Siri's creators will unveil their new AI bot on Monday
Shortly after being purchased by Apple, two of Siri's founders left
the company to begin creating yet another AI assistant. It's called Viv,
and The Washington Post reports that it'll be unveiled to the world on Monday.
A lot of companies are trying to build a better Siri
To make all of that work, Viv Labs is partnering with outside companies to let its AI tap into their services. GrubHub, Uber, Zocdoc, and SeatGuru are among Viv's 50-or-so launch partners, according to the Post. Through those services, you'll be able to ask Viv to call you a cab or order you food.
All of that sounds good — that's the dream of Siri, right? — but there's a lot of reason to be skeptical until Viv Labs shows its assistant in action. Viv's abilities sound a lot like what Amazon has been building out with Alexa; they also sound pretty similar to the chatbot functionality that Facebook announced for Messenger last month. There are already a ton of digital assistants trying to be the "good Siri," and we've seen one pretty good one already.
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