A talk about voice assistants, how to use them, privacy and security considerations and ideas on how to use them in a public library setting.

1. VOICE ASSISTANTS
YOUR NEW INVISIBLE FRIEND
WITH BOB FROM CREATION STATION

2. WHO ARE THEY?
• Alexa
• Cortana
• Siri
• Assistant/Home
• Bixbi
• Star Trek ‘computer’
• HAL

3. IS THIS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
• No
• Yes
• Deep Learning versus AI
• What is on your device versus what is in the cloud
• No
• Yes

4. WHERE DO THEY LIVE?
• Echo line
• Echo, Dot, Show, Tap, Look, Wand,
Spot
• Google Home
• Home, Mini, Max
• Homepod
Your
Phone

5. THEIR COUSINS
• “Alexa Enabled”
• Sonos
• Ford
• Countless new additions
• “Cortana Enabled”
• Invoke
• Tivo
• Roku

6. HOW TO IMPROVE THEM
• Skills/Aps
• Alexa 25,000+ skills
• Cortana 230+
• IFTTT
• Adding more devices (echo to echo)
• Adding smart devices - IoT

7. IOT – INTERNET OF THINGS
• Devices connect through Wi-Fi
• Sometimes BlueTooth
• Nest, Phillips Hue
• Apps and Apps and Apps
• Side track to network security

8. WHO KNOWS WHAT ABOUT WHO?
• When I say “where can I get pizza?” what do they show me?
• Who controls the results?
• Amazon uses Bing
• Google uses Google (duh)
• No one knows for Apple yet
• https://www.facebook.com/ScreenJunkies/videos/10155953204437403/

9. PRIVACY
• Privacy is dead……
• What can you control about what happens?
• Verify what you said, erase your recordings

10. QUESTIONS?
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