Researchers at MIT have developed a low-power chip specialized for automatic speech recognition that could result in a power savings of up to 99 percent. Although far from being perfect, Apple's Siri transformed how we perceive mobile artificial intelligence. Since then we've seen similar attempts from various companies – from the disastrous S-Voice to the most recent Google Assistant. In fact, 2017 is shaping up to be the year of AI: Android Wear 2.0 has Google's virtual assistant built in, Samsung is rumored to bring an improved AI assistant with the Galaxy S8, and IoT home devices are becoming more and more commonplace. However, these advanced virtual assistants rely on speech recognition, and often, it has to be always on in order to detect your command.