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Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri

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Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri

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Post by falaki »

I wonder if Samsung would ever put this on their Android Phones. I am confident it will not be able to compete with Google Now on the same device.

In addition to founders, Viv got a good number of early Siri engineers. From this and other hints I gather its internals are similar to first few versions of Siri. For example, they outsource the Speech component (something Apple still does for several languages). A consequence of that design is separating speech recognition from NLP, which makes it inherently more error-prone than Google Now.

Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri

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Post by itg »

choicewords wrote: post #5

Make AI startup, get acquired, quit, repeat

As long as the founder(s) know what they're doing. I've seen way too many AI startups with founders who don't even have the most basic ML knowledge but are doing it because it's the trend.

Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri

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Post by isaiahg »

falaki wrote: post #2

I wonder if Samsung would ever put this on their Android Phones. I am confident it will not be able to compete with Google Now on the same device. In addition to founders, Viv got a good number of early Siri engineers. From this and other hints I gather its internals are similar to first few versions of Siri. For example, they outsource the Speech component (something Apple still does for several languages). A conseq…

I imagine you'll be able to change AI much like keyboards. They'll have theirs default and most people won't bother changing it.

Re: Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri

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Post by jjcm »

I'm amazed that the founders didn't have some sort of non-compete agreement here.

Excited that it's a more extensible digital assistant though. I think the reason why I like Alexa the most out of the services right now is that it feels like the easiest to add new functionality too. Hopefully this will pave the way for more open ai assistants.

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