Samsung's New AI Assistant


There's going to be a new digital assistant on the scene. Samsung's new Galaxy S8 smartphone, due to launch next week, will feature a digital assistant named Bixby. It will have to compete with several other digital assistants including Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Microsoft's Cortana. It may have a fighting chance against them since it has a couple features that the others do not. Users will be able to switch between voice and touch commands, and there will be a button on the Galaxy S8 to access Bixby.

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