In the past, 2017 was the year that the global smart home war started. Unexpectedly, Apple HomePod unexpectedly bounced the ticket and was not officially listed until February 9 this year. This made the war of smart speakers spread to 2018.
Since 2014, Amazon released the first generation of Echo, artificial intelligence and advanced learning technology has undergone tremendous changes, especially in the cognitive development, such as cloud recognition, image recognition, etc., but until the latest release of the Apple HomePod , Smart home function did not achieve a breakthrough.
Research institutes predict that a breakthrough in smart home in the future may come from 'emotions.' "Emotional AI systems and emotional computing technologies and data analysis capabilities will determine the acceptance of smart home products." Roberta Cozza, Director of Research at Gartner, an information technology research firm, First Financial reporter said.
Currently, AI is creating a number of disruptive forces that reshape the way human and personal electronic devices interact, and with the advent of the second wave, AI technology will add value to a growing number of customer experience scenarios.
Cozza predicts that as the AI is maturing, personal devices will know more about our emotional states than their loved ones by 2022. Emotional AI systems and emotional computing are giving everyday objects the ability to detect, analyze, process and respond to human emotions and emotions Ability to provide more accurate scene information and a more personalized experience. "She said, 'To keep up with this trend, technology vendors must integrate AI into all aspects of smart home devices, or face the risk of being marginalized. '
This means that in the future smart speakers will need to gradually shift to emotionally intelligent emotional robots.
Zhuang Hongbin, founder of Emotech, the British Emotional Robot Company, thinks the difference between a smart speaker and a smart robot is that the latter has a 'personality' and can interact with people. "The current smart home product is just a passive tool, for example, a smart speaker on the ground Was awakened, did not receive orders, it can only passively static in place. 'Zhuang Hongbin said.
In fact, the emotional robot was born a few years ago, and in 2014, SoftBand announced the launch of a cloud-based robotic Pepper with human feelings that could also be read out by judging human facial expressions and intonation 'Human emotions. As interaction with people increases, Pepper becomes more intelligent and more able to' read 'what the owner thinks, but the robot costs as much as $ 2,000. In 2016, Sony also announced that it is in the process of developing A robot that builds feelings with humans, but has not released any further news about the robot ever since.
The industry is still divided on whether artificial intelligence should have the same human capabilities, especially when robots have the same emotions and emotions as humans, skeptics fear that the mood could be abused. Bill Gates recently in New York In a speech, artificial intelligence can become a human friend.'Artificial intelligence can make mankind use less resources to create greater social benefits, 'he said.