Samsung's acquisition of Viv brings up questions about massive-scale AI

The "ubiquitous" part of AI may sound visionary or scary, depending on which way you look at it. But it is in any case the end game for Viv, according to Viv's (and previously, Siri's) founder, Dag Kittlaus. That's why Viv has chosen to partner with Samsung, the #1 vendor in mobile devices sold, also present in the market with a number of other devices ranging from TVs to refrigerators. Intelligence as a utility is Viv's motto, and they aim to make AI as ubiquitous as Wi-Fi or search. But besides being present on as many devices as possible, Viv also intends to build a developer ecosystem and utilize as many data sources as possible, and this is where it gets interesting from the data point of view. One of the things that allegedly makes Viv better than Siri is the ability to utilize more data sources.