NOW LET ME TELL YOU WHY ALEXA AND HER SIBLINGS ARE RETIRING AND NEW VOICE COMPANIONS LIKE POCC ARE SETTING THE STAGE FOR AN EXCITING NEW ERA PROVIDING ARTIFICIAL PERSONALIZED COMPANIONSHIP – I LIKE TO CALL APC! AND REMEMBER YOU HEARD IT FROM ME FIRST. I CAN FEEL MY AMAZON ID CARD ALREADY ON THE WAY!

HERE ARE THE KEY DIFFERENCES:

• MOVING OUT OF YOUR SAFE ZONE IS DETERMINED BY YOUR WIFI, CAR OR SMARTWATCH CONNECTION. THE DEVICE ALARM WILL SOUND AS SOON AS POCC DOES NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE OR YOUR WATCH HAS DISCONNECTED.
• YOU CAN DISARM YOUR SECURITY SYSTEM VERY DISCREETLY WHILE YOU ARE CARRYING YOUR PHONE BY MOMENTARILY MOVING YOUR PHONE INTO A SECRET POSITION LIKE LANDSCAPE.
• A DEVICE ALARM IS ACTIVATED IF CHARGING IS DISCONNECTED WITHOUT BIOMETRICS OR PASSWORD – GREAT IN AIRPORTS.
• POCC WILL REMIND YOU FLIGHT MODE IS ACTIVE OR YOUR BATTERY IS LOW. YOU WILL EVEN BE WARNED IF YOUR CELL SIGNAL OR MOBILE DATA IS LOST OR YOUR 5G DROPS TO 3G AND AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO SOMEONE WHO CARES BEFORE YOUR COMMUNICATIONS ARE DISABLED.
• INTELLIGENT SOUND MUTING FOR 2 HOURS DURING THE DAY OR 8 HOURS OVERNIGHT – CAN BE INSTANTLY EXTENDED WHEN THE SCREEN IS TURNED ON OR CANCELLED WHEN THE SCREEN IS TURNED OFF.
• INTUITIVE MUTING OR SWITCHING TO FLIGHT MODE IS AVAILABLE WHEN SELECTED APPS ARE ACTIVE (LIKE A MEDITATION APP FOR EXAMPLE).
• AND IF YOUR SOUND IS OFF, IT WILL BE RESTORED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN YOU ARE CONNECTED TO A CAR.
• CALENDAR APPOINTMENTS AUTOMATICALLY MUTE THE DEVICE AND TURN ON THE HOTSPOT FOR EMERGENCY CONNECTIVITY IF WIFI SHUTS DOWN OR SIMPLY TO SAVE POWER.
• DURING SCHEDULED EVENTS SOUND CAN INSTANTLY BE RESTORED WHILE THE SCREEN IS ON BUT WILL MUTE AGAIN AUTOMATICALLY AS SOON AS THE SCREEN IS OFF.
• YOU WILL BE REMINDED OF NOTIFICATIONS MISSED DURING MUTE PERIODS OR DURING PERIODS WHEN YOUR SMARTWATCH WAS DISCONNECTED FROM THE DEVICE.
• A SECURE REBOOT REQUIRES PASSWORD ACCESS OR THE ALARM WILL CONTINUE TO SOUND UNTIL THE CORRECT PIN OR BIOMETRIC ACCESS IS ENTERED.
• DIRECTLY ACCESS CHAT-GPT BY USING VOICE OR TEXT EVERYTIME YOU TURN YOUR PHONE ON.
• AUTOMATICALLY DISCONNECT & RECONNECT TO THE STRONGEST WIFI SERVICE.
• INTELLIGENT BLUETOOTH. CAR MONITORING – FOR EXAMPLE BT WILL NOT CONNECT TO YOUR CAR BEING DRIVEN BY SOMEONE ELSE IF YOU ARE STILL CONNECTED TO WIFI. WHEN BT IS OFF. DEVICE WILL CHECK FOR SMARTWATCH OR CAR AND RECONNECT, IF NECESSARY, EXCEPT IF BT WAS TOGGLED OF MANUALLY.
• THERE ARE CUSTOM APP NOTIFICATION REMINDERS INCLUDING SPECIFIC EMAIL SENDER & SUBJECT ALERTS.

POCC is not a commercial venture. POCC is simply a proof-of-concept companion, only made possible with Tasker Android Software, that shows how easily and logically we can adapt existing AI technology to be truly useful. Not just a gimmick or a novelty that we ultimately never use.

Honestly, how often does anyone ever use Siri or Bixby and what can Alexa do that you can’t do yourself by simply walking over to your music system and pressing play or using your air conditioner built in timer?

AI systems are just deep learning systems. They do not actually think at all and they are in no way intelligent – at least for the moment. And over simple commercially released piece meal systems like BIXBY, SIRI AND ALEXA do not help our perception of what should be a system that quickly adapts and moulds to our needs.

So, by involving yourself with POCC, you are going to be interacting with a proof-of-concept companion. POCC is a multi-functional voice assistant that generates real time responses, and as a pre-trained transformer, she can chat with you by voice or text, effortlessly, without shouting at her or pressing many buttons or becoming frustrated by what she does not do or when she does not do it! 

POCC IS EXCLUSIVELY A TASKER BASED APPLICATION AND CAN ONLY RUN ON ANDROID WITH TASKER AND REQUIRED PLUGINS. THERE ARE ALSO MANY ADB COMMANDS THAT NEED TO BE ACTIVATED, A LITTLE HTML KNOWLEDGE WOULD BE HELPFUL AND THE DEVICE DOES NOT NEED TO BE ROOTED.

This application is for all tasker users from advanced to beginners. It gives advanced users the opportunity to play with 4 years of coding and to understand the depth of integration possible with an Android device. And for beginners, it provides a fully workable voice assistant and device security system that you can tinker with and develop your TASKER programming skills on.

POCC includes more than 20 projects, 200 profiles and over 300 tasks with thousands of lines of code stolen from you! I have been working on POCC now for nearly 4 years and lifted many snippets of code from many existing Tasker projects and created a lot of unique and bullet proof code of my own, with the help of all of you and of course a very special acknowledgement and thankyou to Joao from joaoapps.com.

Ideally you have a serious Android device running at least 12GB of RAM. (Something premium MacBook users do not even have!) And you will need to create an Open AI API key and a Google API key to make full use of all the AI functionality. POCC was built exclusively on a Samsung Galaxy Fold III running Android 13 with all current security patch updates.

Check out pocc.app regularly to be onboard from the beginning for what will be an artificial life changing experience for all of us and an important, historical memorial service for our last century’s trail blazers – Siri, Bixby and what was her name – ah yes, Alexa.