It enables some really intelligent and powerful crowd-powered interfaces.
In my testing, this could provide a nice alternative to voice-powered interfaces like Alexa, Google Home or Siri.
These include companies from all over the world, with various business and industry focuses, including retail analytics, data mining, autonomous vehicle development, voice-powered interfaces, weather forecasting and medical imagery.
Whether that's getting Siri in your ear, using Google Assistant on your phone or talking to Alexa in your living room, it's clear that companies have acknowledged that voice-powered interfaces are going to be the next-generation interface.
It uses Alexa's voice-powered interface, so you just rattle them off and get a recipe.
The Siri-style voice-powered interface is news to me, but it should look familiar to users of Apple's iOS devices.
Samsung has a ways to catch up in the voice-powered interface race, but perhaps it still has some tricks up its sleeves.
In other car-related news, researchers hacked a Tesla Model S. 5. Lucas Matney wrote about six killer Xbox One announcements Microsoft made, including a new Windows 10-powered interface.
Samsung's purchase of Viv, then, might be less about creating a voice-powered assistant to rival Apple or Google's offerings and more about a voice-powered interface that remains the same across all of its devices, from phones to home hubs to doorknobs to refrigerators.
As a consequence, in the age of AI-powered personalized interfaces, the news organizations don't anymore get to define what's real news, or, even more importantly, what's truthful or trustworthy.
In addition to new partner Postmates, Ford will be testing further with existing partners Lyft and Domino's, and already it's gleaned some insights from the latter two, including learning that many of its early users of the Domino's autonomous delivery service say "bye" to the driverless car and enjoy interacting with its voice powered instructions interface.
