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It's mostly marketing. It's been done before and this is just the latest attempt at it. It uses an array of beamforming microphones and noise cancellation so it can detect your voice while music is being played or from a distance. It fixes some of the main problems other voice recognition software has but I bet it still has the problem of not understanding what you're trying to say. Here's the product page in case you want to know more details about it or buy it. Like I said before, it's mostly marketing but there is some new technology being used and it does have a big name behind it though it probably won't change computing much.
Network Security
If you are talking about computer networks in offices and such, I'm not aware of current implementations. However it does seem reasonable that an AI would give you some powerful abilities in network security.
Could figure out when intrusions are happening and then be able to do something about it. Things like create a fake environment and allow the intruder to think it is real. If the government, then anything they try to retrieve could be bugged with malware that would silently give away information about the intruder such as location, other files they have, etc. If not the government then faking an environment may allow them to take fake files thinking they are real all the while alerting security after starting to log details about the intruder.
Could figure out if someone has been stealing files covertly. Admins can track who takes files and when and such but it is easy enough for people to covertly remove files without detection. An AI could provide a much better coverage for this type of file stealing activity.
Could do a better job at protecting against malware and viruses that aren’t currently in the malware/virus protection software that is installed. While not an AI, there is a corporate software that does some pretty fancy stuff similar to what an AI could to. Check them out: Bromium is an interesting anti-malware and anti-virus software that can do it's job without a giant library of what those viruses and malwares are. (video)
An AI could use a lot of heuristics in it’s detections of intrusive software behavior that a normal malware/virus protection wouldn’t notice. Like if certain files are being modified by different software other than is enacted from a user’s actions from a keyboard or mouse for instance. In general I believe that an AI network security agent would be a powerful ally for large computer networks. Hackers and malware is becoming much better.
Also with the advent of more hardware level hacks such as putting in various chips into circuit boards like was talked about in the Edward Snowden movie and social engineering, an AI would be able to notice changes in network behavior and user behavior. Google is already doing some neat things where if I log into my accounts from different devices it notifies me to make sure everything is ok. AI could extend that type of over watch behavior.
IoT (Internet of Things)
We have started to see more things happening in the connectivity of our devices in homes and offices. Things like Nest, Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, etc.
These devices use Natural Language Processing BUT have limitations in what they are capable of achieving. Some words work while others will not. The varied command recognition will increase over time.
It does seem likely that soon they will start employing their AI cloud systems to start connecting more and more wifi devices as more wifi devices become available using AI. However with narrow AI, you will always have limitations of what it is capable of doing as the scope is determined by what they have programmed it to understand and do.
It will be a while before you can have full on conversations that do not directly connect with utility type actions such as turning off things, changing the temperature of water, locking down your home, checking your bank account, etc. as that requires an AGI to actually comprehend and respond anywhere near reasonably.
Security (BONUS)
There has been a case that I've seen that uses AI to track people's behaviors in parking garages/office buildings so that it can know if someone is there that shouldn't be. It will only get better and be able to alert people to things like people trying to break into cars, rig explosives, commit crimes, etc. and will be able to use facial recognition to track them and such.
It may even be able to have a predictive behavior component so that it could prevent crimes before they happen in those areas by either putting out a loud sound, turning off all the lights, calling security/police, etc. There are even some robots now that are designed as partial security forces so that may be integrated into such a system for security guard type capabilities.
According to Amazon, the Echo is $180. You can get an LG G Watch for $90 or an Asus Zenwatch 2 for $130.
I got the Sony Smartwatch 3. It cost me around £110 about 5 months ago and now costs £90.