When life gets chaotic, it can be convenient to have all your smart home devices operating on the same wavelength. Achieving this sort of harmony sometimes requires a hub to consolidate the myriad gadgets in your house. But not everyone needs a dedicated smart hub to make their setup run smoothly. A smart speaker like the Amazon Echo or the Google Home can serve a similar purpose, with each device's respective apps acting as central command. Manufacturers have even begun bundling hubs into other devices like security systems and mesh WiFi routers, making home automation simpler for beginners.

The virtual personal assistant is romanticized in utopian portrayals of the future from The Jetsons to Star Trek. It's the cultured, disembodied voice at humanity's beck and call, eager and willing to do any number of menial tasks. In its early real-world implementations, a virtual receptionist directed customers ('To hear more menu options, press 9'). It wasn't until 2011 that Apple released Siri and the public had its first interactions with a commercially viable, dynamic personal assistant. Since Siri's debut with the release of the iPhone 4S, Apple's massive customer base has only gotten larger; the company estimates that more than 700 million iPhones are currently in use worldwide. Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana debuted in 2014; Google Assistant followed in 2016. IT research firm Gartner predicts that many touch-required tasks on mobile apps will become voice activated within the next several years.

The Google Assistant is more than just the virtual aid that lives inside the Google Home family of smart speakers. It's a search engine, a companion, a home controller, and an automated reminder system all rolled into one. It's not just available through a smart speaker either--you can get the Google Assistant on your smartphone, inside the Allo chat app, or through another device, like this refrigerator from LG. Isn't the future neat? If you've got Google Assistant on the brain, however, chances are you're also thinking about how to take advantage of it through the Google Home. The smart speaker hasn't been around for long; it reached the market since late 2016, when it was initially launched with half of its current functionality in time to compete with Amazon's Echo speaker sales that holiday season. Now, however, the Google Home's feature set has grown and expanded to include a long list of compatible products and services.

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Apple has been on a hiring spree and John Giannandrea, Google's former head of search and artificial intelligence has recently joined Apple as the head of AI department. Bloomberg reports that Apple has hired Jon McCormack, former Amazon CTO as vice president for a software role. McCormack has also worked at Google as an executive in the Advanced Technology and Products group and at HP where he was the global head of software. The reports aren't that clear but Apple told Bloomberg that it has hired the former Amazon CTO. McCormack has recently changed his title on LinkedIn.

Looks like a new technology is going to give Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and all other digital assistants a run for their money. A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a wearable device that can read its wearer's mind. Earlier this week, MIT Media Lab published a YouTube video that introduces a device called AlterEgo. The device is worn around the right ear and it has a tail of some sort that extends all the way to the jaw area. The beauty of the system is it allows the user to converse with it without talking because communication takes place in the mind.

To Stitch Fix's "hybrid design" tool, fashion design is a puzzle work of 30 to 80 pieces. On the website of online personal shopping service Stitch Fix, the company features a customer review that reads, "I love that my stylist listens to my feedback. The personal note included in my Fix shows how much pride she takes in serving each client." Stitch Fix's personal stylist is the best of its kind. Indeed, few stylists in the industry has achieved the same level of success at outfit pairing and shopping recommendation.

Thinking of Amazon Alexa for business will bring voice enabled artificial intelligence and the power of the cloud to businesses large and small. Amazon has launched a new effort to accelerate the use of Alexa in the workplace, including empowering the Alexa virtual assistant to help employees do things like order supplies, pull together meetings, book conference rooms, tap into corporate data as well as manage all the other functions the current Alexa can. The most powerful feature might be the ability of business users to create custom skills that leverage the data and applications of the workforce. This is new territory for Amazon, but they are wading in quickly, building partnerships with enterprise IT firms like Concur Solutions, SAP SuccessFactors, and Salesforce. So now you can ask Alexa things like "Tell me the list of opportunities for the first quarter".

It's hard to remember the days when artificial intelligence seemed like an intangible, futuristic concept. This has been decades in the making, however, and the past 90 years have seen both renaissances and winters for the field of study. At present, AI is launching a persistent infiltration into our personal lives with the rise of self-driving cars and intelligent personal assistants. In the enterprise, we likewise see AI rearing its head in adaptive marketing and cybersecurity. The rise of AI is exciting, but people often throw the term around in an attempt to win buzzword bingo, rather than to accurately reflect technological capabilities.

Apple has done pretty well for itself these last few years. It's got cash in the bank, healthy revenue, and it still sets the bar for what a modern smartphone should look like. But while the iPhone is singularly important, both to Apple and to the category of devices it's inspired over the last decade, technology companies are now jockeying to usher in the next wave of personal computing. The consensus is artificial intelligence is going to be the key differentiator, with every device--whether its a lightbulb or a laptop--capable of speaking to each other and making decisions to suit their owners. Big tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are saying that they're now "AI-first companies." Artificial intelligence research and implementation is dominated by Google.