Viva, the sites creators show for the first time, a revolutionary new AI to the public

One of the key figures in the development of Siri, which became the iconic virtual assistant of the iPhone, showed Viv today. Dag Kittlaus has crossed the event stage TechCrunch Disrupt NYC giving the first demonstration to the public of what his new project is able to do. Viv is "intelligent interface for all" and, unlike other virtual assistants available on the square and focuses on interoperability with third-party services.

Viv is a virtual assistant that can answer complex requests and branched, and not just a simple dry applications. But it's not just a question and answer, as Viv wants to solve the real problems the same way as bots that Zuckerberg launched a few weeks ago on Facebook. During the demonstration, we report on video around the page, Kittlaus began with the usual questions of ritual on the climate, then put Viv more complex questions.

Among the questions: "There will be more than 70 ° F near to which no virtual assistant Golden Gate Bridge after 5 pm the day after tomorrow?", Can answer today. Despite the many variables of the query, Viv took only a few moments to provide an answer to his interlocutor. The strength of the new IA but are in less formal requests, as with various types of orders: similar to what happens with bots Messenger, Viv solves problems.

You can for example book a hotel, make payments, order flowers, all in less than a minute. What really makes Viv different than all other solutions is the desire of the development team to make it cross-platform. Viv does not only work on smartphones, and will not stop even to the media on the desktop. The new assistant wants to get it even within the home automation, in IoT gadgets and smart-home, where it can make a difference.

Viv could be an alternative to Alexa, the Amazon's assistant, with the difference that can run on any platform and accept any type of order. In addition, the software is capable of learning by experience: Viv does not handle requests only with predefined set of functions, but it has the ability to create programs from nothing to complete queries that go beyond the preset by developers. It is, on paper, something unique in the software category.

On the event stage everything went as hoped and Viv responded flawlessly to applications Kittlaus. However, as we have seen many times, servers based on artificial intelligence behave in everyday use in a manner certainly less accurate and reliable than they showed he can do during presentations. We will see how it will behave in the test Viv "real" everyday, but do not know when: the team has not in fact yet announced a release date for the mass audience.