Cognitive Code CEO, Leslie Spring, is seeing his world explode, in a good way. Since the emergence of Siri, the world has awoken to the realities of how artificial intelligence will take on a major role in the way we search and organize our lives. Spring, who's been building his company to provide the tools for an AI-powered space, is now seeing his work in voice/data recognition and computation taken seriously--very seriously. According to the company, SILVIA can interpret speech, text or other input, interact with appropriate applications or operating systems, all the while interacting with the user. What sets SILVIA apart from other AI, speech recognition or other products that she competes with is that the product is not necessarily server-based, operating from the cloud, as an app (yes, running natively on mobile devices too), as part of a network or, if you really want, from a server.

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