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Samsung Galaxy S8 to Debut 'Viv', the AI Assistant From the Creators of Siri

Roller said:
With all their resources and time, Apple should be leading the virtual assistant race by now, but they're not. Siri is better than it was a few years ago, but it's still frustrating some of the time. Having Siri execute a web search in response to a question is only marginally helpful, and it's useless if I'm in a situation where I can't look at my phone.
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I would also add that having to be 100% online to use Siri at all is really dumb. I often find myself in no-service situations where I simply want to know what time it is, or other LOCAL things (set reminders, etc) and Siri simply won't work. At all. So dumb.
 
Note because of this AI thing but the S8 will be my next phone. There are no other Android phones that TO ME, can compare to what Samsung phones bring. I love my S7 Edge and Note 5.
 
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Good move for Samsung. They will surely leapfrog Apple with Viv. Apple needs to get their heads out of their own asses and focus on improving their services like Siri and iCloud.
 
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StevieD100 said:
How can something I have never used and moreover have no intention of ever using die? It was never alive in the first place.
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True. It was never alive because the user did not use it? Was the user alive by any chance?
Siri is useful for many many things and probably crap at many other things. I personally do use it everyday. But your comment does not surprise me. I know people who spend over £600 on a device they only use it to make and receive calls.
 
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I kind of hope they wreck Siri with this. I get the sense that Apple didn't want to let the Siri team innovate too much so they bailed, started another company doing what they thought Siri really should be able to do, and now a competitor owns that better version. I love Apple, but it really needs to get it's butt kicked right now because it's too comfortable with 104% of the industry profits. Usually Apple does it's best work when it's behind. They need some more motivation. Google can talk about their AI all day long, but at the end of the day the only real competitor, at least prior to this train wreck of a quarter, was Samsung. Ultimately Apple competes against them.
 
GLS said:
So, Samsung just nuked their existing sales of Galaxy line in the meantime?

The Osbourne Effect in full display.
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If you are going to get sassy about it, at least get the name right. The Osbourne Effect would be about Ozzy. "Osborne" was the computer company.

Besides that this is just software. It would probably run on earlier devices. Just like Siri was able to run on the iPhone 4.... oh wait.


Mike
 
Red Oak said:
You must be using a different version of Siri than me
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I must be using the same version of Siri as him. Was just on the road yesterday, Siri failed completely to get me to a store 5 miles away in one of the largest most densely utilized vacation spots in the Eastern USA. No excuse for it taking 10 minutes to not get it right and force me to google maps. You cannot tell me less that 100K of people in Gatlinburg TN doesnt provide enough resources to entice apple to fix their damn maps.
 
Keniutek said:
... tell that to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s users ;)
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Lol. Straw man & moving goalposts are desperate measures!!!
We are talking about Android, not iOS.
One feature or app on Android can't be exclusive to a single device; as the OS runs on thousands of different hardware iterations.
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GLS said:
You think Samsung is going to allow this to run on older versions of their phones?

Kind of like Apple did with Siri on iPhones prior to the 4S?*

*meaning no way in hell?
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What part of "running their own company" confused you???
Clearly an app will hit Play Store with this functionality.
The only difference is: Galaxy 8 gets it baked into their Android version, likely w/ a dedicated hardware button, etc.
However, (quite obviously) ANY Android user will be able to download this & run it as a 3rd party app.
 
sbuttler77 said:
I don't think its a good idea for any company to be 100% dependant on their competitors tech. Google assistent more than anything shows Google may cut you off their life support from one day to the next. If I had any say in Samsung matters I would start putting serious money in Tizen or any other Android competitor out there. The Pixels are a paradigm shift.
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Just look at Apple and the whole google maps saga for the best example.

The safest hands are still your own.
 
Had IPhones 1 to 6S...yes, I had all of them. Switched to a Galaxy 6+ Edge, nice phone but the bloatware and slow OS updates bothered me. Got a Pixel XL a week ago, I doubt I'll be finding out what "Viv" can do.
 
I have a Samsung phone and have little faith Viv will be done properly by Samsung.

But you never know.
 
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macduke said:
I kind of hope they wreck Siri with this. I get the sense that Apple didn't want to let the Siri team innovate too much so they bailed, started another company doing what they thought Siri really should be able to do, and now a competitor owns that better version. I love Apple, but it really needs to get it's butt kicked right now because it's too comfortable with 104% of the industry profits. Usually Apple does it's best work when it's behind. They need some more motivation. Google can talk about their AI all day long, but at the end of the day the only real competitor, at least prior to this train wreck of a quarter, was Samsung. Ultimately Apple competes against them.
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I got that impression, too, after reading an interview with the founders of Siri on why they left Apple. They refused to spell it out but emphasized they left when Steve passed away. They implied that Steve got what they were trying to do but everyone left after him did not.
 
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blackcrayon said:
Works for me.
Just asked it to turn my lights off (about to leave for work), works great. I also ask it to play songs in the car. Works the vast majority of the time unless the artist has a very unusual name :)
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Siri works great for as well. I can ask "what movies are playing in San Francisco." And then get a list of movies and their times. Or while I'm driving say, "play Sneaker Pimps" and then a playlist of music starts playing on my car's radio. Or just say "play blues" and then a play list of blues music starts playing. Or "start a timer for 10 minutes" and it happens. Or "what's the weather" and I get a forecast for the day in the city I'm currently at. And on and on. Soon I'll have it integrated into my Home Automation system.

And that's all from using Siri on my Watch. I'm very pleased on how it has improved over the years.
 
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