Last Wednesday the Google I / O 2016 keynote was held, where all the Google news for this year were announced. Where Google put special emphasis was on Google Assistant, its service to complete tasks and that uses the exceptional quality of voice recognition possessed by those in Mountain View.
Viv was also introduced by the inventors of Siri as another chatbot earlier this month, and this is when Microsoft doesn't want to be left behind in this race that has just started to present your own service. Those of Redmond have published the search for a professional to help them in this task.
The idea is use this bot in Bing so that it is able to respond to users through platforms such as Skype, Messenger, SMS, WhatsApp and Telegram. That job posting for an engineer to join the team for this project describes the bot as follows:
The agent does what a human assistant would do: directly helps user needs by automatically completing tasks. Users speak to the agent in a natural language and the agent responds in the same way to take all the information; once ready, it automatically performs the task for the user when connecting to services.
For example, the user would ask "make me a reservation for an Italian restaurant tonight", and the agent would respond with "for how many people?"; Finally would confirm the reservation and display the information of the restaurant that the user has selected.
Microsoft already he has a lot of work ahead, since in March it announced its Bot Framework, which is a platform for developers to create and integrate smart bots in their apps.
We'll see where it all ends and if Microsoft will be able to measure up to Google Assistant, a service that also uses the experience of this company in search engines, something vital to be able to correspond to the user with a natural chat.