New digital assistant Viv coming next week could beat out Siri, Cortana

Next week, a new digital assistant launches – and it's supposed to be the most powerful yet. It's called Viv, and it's been in the making for four years, according to an article at the Washington Post. Viv is the brainchild of the same engineers that created Siri, the digital assistant first introduced on Apple's iPhone 4S in 2011. Since then, tech companies have been scrambling to introduce the next big thing in artificial intelligence, from Microsoft's Cortana to Google Now. Yet, it seems that none have cracked the code to a true AI-centric future.