Siri-creator shows off first public demo of Viv, 'the intelligent interface for everything'

Voice-controlled assistance is seeing another evolution as it looks to prove its worth as the next shift in human-computer interaction. Today, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Siri creator Dag Kittlaus showed off the first public demo of Viv, an AI virtual system that aims to be "the intelligent interface for everything." In a live presentation that mentioned the word "paradigm" at least a dozen times, Kittlaus talked a bit about the next wave of computer interaction methods and how Viv would come to "breathe life into the inanimate objects of our life through conversation." The live demo went off without any major glitches despite the laser-focused specificity of the queries all uttered onstage in front of an audience of hundreds. Kittlaus began with a broad and oft-uttered question regarding what the weather was like today, but then quickly evolved his demands of Viv into ludicrously complex pointed inquiries.