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Google and Microsoft offer digital assistants on smartphones, called Google Now and Cortana, respectively, which have deep knowledge of their users’ habits and schedules. Amazon sells a stand-alone device Alexa that, among other things, plays music, reads books aloud and can help buy items through Amazon. On September 8 Baidu, a Chinese internet giant, announced its own digital agent, Duer. And recently Facebook announced that a concierge service, called M, would be available through its messaging app.

According to research firm Gartner, about 38 per cent of American consumers have used virtual-assistant services on their smartphones recently; by the end of 2016 an estimated two-thirds of consumers in developed markets will use them daily.

The Spanish company Adele Robots has launched a new project on Kickstarter, Fiona. Fiona creates a world where your electronics are an extension of your senses. The technology beyond Fiona is the platform with the same name (http://www.sparkingtogether.com).

Are you creating a chatbot or virtual assistant?  Do you want to integrate an artificial intelligence character into a game, virtual world, website or mobile app? Have you ever wanted to create your own totally unique custom bot character, as smart as Siri, Jeannie, ALICE or Mitsuku, but with a completely different personality? Where do you start?

The ALICE A.I. Foundation has released a totally new AIML Superbot Development Kit, making it easier than ever to create custom chatbots and mobile virtual assistants. Based on the popular AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) standard, the Superbot provides a pathway to rapidly building your bot’s knowledge base. The character you create can be run on a variety of AIML platforms including Pandorabots.

Tensator is committed to becoming the global leader in the management of the Customer Journey. With holographic projections of virtual boarding agents already greeting passengers at:
London Luton Airport, Birmingham Airport, Bristol Airport, Edinburgh Airport, Dubai Airport, and Frankfurt Airport, the global interest in sophisticatedly improved customer travel experience is growing.

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MyCyberTwin, a new generation of artificial intelligence technology, today announced the launch of its low cost Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) to the small-medium business (SMB) and developer market. The latest product offering is designed for businesses to quickly and efficiently deploy state-of-the-art chat solutions across their web and social media properties.  MyCyberTwin’s IVAs offer SMBs the ability to answer customer questions instantly and accurately, decrease staff costs, increase sales and customer engagement, and find out what customers are really thinking by capturing the analytics of the interaction.

Artificial Solutions announced today that one of its Teneo Virtual Assistants has been shortlisted as a 2011 finalist in the Best Use of Technology category, in the prestigious European Call Centre and Customer Service Awards. Emma, Telenor Sweden’s busiest customer service agent, answers nearly five thousand questions everyday on Telenor’s website.

Developed in response to Telenor’s rapidly growing network, a Scandinavian wide price war and a need to provide 24/7 online support, Emma answers all kinds of questions from mobile services to troubleshooting SIM card issues. As a Teneo Virtual Assistant, Emma uses the world’s most robust natural language interaction (NLI) engine that enables her to reason like a human using advanced linguistic and business rules to decide how best to respond a customer’s request. With each interaction Emma dynamically re-assesses content to understand what has changed and give the right answers.

We have released an upgrade to the AIML Superbot, a development kit that makes it easy for you to create a chat bot with its own unique and proprietary personality distinct from the ALICE bot.

Inf.net is a community of virtual talking characters (we call them “infs”). Users can create their own infs, design their appearance and then teach them and post on blogs, social networks and homepages. Infs are like chatbots but individual, customizable and look great