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Google has long been focused on artificial intelligence. Its Google Now and voice assistance projects have used AI to better the lives of users. The Google Home voice-based hardware unit brings its assistant to life, making traditional inputs and displays unnecessary. With just the power of your voice, you can interact with the device -- nothing else is needed.
The search giant has decided to take artificial intelligence to the maker community with a new initiative called AIY. This initiative (found here) will introduce open source AI projects to the public that makers can leverage in a simple way. Today, Google announces the first-ever AIY project. Called "Voice Kit," it is designed to work with a Raspberry Pi to create a voice-based virtual assistant. Please keep in mind that the Pi itself is not included, so you must bring your own. For this project, you can use a Pi 3 Model B, Pi 2, or Pi Zero. Want a Voice Kit? Here's how to get it. Heck, you might be getting one for free and you don't even know it.
Source: https://betanews.com/2017/05/04/google-open-source-raspberry-pi-diy-voice-kit/
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday May 08 2017, @09:16PM
I have tried Alexa and I'm also not impressed. It's good at... playing radio stations (but the IP radio will cut out often compared to an FM receiver).
Kudos on finding Alexa's "backdoor entry".
I used the generic term "AI". Real life sentient/sapient machine brain slavery earns the upgraded term "strong AI". Regular AI could mean a lot of things. It could mean that the Alexa/Siri of 2022 does a lot better than the current version, but falls decades short of being JARVIS "strong". As it is cloud-based, you *may* not need to buy new equipment to enjoy "smarter" performance. There's a version history for it somewhere.
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