10 Smart Assistants

Alphabet-In this chapter, we’ll look at a common household use of ML: smart assistants like Siri, Alexa, or Google Home that can do simple jobs for you when you ask, like set an alarm, start a timer, or play some music.

Smart assistants are ML systems trained to recognize the meaning of text. You’ve seen that you can train a computer so that when you give it some writing, the computer can recognize what you’re trying to say. And if a computer can understand what you mean, it can understand what you’re asking it to do.

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