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Google's AI is much smarter than Siri Google's artificial intelligence (AI) is much smarter than Apple's Siri, according to a report from three Chinese researchers.
The report, which aimed to compare the intelligence of various AI systems, found that in 2016, Google's AI had an IQ of 47.3, ahead of Chinese search engine Baidu (33), Microsoft's Bing (32), and Siri (24).
But while Google's AI leads the tech pack, it has a long way to go before it comes close to human intelligence. The average 6-year-old has an IQ of 55.5, according to the report.
BI Intelligence analyst Laurie Beaver has the full story.
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| | | Oracle introduced Blockchain Cloud Service at its OpenWorld conference on Monday, as the database giant works hard to make its cloud more competitive with IBM's and Microsoft's offerings. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Walmart has acquired New York City-based logistics startup Parcel for less than $10 million, a source told Recode. Parcel was founded in 2013, and previously raised $2 million from investors. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Consumers now expect retailers to have some form of an augmented reality (AR) experience, according to a report by DigitalBridge. Of the consumers surveyed, 20% said they expect retailers to have an AR tool now that iOS 11 has been released, while 49% say they expect retailers to launch AR features within the next six months. Read More → | | | | |
| | | PayPal and Mastercard are taking their strategic partnership fully global, announcing a "significant expansion" to Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa on Thursday. Previously, the firms had inked deals in the APAC region and the US. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Investment banking behemoth Goldman Sachs is considering introducing a new trading operation for Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Google announced a pair of new smart speakers and added a number of new capabilities for its smart home ecosystem, setting forward its vision for the connected home and the role of the voice assistant in it. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Whole Foods has already sold approximately $1.6 million worth of its private-label products through Amazon, just one month after its acquisition by the e-commerce titan. Read More → | | | | |
| | | Apple Music reached 30 million subscribers, up from 27 million in June, Billboard reports. The figure puts Apple Music at half the subscriber count of Spotify, which last reported 60 million paid subscribers in July. Read More → | | | | |
| | | One in five Domino's customers in the UK place voice-command orders through Amazon's virtual voice assistant, Alexa, instead of through Domino's one-click Easy Order option. Read More → | | | | |
| | | The increasingly dominant role smartphones are playing in users' lives has prompted the app market to surge. In 2016, total time spent in apps globally hit 1.6 trillion hours, up over 50% from the previous year, according to App Annie. Read More → | | | | |
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