Marilyn Thipthorpe
Skype has just decided to make your life a whole lot easier. The famous video chatting app is taking its features to a whole new level with its intelligence or rather artificial intelligence assistance.
At a recent conference the Skype Group Program Manager, Lilian Rincon, showed off a prototype app of the new feature that Skype will be providing.
Between all the robot assistants and Cortana, AI can now help you with booking your trips, ordering pizza, shopping, and even scheduling you life and events. From now on Skype will provide you with automatic transcripts of all your video messages, so that if a friend sends you a message and you aren’t able to listen to it at the moment you can read it. Another function is that when you are chatting with your friends, Cortana will automatically underline certain words and phrases which you can tap on to get access to further information on the topic.
It can even interact with these companies to have products delivered to the correct address and so on. In these cases you will not be dealing directly with any shopping bots but rather with Cotana who will relay your needs to the bot. If you want to plan a trip Cortana will act as your manager and introduce you or rather your information to the hotels bots so to facilitate a faster and easier booking process.
Cortana will even save this data so as to use it on any other websites you might be using for bookings. The virtual assistant will even help you find friends you can connect way or stay with it in the area.
Robots and Artificial Intelligence units are all set to take over the virtual world, and so Skype is taking a step in that very direction to keep in time with the future.