own device

Bring your own device (BYOD)—also called bring your own technology (BYOT), bring your own phone (BYOP), and bring your own personal computer (BYOPC)—refers to being allowed to use one's personally owned device, rather than being required to use an officially provided device.

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Call centre

A call centre (Commonwealth spelling) or call center (American spelling; see spelling differences) is a managed capability that can be centralised or remote that is used for receiving or transmitting a large volume of enquiries by telephone. Virtual assistant and call centre are customer service.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Celia (virtual assistant)

Celia is an artificially intelligent virtual assistant developed by Huawei for their latest HarmonyOS and Android-based EMUI smartphones that lack Google Services and a Google Assistant. Virtual assistant and Celia (virtual assistant) are chatbots and virtual assistants.

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Century 21 Exposition

The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Chatbot

A chatbot (originally chatterbot) is a software application or web interface that is designed to mimic human conversation through text or voice interactions. Virtual assistant and chatbot are chatbots.

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a chatbot and virtual assistant developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022. Virtual assistant and ChatGPT are chatbots and virtual assistants.

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Chromecast

Chromecast is a line of digital media players developed by Google.

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Clova (virtual assistant)

Clova is an intelligent personal assistant for Android and iOS operating systems developed by Naver Corporation and Line Corporation (a subsidiary of Naver). Virtual assistant and Clova (virtual assistant) are virtual assistants.

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Colloquis

Colloquis, previously known as ActiveBuddy and Conversagent, was a company that created conversation-based interactive agents originally distributed via instant messaging platforms.

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Compound annual growth rate

Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is a business, economics and investing term representing the mean annualized growth rate for compounding values over a given time period.

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Computer facial animation

Computer facial animation is primarily an area of computer graphics that encapsulates methods and techniques for generating and animating images or models of a character face.

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Conversational commerce

Conversational commerce is e-commerce done via various means of conversation (live support on e-commerce Web sites, online chat using messaging apps, chatbots on messaging apps or websites, voice assistants) and using technology such as: speech recognition, speaker recognition (voice biometrics), natural language processing and artificial intelligence.

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Conversational user interface

A conversational user interface (CUI) is a user interface for computers that emulates a conversation with a real human.

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Conversica

Conversica is a US-based cloud software technology company, headquartered in San Mateo, California, that provides two-way AI-driven conversational software and a suite of Intelligent Virtual Assistants for businesses to engage customers via email, chat, and SMS.

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Corporate spin-off

A corporate spin-off, also known as a spin-out, or starburst or hive-off, is a type of corporate action where a company "splits off" a section as a separate business or creates a second incarnation, even if the first is still active.

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Cortana (virtual assistant)

Cortana was a virtual assistant developed by Microsoft that used the Bing search engine to perform tasks such as setting reminders and answering questions for users. Virtual assistant and Cortana (virtual assistant) are virtual assistants.

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DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

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Dialogflow

Dialogflow is a natural language understanding platform used to design and integrate a conversational user interface into mobile apps, web applications, devices, bots, interactive voice response systems and related uses.

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Digital image processing

Digital image processing is the use of a digital computer to process digital images through an algorithm.

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Domino's

Domino's Pizza, Inc., commonly referred to as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960.

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking

Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS) is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired in turn by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Nuance Communications, and Microsoft.

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E-commerce

E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet.

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In news media and social media, an echo chamber is an environment or ecosystem in which participants encounter beliefs that amplify or reinforce their preexisting beliefs by communication and repetition inside a closed system and insulated from rebuttal.

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EGain

eGain Corporation (formerly known as eGain Communications Corporation) is a cloud-based software company with its headquarters at Sunnyvale, California.

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ELIZA

ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed from 1964 to 1967 at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum. Virtual assistant and ELIZA are chatbots.

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ELIZA effect

In computer science, the ELIZA effect is a tendency to project human traits — such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy — onto rudimentary computer programs having a textual interface.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.

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Embodied agent

In artificial intelligence, an embodied agent, also sometimes referred to as an interface agent, is an intelligent agent that interacts with the environment through a physical body within that environment.

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Evi (software)

Evi (formerly True Knowledge) is a technology company in Cambridge, England, founded by William Tunstall-Pedoe, The Guardian (newspaper).

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Expert system

In artificial intelligence (AI), an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fake news

Fake news or information disorder is false or misleading information (misinformation, including disinformation, propaganda, and hoaxes) presented as news.

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Filter bubble

A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolationTechnopedia,, Retrieved October 10, 2017, "....A filter bubble is the intellectual isolation, that can occur when websites make use of algorithms to selectively assume the information a user would want to see, and then give information to the user according to this assumption...

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Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Friendly artificial intelligence

Friendly artificial intelligence (also friendly AI or FAI) is hypothetical artificial general intelligence (AGI) that would have a positive (benign) effect on humanity or at least align with human interests or contribute to fostering the improvement of the human species.

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Generative artificial intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI, GenAI, or GAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, videos, or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Google Assistant

The Google Assistant is a virtual assistant software application developed by Google that is primarily available on mobile and home automation devices. Virtual assistant and Google Assistant are virtual assistants.

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Google Lens

Google Lens is an image recognition technology developed by Google, designed to bring up relevant information related to objects it identifies using visual analysis based on a neural network.

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Google Now

Google Now was a feature of Google Search of the Google app for Android and iOS. Virtual assistant and Google Now are virtual assistants.

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HDMI

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.

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A hidden Markov model (HMM) is a Markov model in which the observations are dependent on a latent (or "hidden") Markov process (referred to as X). An HMM requires that there be an observable process Y whose outcomes depend on the outcomes of X in a known way.

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Home network

A home network or home area network (HAN) is a type of computer network that facilitates communication among devices within the close vicinity of a home.

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HomePod

The HomePod is a series of smart speakers developed by Apple.

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Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in Bantian, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong.

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Human–computer interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI) is research in the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and computers.

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Hybrid intelligent system

Hybrid intelligent system denotes a software system which employs, in parallel, a combination of methods and techniques from artificial intelligence subfields, such as.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IBM Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.

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IBM Shoebox

The IBM Shoebox was a 1961 IBM computer that was able to perform mathematical functions and provide speech recognition.

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IBM Simon

The IBM Simon Personal Communicator (simply known as IBM Simon) is a handheld, touchscreen PDA designed by International Business Machines (IBM), and manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric.

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IBM Watson

IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. Virtual assistant and IBM Watson are virtual assistants.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Instant messaging

Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.

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Intelligent agent

In intelligence and artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is an agent acting in an intelligent manner.

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Interactions Corporation

Interactions LLC is a privately held technology company that builds and delivers hosted Virtual Assistant applications that enable businesses to deliver automated natural language communications for enterprise customer care.

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Interactive voice response

Interactive voice response (IVR) is a technology that allows telephone users to interact with a computer-operated telephone system through the use of voice and DTMF tones input with a keypad.

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Internet of things

The Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.

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IPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.

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IPhone 4s

The is a smartphone that was designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the fifth generation of the iPhone, succeeding the iPhone 4 and preceding the iPhone 5.

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Joseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German American computer scientist and a professor at MIT.

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Knowledge Navigator

Coined in 1987, the term Knowledge Navigator described a future computing system and how people might use it to navigate worlds of knowledge.

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Labeled data

Labeled data is a group of samples that have been tagged with one or more labels.

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LaMDA

LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a family of conversational large language models developed by Google. Virtual assistant and LaMDA are chatbots.

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Lernout & Hauspie

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) was a Belgium-based speech recognition technology company, founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, that went bankrupt in 2001 because of a fraud engineered by the management.

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M (virtual assistant)

M was a virtual assistant by Facebook, first announced in August 2015, that claimed to automatically complete tasks for users, such as purchase items, arrange gift deliveries, reserve restaurant tables, and arrange travel. Virtual assistant and m (virtual assistant) are virtual assistants.

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Machine learning

Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

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Messenger (software)

Messenger, also known as Facebook Messenger, is an American proprietary instant messaging service developed by Meta Platforms.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Microwork

Microwork is a series of many small tasks which together comprise a large unified project, and it is completed by many people over the Internet.

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Minimum wage

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.

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Mobile operating system

A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices.

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MSN Messenger

MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft.

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Multi-agent system

A multi-agent system (MAS or "self-organized system") is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents.

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Mycroft (software)

Mycroft was a free and open-source software virtual assistant that uses a natural language user interface. Virtual assistant and Mycroft (software) are agent-based software and virtual assistants.

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Natural language processing

Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and artificial intelligence.

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Natural language understanding

Natural language understanding (NLU) or natural language interpretation (NLI) is a subset of natural language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension.

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Naver Corporation

The Naver Corporation is a South Korean internet conglomerate headquartered in Seongnam that operates the search engine Naver.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Neural network (machine learning)

In machine learning, a neural network (also artificial neural network or neural net, abbreviated ANN or NN) is a model inspired by the structure and function of biological neural networks in animal brains.

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Nuance Communications

Nuance Communications, Inc. is an American multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, that markets speech recognition and artificial intelligence software.

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Office Assistant

The Office Assistant is a discontinued intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character which interfaced with the Office help content.

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Online chat

Online chat is any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.

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Open-source hardware

Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement.

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Ovum Ltd.

Ovum, now part of Omdia, was an independent analyst and consultancy firm headquartered in London, specializing in global coverage of Telecommunications, Media and Technology.

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Pandora (service)

Pandora is a subscription-based music streaming service owned by the broadcasting corporation Sirius XM that is presently based in Oakland, California inside of the United States.

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Philips

Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891.

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Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Retail

Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.

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Samsung

Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.

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Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is currently the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012.

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Samsung Galaxy

Samsung Galaxy (stylized as SΛMSUNG Galaxy since 2015 (except Japan where it omits the Samsung branding), previously stylized as Samsung GALAXY; abbreviated as SG) is a series of computing and Android mobile computing devices that are designed, manufactured and marketed by Samsung Electronics since 29 June 2009.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is an Android-based smartphone phablet designed, developed, produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics.

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Samsung Galaxy S8

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and Samsung Galaxy S8+ are Android smartphones produced by Samsung Electronics as the eighth generation of the Samsung Galaxy S series.

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Sick leave

Sick leave (or paid sick days or sick pay) is paid time off from work that workers can use to stay home to address their health needs without losing pay.

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SILVIA

Symbolically Isolated Linguistically Variable Intelligence Algorithms (SILVIA) is a core platform technology developed by Cognitive Code. Virtual assistant and SILVIA are virtual assistants.

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Simulation hypothesis

The simulation hypothesis proposes that what sentient beings experience as the world is actually a simulated reality, such as a computer simulation in which humans themselves are constructs.

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Siri

Siri is the digital assistant that is part of Apple Inc.'s iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, audioOS, and visionOS operating systems. Virtual assistant and Siri are virtual assistants.

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SmarterChild

SmarterChild was a chatbot available on AOL Instant Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (previously MSN Messenger) networks. Virtual assistant and SmarterChild are chatbots.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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SMS

Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems.

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A social bot, also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media.

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The social data revolution is the shift in human communication patterns towards increased personal information sharing and its related implications, made possible by the rise of social networks in the early 2000s.

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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Software agent

In computer science, a software agent is a computer program that acts for a user or another program in a relationship of agency. Virtual assistant and software agent are agent-based software.

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Software bot

A software bot is a type of software agent in the service of software project management and software engineering.

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Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.

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SRI International

SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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Tencent

Tencent Holdings Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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Virtual assistant privacy

Virtual assistants are software technology that assist users complete various tasks. Virtual assistant and Virtual assistant privacy are virtual assistants.

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Viv (software)

Viv is a discontinued intelligent personal assistant created by the developers of Siri. Virtual assistant and Viv (software) are virtual assistants.

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Wearable computer

A wearable computer, also known as a body-borne computer, is a computing device worn on the body.

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Website

A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

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WeChat

WeChat or Weixin in Chinese is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 with over 1 billion monthly active users. WeChat has been described as China's "app for everything" and a super-app because of its wide range of functions.

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WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.

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Wizard (software)

A software wizard or setup assistant or multi-step form is a user interface that leads a user through a sequence of small steps, like a dialog box to configure a program for the first time.

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Words per minute

Words per minute, commonly abbreviated as WPM (sometimes lowercased as wpm), is a measure of words processed in a minute, often used as a measurement of the speed of typing, reading or Morse code sending and receiving.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.

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Xiaowei

Xiaowei is a virtual assistant from Tencent, the developer of WeChat. Virtual assistant and Xiaowei are virtual assistants.

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Yandex

Yandex LLC (p) is a Russian multinational technology company providing Internet-related products and services, including an Internet search engine called Yandex Search, launched in 1997, information services, e-commerce, transportation, maps and navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.

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24/7 service

In commerce and industry, 24/7 or 24-7 service (usually pronounced "twenty-four seven") is service that is available at any time and usually, every day.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_assistant

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