When Amazon launched its Alexa voice assistant, it envisioned a computer platform that could do anything for you. A decade later, the company is still trying to build it. If you buy something from a ...
In April 2013, Google's head of search told Slate that the Star Trek computer was "the ideal that we're aiming to build." Thirteen years later I talk to one every day and it not only talks back, but ...
One of the Star Trek franchise's most distinguishing characteristics is the AI computer that occupies its Federation vessels. Since The Original Series, the actor tasked with providing that voice was ...