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Siri’s creators unveil Viv, their next generation AI Assistant

Apple’s Siri creators debut Viv, a AI driven personal assistant cum butler Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus took the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference here to demonstrate his latest creation. In a world-first, the public got the first look of Viv, the artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant that aims to lap rivals with its …

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Apps that put Amazon Alexa on your phone aren’t as good as they could be

Lexi and Roger can turn your phone into an Amazon Echo, but with limitations. As someone who recently bought—and was quickly enchanted by—Amazon’s Echo connected speaker, I’ve been thinking of ways to get its Alexa virtual assistant into more rooms of the house. Of course, I could just buy another Echo speaker, or some other …

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Viv, From the Creators of Siri, Isn’t Just Another Digital Assistant

Viv isn’t competing with the current lineup of virtual digital assistants. The self-coding software is instead striving to be the “intelligent interface to everything.” Since Apple’s introduction of Siri on Oct. 4, 2011, a handful of tech companies—Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook—have introduced competing artificial intelligence-guided digital assistants. But who better to outdo Siri than Siri’s …

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Now you can book travel by speaking to Kayak, via Amazon’s Alexa

The travel industry is talking a lot about voice-powered search these days, thanks in part to Alexa — a personal assistant developed by Amazon that uses artificial intelligence to understand simple voice commands. Skyscanner was the first travel search company to tap the power of Alexa, enabling consumers to search for flights by speaking. Today …

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Kayak’s New App Is a Passion Project Inspired by Amazon’s Alexa

Sometimes you just need passion, not loads of market research, to embark on your company’s next project. Kosmas Karadimitriou That was the case for Kayak, the Stamford, Conn.-based travel search engine owned by The Priceline Group, when the company’s head of data science in Boston expressed his love for the Amazon Echo in a LinkedIn post …

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