{"id":187285,"date":"2024-04-12T20:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T01:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/voice-assistants-learn-the-art-of-small-talk"},"modified":"2024-04-12T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T01:24:25","slug":"voice-assistants-learn-the-art-of-small-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/voice-assistants-learn-the-art-of-small-talk","title":{"rendered":"Voice Assistants Learn the Art of Small Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/voice-assistants-learn-the-art-of-small-talk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voice assistants have already made significant strides in areas such as <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/connectedeconomy\/2022\/the-data-point-32-pct-consumers-right-at-home-with-digital-voice-controls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> smart home integration<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2024\/from-tutoring-to-test-reminders-virtual-assistants-hit-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> educational settings<\/a> and business applications. However, their current capabilities are limited by a lack of robust reasoning and planning abilities.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, just 7.8% of consumers believe voice technology is as smart and reliable as a real person today, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/study\/consumers-voice-assistant-economy-hands-free-technology-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> How Consumers Want to Live in the Voice Economy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice assistants have already made significant strides in areas such as smart home integration, educational settings and business applications. However, their current capabilities are limited by a lack of robust reasoning and planning abilities. In fact, just 7.8% of consumers believe voice technology is as smart and reliable as a real person today, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-education","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}