Microsoft’s Cortana could soon be more ‘human’

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assistants thanks to a multi-faceted approach to the intelligence at work behind the vocal interaction
Up until recently, voice assistants have worked primarily from responding to the task at hand, and only the task at hand, lacking the
means that when you want to book a hotel (the example used in the TC interview), your voice assistant would benefit from knowing whether
tailor a recommendation based on TripAdvisor reviews by people in a similar field.While this level of contextual intelligence obviously
leads to a far better user experience (and is far more like a conversation with a human assistant), it makes it overt how much information
be a "situationally appropriate" assistant that moves with you from work to home, and everywhere in-between, acting proactively to assist
imitates a human assistant, able to make calls on your behalf