Assistants

With voice assistants struggling, Home Assistant is launching a local alternative

With voice assistants struggling, Home Assistant is launching a local alternative

Enlarge / Home Assistant running on a Google Nest Hub, via a savage Chromecast hack. Native hardware like this would be nice. Are cloud-based voice assistants doomed? It seems like too dramatic a question to ask if you look at the current state of millions of Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple’s Siri users, but …

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AI assistants help developers produce insecure code

AI assistants help developers produce insecure code

Computer scientists at Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. In an article titled “Are users writing more insecure code with AI assistants?” Stanford boffins Neil Perry, Megha Srivastava, Deepak Kumar and Dan Boneh answer this question in …

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Experts Warn AI Assistants Are Affecting Children's Social Growth |  Digital trends

Experts Warn AI Assistants Are Affecting Children’s Social Growth | Digital trends

The likes of Google Assistant and Alexa have been the source of privacy concerns for some time now, but they continue to make inroads into millions of homes. But it seems that they could also have a negative impact on the growth of children with regard to their psychosocial development and the acquisition of basic …

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