Samsung Research Institute in India preparing Bixby for IoT home devices

As tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple integrate their voice-enabled digital assistants into more devices, Samsung, led by its R&D Institute in India, is busy infusing Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its virtual assistant Bixby for a harmonised Internet of Things (IoT) experience at home. After smartphones, Samsung aims to make all its home appliance products "smart" by 2020 -- a year which, according to Gartner, will see nearly 20 billion connected devices. Bixby is the next frontier in AI that will help users speak to their refrigerators, TVs, washing machines, dishwashers, ovens and what not. "We are already doing 30-40 per cent of AI-based activities -- training deep neural networks for vision, voice and text -- at our place. "Voice is the next enabler.