Siri's original creators are launching a Siri killer (CNET News)
Siri's original creators are launching a Siri killer (CNET News)
2016-05-05
if you've ever used Siri or any other
voice assistant you know that the
usefulness of them is pretty limited so
the original creators of Siri want to
fix that viv is a virtual assistant with
the kind of artificial intelligence a
lot of the current voice assistants are
missing for instance if you wanted to
order a pizza
viv could handle all of the ordering for
you and it can get into the details like
toppings and pizza size all without ever
going to another app or calling Domino's
and unlike many of the current
assistants you can ask the questions in
a variety of ways that means you can
talk to it more like a human and less
like a robot viv is taking a cue from
Amazon Alexa and already works with a
lot of third-party services like uber
GrubHub and seek guru the only question
is when will actually be able to try it
right now you can't download it or buy
it and moves creators haven't yet
decided if they'll run it themselves or
sell it to another company in the
meantime if you want to get a pizza
you're going to have to pick up the
phone
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