Virtual assistant technology is rapidly spreading on smartphones and devices like Amazon’s Echo.
But Silicon Valley is taking note of a less mainstream product called Viv that comes from two of the men who dreamed up Siri, before it was bought by Apple.
Viv co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus joined “CBS This Morning” to discuss the new generation of virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence.
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