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Cortana: Microsoft released Cortana in 2014, a virtual
assistant similar to Siri. It is being deprecated in the
spring of 2023.

Amazon Alexa: In 2014 Amazon created Alexa, a home assistant
that is a smart speaker functioning as a personal assistant.

Sophia, a humanoid robot: In 2016, Hanson Robotics created a
humanoid named Sophia. She is also known to be the first robot citizen.

Google Home, a smart speaker: Google released Google Home in 2016.
It uses AI to act as a personal assistant helping the user by reminding
tasks, creating appointments and searching for information by voice.

Write the names of any two virtual assistants.
uiz Bee 1. ____________________________________________________

2. ____________________________________________________

Hashtag

#Xbox: A video game brand by Microsoft
#Sophia: First ever humanoid to get the citizenship of a country

REVISIT

▶ Intelligence can be defined as the mental capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.
▶ Artificial Intelligence or AI refers to the software technologies that give machines or robots the
intelligence to perform tasks generally performed by intelligent beings.
▶ John McCarthy was the first person to coin the term Artificial Intelligence in the DartMouth
Conference held in 1956.
▶ WABOT-2 was built at Waseda University in 1984.
▶ Asimo, Roomba, Google's driverless car, etc., were developed in 2000s.
▶ Sophia, Siri, Google Home, etc., were developed after 2010.

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