Smart assistants like Google Assistant, Amazon's Alexa, and Apple's Siri are getting better and ... [+] better. But what are the key differences driving the Google, Amazon, and Apple in developing smart digital assistants? “I think it’s Google Assistant, just by a nose probably over Amazon Alexa right now,” Jackson says in answer to a question about which assistant is smartest. But it’s worth noting that open source software is at the heart of billions of devices today: Mac OS X is built on an open source UNIX variant and so, by extension is iOS, the operating system. Each has a huge number of proprietary functionalities built on top of those open source roots, of course, but most of the devices on the planet run open source operating systems.

Source: Forbes August 08, 2020 05:03 UTC