

It’s worth mentioning that Google acquired artificial intelligence power house, DeepMind in 2014. When added to its rich voice command interface, Google Now comes across as a high expectation fulfilling personal assistant app. The interface implements a series of “Now” cards that provide the user with easy to access single page information snippets of popular and selectable items such as weather, traffic, upcoming appointments, flights, hotels, restaurants, car rentals and shipment statuses. Supported on iOS, Android and the desktop Google Now offers some of the most impressive personal assistant app capabilities. The search engine leader’s rival to Apple’s personal assistant offerings, Google Now, is the strongest Apple competitor with an impressive set of features. That will be the standard that we use to assess the best personal assistant apps for 2016. We can make a preliminary definition of a good assistant app as an Android/iPhone or web-based decision-making app that has software that does a good enough job of servicing our habits and predicting our needs that we find ourselves dependent upon it. In return we expect that the machine learning algorithms of the applications will make better or at least as good decisions as we do.
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Personal assistant apps are sought after for so many different types of purposes that it almost seems a cop out to say that what makes a good one depends on who is using it and what they are using it for.Īfter all, virtual assistant apps are tools that we install on our portable devices and that we delegate certain planning and decision-based activities to. What Makes a Good Personal Assistant App?
