How does Samsung's Bixby work?

La Samsung it seems to want to compete on a bit of everything, even in the field of virtual assistants. You've given a lot of fanfare about the arrival of Bixby, but there are some details that we all miss. When he arrives, how does it work ...

Without further delay, what are the news regarding the arrival of Bixby?

For the moment, the virtual assistant only arrived in America during the past month (it has been in Korea much earlier). Several and scattered updates have finally made this artificial intelligence available to all those who own a Galaxy S8 / S8 Plus. As for other countries (and us) Bixby is yet to arrive, on Samsung's mother site it is reported as “Available on Italian market only in English ".

Why is this system so complicated? Samsung can't create a virtual assistant? The point is this. Samsung didn't want to create a Siri or Cortana. He wanted to create something different, which almost never appeared on the net. In some ways, Samsung wanted to create a real one artificial intelligence, which can be based more locally than on the network, capable of operating even in the absence of a connection. Yes, Cortana or Siri (or the Google Assistant) can also work locally, but still with certain limitations.

What Bixby has to do, according to Samsung, is to work in a present but detached way from the network. Of course, not everything that is always said is 100% correct, especially given the long delays and still no attendant presence for most of the world.

In the meantime, what can we say about Bixby? The criticisms are quite serious. The AI, in addition to having taken a long time to get into business, still makes use of Google services to work (and there is already a dedicated assistant) and does not have a real ecosystem in which to rely (Unlike more solid competitors like Apple's Siri). Some users have also said that it responds slowly and at other times it activates itself.

As if that were not enough, Samsung has made it impossible to change the behavior of the dedicated Bixby key, so unless you have a particular change or an App that can prevent this behavior, the Bixby key will always remain assigned to the virtual intelligence itself. .

At the moment, therefore, there are no particular appreciations for Bixby, despite its numerous functions with which the program can answer our mobile phone and customize the various functions. Many recommend waiting for other updates or, better yet, waiting for Cortana to arrive in Italian on Android.

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