Personal assistants are ushering in the age of AI at home How the use of the voice is making machines smarter and humans more dependent.

Heck, you can even use it to migrate from a Home Assistant virtual machine to a container in case you want to downsize your setup. A word of caution: you’ll lose all the add-ons when you do so.

A stew of virtual assistants Google and Amazon are wrestling to be your smart home assistant, and companies like Apple and Microsoft aren't far behind. But you shouldn't commit to just one company.

Christina Jane became a virtual assistant as an undergraduate after working part time for Amazon. She continued after moving to Ghana for grad school.

Chatbots and virtual assistants are a visible form of AI (sdecoret/Shutterstock) Within this potentially lucrative landscape, the role of voice assisted services and technologies is likely to take an ...