I’ll be frank. I have a very poor opinion of Siri , the virtual assistant Apple
It may be because he can not speak with my accent a mix of English Cambridge with London- while wizard Google does well.
Maybe because when I asked “what is the marker of Cambridge United?” referring to the football team second division of that name, the results led me to page of the University of Cambridge in Wikipedia.
Or maybe, since Apple integrate it into their mobile devices five years ago, not really has become a fundamental part of our daily lives.
Some argue me. But I ask you: if Siri suddenly disappeared, the you miss really
It turns out that those who originally created are not very happy with their evolution
in a story published recently in the Washington Post , they said his vision is not “aligned” with Steve Jobs. And there was only one possible winner in this situation.
So they left, leaving behind Siri, but taking hoping to work on something they already knew to create something new . Something better.
That product, which was released this week in New York, is Viv.
Global Brain
the company calls it “the global brain”. And his secret formula is a mixture including an alliance with popular services and a unique way of understanding human questions.
app will begin operating towards the end of the year.
on stage the event TechCrunch Disrupt technology, Kittalus showed he could ask Viv that “will send Adam 20 coconuts ( pelas , clubs , lettuces or any other slang word used in your country to refer to money, in this case, US dollars) for the drinks last night “and it was integrated with the application for payments Venmo and sent the money quickly.
also I tested with complex sentences, like asking if it was raining in Seattle on Thursday, three weeks ago.
Viv is integrated with things like flower sales and Uber and other services we have already seen linked to similar applications, most recently the Messenger of Facebook.
autocoding
But I’ve seen demonstrations controlled personal assistants on stage nauseum.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook … All are pursuing the same goals. By now the culmination of all this research into assistants seems to be the ability to check the weather forecast and order food .
If, as declared the head of Microsoft Satya Nadela , the bots have to take the place of the my , then have to be better than these.
for now, beyond the great demonstrations, we have not seen these promises to fruition in the real world.
this is where Viv could be highlighted.
Siri-and other attending members rely too heavily on actions precoded , argues the team behind Vivi. If you do a completely random and complex question, you will find it difficult to decode.
Kittlaus showed how Viv generates its own programs almost instantly from keywords and information points . He said this means that Viv can grow rapidly, adapting to what users launch it, instead of relying on what has been programmed in advance.
According Kittlaus, Viv is a ” software to be written only “.
He knows nothing
The big question is whether this approach will be sufficient to compensate for a lack potentially fatal Viv: not know almost nothing about its users
Both Google and Facebook-and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft and Apple- can feed information about their mountains. users, which helps them make smarter AI mechanisms. At least in theory.
And Viv? She is on the starting line of a race that started years ago.
All that could change if buying one of those big companies . But its creators say they already rejected offers from Google and Facebook.
It seems that after what happened with Apple, Kittlaus and Cheyer are determined to walk alone .
That will be extremely difficult.
If you’re preguntandos why all these companies have intensified their efforts in this area, think about how you use your phone.
when we begin to understand the my did not mind having lots for each task .
But there are signs that suggest that are beginning to tire of have an app for news, one for purchases, another for social networking and so on.
that means the reality for these companies is that, unless you find yourself among the five applications more -or you are accessible through them-popular, there could be no reason to justify your existence.
the team behind Viv expects its logo dominated by the letter “V” become as recognizable as symbols wifi or bluetooth.
But for that to happen, you have to win a battle, having married the largest technology companies in the world.
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