Viv: An intelligent, newly upgraded assistant

Absrtact: In 2011, Apple released iOS 5 o'clock Artificial Intelligence personal assistant Siri has sparked a public boom, but when people realize that their AI level is actually quite limited, the fever has gone down. I don't believe you.

2011, Apple released iOS 5 o'clock AI personal assistant Siri has sparked a popular use, but when people understand that the degree of artificial intelligence is actually quite limited, the heat has been a fever. I don't believe you. There are still a few iOS users still using Siri. But after leaving Apple, Siri's two founders are now starting a new startup, a start-up called Viv Labs, ready to build an intelligent, newly upgraded assistant: Viv, which understands complex sentences, learns from the user's use of it, and helps accomplish things. That's what iphone users think of Siri.

According to the introduction of Wired magazine, Viv can connect to other applications and services to complete booking, playing, looking for information and many other things. But what's even better is that it can even do something without programming. This intelligence is designed to keep learning-all Viv instances will connect to the same brain on top of the cloud, accumulating what is learned from individual users and strengthening their intelligence. The AI is said to have been able to accurately handle complex flight requests, such as:

Book me a ticket to the cheapest flight from San Francisco to Charles de Gaulle Airport July 2, back to the next Monday.

In addition to booking tickets, Viv can answer "what is the population of Lincoln's birthplace" like the ambitious perceptual programming that Stephen Wolfram to build? "Such a question. You told him, "On my way to my brother's house, I have to buy some wine with lasagna." "It can be obeyed."

The key is to correct the sentence and the composition and grammar analysis, although from a human point of view is not difficult to understand, but at present, most of the intelligent personal assistant has not been able to do. But it is not clear whether Viv needs Third-party Developer Support or that it can access other apps on its own.

Viv was founded jointly by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham. The top two were the founders of Siri, who was also an early member of the Siri team. The trio is not going to sell to an exclusive company, but hopes it will appear on more devices, including mobile phones, PCs and television.

Of course, the wired feature does not reveal any more specifics, such as when Viv is released, how the actual effect is, and so on. And given the crowd's high expectations of Siri, they still need more proof to convince the public. For Chinese users, Viv can understand complex sentences? First after the Chinese six, others do not say, the following simple question I do not know whether it can answer well:

"Xiaoming, go, snowball." "" Roll!!! ”

Excuse me, xiaoming in the end roll not snowball?