Cortana – An (AI) artificial intelligence with personality:
Ladies and gentleman meet Cortana a digital assistant with style and personality of her own. You may recognize the featured image of Cortana as the (AI) from Halo – which is correct. The Windows Phone division has combine the character traits of Cortana with the power of Bing to create this unique innovation called Cortana.
Microsoft officially introduced Cortana just over two months ago during the 2014 Windows Build conference, along with an awesome menu of eco-system enhancements. (Please Note): the keynote is lengthy but worth every minute.
As you can see from the promo video and keynote, Cortana separates herself from the bunch with personality and the power to get to know you like an actual assistant would.
Just like an office assistant Cortana learns your habits and personal preference as you interact with her day to day. Cortana can take notes while you talk and deliberate; she can also think ahead based off you incoming text, emails, reservations, flight itinerary and reminders. Since this is Windows Phone first official digital assistance Cortana is still in beta mode for now; but I must say even in beta she performs if not better, right on point with today’s smartphone digital assistants.
Check out a few consumer reviews to see some real time comparisons of Cortana side by side with a few competitor devices. Now granted these are personal videos from various sources so prepare yourself for some biasness, but keep your focus on how Cortana stacks up while still in beta mode.
Cortana is coming soon to the family of Windows Phone users; the new rollout of WP8.1 is amazing and Cortana makes it even better with voice features to control your apps as well as amplify your smartphone experience like no other.
After seeing and experiencing Cortana on the Windows Phone a lot of developers have started to expand Cortana beyond the smartphone platform.
The possibilities of Cortana as an (AI) has sparked development in the entire Windows ecosystem; with the power of cloud Microsoft can position Cortana to be the first (AI) across all platforms. Can you imagine being able to really immerse yourself into full conversation, dialogues and spoken commands to your PC’s, TV, car, etc… The possibilities are endless when you think about it, I call this the “Cortana Effect” and I can hardly wait to see what Team Microsoft does in the coming months with Cortana.
To conclude my blog post for today I’ve added one more video below from members of the Windows Team, introducing Cortana and sharing some of her awesome abilities – please enjoy!
“Until next time – Stay Powered by Windows” _________________________________________________________________________________________________ By: Toran Lacy | @TWindows_
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