Apple's Former Siri Team Promises a Better Digital Assistant

Companies like Google (Google Now), Microsoft (Cortana) and Apple (Siri) are working furiously to offer digital assistants that mimic the role of a human assistant while delivering accurate results

But now company called Viv Labs believes it has the means to truly deliver on the kind of disembodied, ever-present voice catering to all your needs that could bring us closer to the ultimate software assistant depicted in movies like Her

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"You can [ask Google Now], ‘What is the population?’ of a city and it’ll bring up a chart and answer," Viv Labs co-founder Dag Kittlaus told Wired. "But you cannot say, 'What is the population of the city where Abraham Lincoln was born?'" Read more...

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