Comparing Artificial Intelligence: Siri v/s Bixby

The world of smartphone virtual assistant has long been dominated by Apple’s Siri. Now we have some competition for it through its arch rival Samsung. Samsung S8 comes with a fully functional virtual assistant, which goes by the name Bixby. It is way better than Samsung’s S- voice that was available in a few older Samsung smartphones. Given below are a few key features of Bixby, and how it fares in comparison with Siri.

1. Button Activation – 

Unlike Siri, Bixby does not need voice activation, but can instead start operation with a press of a button. Once it is activated, you can task it with anything you wish to do on your smartphone. According to Samsung, this voice assistant has the potential to perform 15,000 different tasks, but that does not include sending an email.

2. Supports Augmented Reality - 

The Bixby Vision feature of the virtual assistant allows it to identify objects in real time. If you come across something interesting online, you can click a picture of the same and the mobile camera will be used to deliver its price online, reviews, as well as other similar recommendations. This kind of feature is present only in Google’s devices, apart from Samsung.

3. Native App Reminder Feature – 

The Bixby home allows the virtual assistant to give you reminders on the basis of the apps you make use of on a daily basis. This can include paying your rent, watching a saved video, setting an alarm, etc.  The reminder feature of Bixby is considered to be more robust and efficient as compared to siri, primarily because is resides in the native mobile apps, and learns from your usage of the apps.