Artificial Intelligence
Viv, the soon-to-be-released AI assistant from the original team behind Apple's Siri, looks to release a virtual assistant that can actually learn about you and your needs. |
Robert Scoble recently posted about his visit to the artificial intelligence startup headquarters of Viv on Facebook. The firm, which was started by two of the origial co-founders of Siri, including Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, have decided to do it again, and this time they’re not holding anything back.
According to Scoble, Viv is a teachable personal assistant 'global brain' that’s about 6 months away from “prime time”.
"I don’t usually say your world is about to shift because of a startup but this one is about to do just that," claims Scoble.
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"I don’t usually say your world is about to shift because of a startup but this one is about to do just that." |
First it is teachable. Siri is not.
Second it can understand much more complex queries.
Third the back end is an amazing piece of artificial intelligence engineering.
Fourth you can add new APIs to it.
Fifth it can do multiple things in one query. "Take me to the pizza place which has the best Yelp rating within 10 minutes of me."
Sixth it knows a lot more about you than Siri does and you can teach it more (and control everything).
As you tell it what you want it writes its own program in 1/20th of a second: "cheapest flights to Sydney from SFO with exit row seats available" might be something you try.The Viv development team are confident that their next creation will eclipse their Siri work. Now the timing of the release of their much-anticipated digital assistant seems to be getting imminent, and we couldn't be more excited.
This is what I want in my car, my wearables, my home, and elsewhere.
SOURCE Robert Scoble
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